Digital Government
System Update: Pentagon Upgrading 4 Million Devices to Windows 10
The news comes almost three months after DOD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen – with Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s blessing – put the Pentagon’s components on notice to prepare for the move.
Emerging Tech
Video: This 360-Degree Treadmill Will Make Your Virtual Reality Experience More Immersive
Strap in and explore a new reality.
Digital Government
This 3-D Printer Creates Human Muscles and Tissues That Could Actually Replace Real Ones
Unlike with most printers, which put down layers of molten plastic or metal, Wake Forest’s printer lays down what are called hydrogels—water-based solutions containing human cells.
Digital Government
The Military’s Superfast Bird Drone
The Defense Department’s mad scientists show how to make superfast, light-weight drones.
Digital Government
What Makes People Actually Respond to Your Emails
Write your messages short and sweet—but not too short or too sweet.
Emerging Tech
Google Is Reportedly Working on an Actual Virtual Reality Headset
Currently, the company’s only foray into VR has been the Cardboard—a literal piece of cardboard that sells for about $20, which users can strap any smartphone into.
Modernization
Video: How to Turn Your Regular Watch Into a Smartwatch
Now, even analog watches can become a part of the Internet of Things.
Digital Government
DARPA Awards Contracts for See-Through-Walls Technology
The emerging tech agency appears to have made at least two awards for that program.
Ideas
Encryption Debate: The Issue Isn’t Strong Crypto; It’s Easy Crypto
The encryption debate is poised to intensify this year.
Emerging Tech
NOAA’s Next-Gen Environmental Satellite One Step Closer to Launch
Next up is the environmental testing phase.
Emerging Tech
NASA's New Posters and the Retro Travel Ads That Inspired Them
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s new collection of throwback images are a dreamy celebration of technology and human curiosity.
Digital Government
Female Coders Are Rated More Highly Than Men—Except When People Know They’re Women
This only adds to the avalanche of research on gender discrimination within the technology sector.
Emerging Tech
Inside NASA's Isolation Chamber
For these NASA crew members, 148 cubic meters is all they will know for 30 days.
Digital Government
When Computers Started Beating Chess Champions
On this day 20 years ago, a machine defeated a sitting world champion for the first time.
Emerging Tech
Drones 101: What You Need to Know
There are a few things you have to do before taking flight.
Digital Government
What Obama’s Air Force Budget Request Says About the Future of Warfare
The Defense Department budget request is full of high tech-items aimed at countering the capabilities of technologically advanced adversaries.
Emerging Tech
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal Drivers According to the US Government
The decision is not itself a law, but rather a clarification on how existing laws will be interpreted in the future.
Emerging Tech
Obama's Budget Would Grow Federal R&D By 4 Percent
The president's 2017 fiscal year budget boosts total research and development funding to $152 billion.
Emerging Tech
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
Digital Government