Emerging Tech
These New Solar Panels Can Create Electricity from Raindrops
This could prove to be a significant step toward creating solar cells that work even when the sun isn’t shining.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Makes Historic Landing
Falcon 9’s successful mission shows how the cost of space access is headed down as reusable rockets head up.
Cybersecurity
'Hey Siri, Call in an Airstrike': Army Seeks to Outfit Soldiers With Voice-Controlled Gear
To ensure cybersecurity and national security do not become mutually exclusive, the Army is testing various biometric identification methods that can withstand battle terrain.
Digital Government
Navy Christens First Robot Ghost Ship
Autonomous vessels like this submarine hunter will play a growing role in future naval missions and will soon crowd the seas.
Digital Government
Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem
Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.
Digital Government
Can Google Build a City that Works Like the Internet?
Creating physical urban spaces that run on data—in ways that resemble the connectivity of the internet itself—has been a dream of Larry Page’s since he publicly floated the idea of “Google 2.0” in 2014.
Emerging Tech
Video: Here's What Riding a Virtual Reality Coaster Looks Like
Making loop-the-loops more intense, one headset at a time.
Emerging Tech
Can Bitcoin Save the World? Probably Not
The cryptocurrency is a powerful tool for early adopters and middle-class entrepreneurs, but it may not provide the opportunities in the developing world that its advocates claim.
Digital Government
Video: Astronauts Aboard the ISS Answer All the Weird Space Questions You Normally Just Google
"Do astronauts really wear diapers?"
Emerging Tech
MIT Scientists Create Hydraulic Robot from Single 3-D Print
The robots are made up of solid and liquid parts, which could have big implications on how we design robots to interact with humans in the future.
Cybersecurity
Ex-NSA Deputy Director Wants Coded Messages for All
However, techies, entrepreneurs and the feds should first be hashing out its application, to defuse tensions over the prospect of coded messages for all, Chris Inglis said.
Digital Government
Defense Secretary Pitches Austin Techies on Pentagon Work
Ash Carter continues his outreach tour to robotics labs and startup centers.
Digital Government
Google Wants to Call Drones to Medical Emergencies at the Push of a Button
A new patent awarded to Google outlines a device that can call for a drone to fly in with specific medical equipment.
Emerging Tech
Can the Internet of Things Change Economic Inequality? Commerce Wants to Know
he Department of Commerce wants your input on the Internet of Things.
Emerging Tech
Video: Inside the Medieval City Where the Future of Computing Is Built
Move over, Silicon Valley: These 2,300 researchers are responsible for your favorite gadgets of tomorrow.
Modernization
From Phonographs to iPhones: An American History of Gadget-Buying
As seen in seven decades of government statistics.
Digital Government
We’re Closer to a Future Where We Can 3-D Print Anything
We were promised sneakers and dinner at the push of a button, and instead we got tchotchkes.
Emerging Tech
Video: An Inflatable Bouncy Castle in Space
This gives new meaning to the term "Moon Bounce."
Modernization
Apple Turns 40
Forty years ago today, two college dropouts decided to start selling cobbled-together computers out of a garage in California because they couldn’t afford the ones on the market.
Emerging Tech