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
IBM’s Watson Should Run for President
it might be the perfect time for an actual robot to enter the race.
Artificial Intelligence
The Army Has Made a Robot Cockroach
Biologically inspired robot bugs could be the next big thing in intelligence collection.
Digital Government
Special Ops Wants Wearable Sensors Without Blind Spots
SOCOM is seeking a wearable system that can correct the error, known as “parallax,” which occurs combining visual feeds from offset sensors.
Artificial Intelligence
Should We Fear an AI Arms Race?
Five reasons the benefits of defense-related artificial intelligence research outweigh the risks—for now.
Digital Government
Video: This NASA Scientist Tracks the Dangerous Asteroids in Earth's Orbit
The first line of planetary defense is a physicist in California.
Emerging Tech
What’s More Difficult Than Building Robotic Hands? Building Robotic Fingers.
These digits can lift fragile objects, even if they're heavy.
Emerging Tech
You’re Not Alone: Even the Obamas Can’t Get Good Wi-Fi
The President says he hopes to fix the “whole tech thing” for “the next group of folks” who will move in.
Emerging Tech
Speed Dialer Aims to Profit off IRS' Terrible Customer Service
Software helps route paying customer to a breathing person within 1 to 6 minutes at an IRS call center notorious for its lengthy hold times.
Digital Government