Modernization
Uber Introduces Facial Scans to Reduce Driver Fraud
For all its improvements over traditional taxis, Uber’s safety features have been far from perfect.
Digital Government
This Technology Is Designed to Predict Big Earthquakes and Save Lives. So Why Can't It Get Funding?
Last week, in less than four days, the world had three earthquakes at 7.0 magnitude or more.
Cybersecurity
Ex-Hacker: If You Get Hacked, Sue Somebody
The days of software companies having built-in legal “liability protections” are about to come to an end, one expert says.
Emerging Tech
Video: Inside the World's Most Secretive Startup
Magic Leap's virtual reality system may change computing entirely.
Digital Government
New European Law May Force Companies to Hire Data Privacy Experts
Tech, health care, drug and financial services companies that process large amounts of data will become particular hotbeds for hiring.
Digital Government
Facebook for Trees: The Forest Service’s Quest to Make a Tree Database More User-Friendly
The agency maintains a database that includes various characteristics of some 19 million trees over some 350,000-plus plots of land
Emerging Tech
These Robots Act Differently When You're Around
The machines of the future will tailor their behavior to humans—and even individual personalities.
Modernization
Video: Which Smartphone Voice Assistant Sounds Most Human?
Are hard-to-understand robot voices a thing of smartphones past?
Emerging Tech
Flying Cars? The Evolution of the Automobile in 5 Steps
How driverless vehicles could change meetings, manufacturing, safety, and more
Ideas
Why the Nation Needs to Use Technology to Up the Ante on Immigration Screening
What's needed is to throw out decades-old reliance on government database and watch-list screening in favor of a more technologically evolved process.
Cybersecurity
Video: Why You Should Uninstall QuickTime for Windows, ASAP
Find a new way to watch videos.
Cybersecurity
Do Americans Support Weakening Encryption? It Might Depend When You Ask.
After the Paris terrorist attacks, most Americans sided with the feds.
Emerging Tech
Should We Feed the Trolls?
When it comes to reducing online harassment, deeper social change could have a bigger impact than fighting back one jerk at a time.
Digital Government
Pentagon: F-35 Will Still Fly, Despite Software Flaw
Officials say the plane can fly without the aircraft’s enormously complex diagnostics system.
Digital Government
NOAA Pushes Forward with Commercial Weather Data Pilot
The initiative will act as a test for future commercial satellite efforts.
Emerging Tech
Meet the Scientist Helping the Pentagon Build Solar-Powered Tents
UCF is one of many groups partnering with DOD on hi-tech textiles.
Emerging Tech
Your Web Searches Are Probably Going to Be Powered by Wind
Corporations are no longer waiting to buy power from utilities: they’re going straight to the source.
Digital Government