Emerging Tech
Video: A Look at the Impressive Tech Inside Super Bowl 50
The Levi's Stadium boasts 400 miles of cables, 700 security cameras and Wi-Fi boxes placed every 100 seats to ensure 70,000 attendees will be able to connect with their smartphones.
Emerging Tech
Join Nextgov and Defense One on Feb. 10: Tech Modernization in Focus
David Bray and Frank Konieczny will be two of several featured speakers at the event titled, “Transforming Defense and Federal IT for a Modern World."
Digital Government
New Microchip Could Increase Military Intelligence Powers
A military-funded breakthrough in microchips opens the door to portable deep learning.
Emerging Tech
This NASA Spacecraft Will Set Sail Propelled Entirely by Sunlight
NASA hopes it can reach the edge of the universe in 20 years.
Digital Government
Video: How Tracking Technology and Deep Data Are Transforming Football
Can big data help you win the Super Bowl?
Digital Government
The Innovative Suitcase Lab That Could Fight the Zika Virus
The whole thing weighs less than 44 pounds and is operated with a laptop.
Ideas
What’s Missing in the Encryption, Privacy and Security Debate
There are four key considerations surrounding the secure design of mobile devices we should keep in mind in both a government and private sector context.
Modernization
Video: This Device Connects You Even in the Middle of Nowhere
Wireless in the wilderness.
Emerging Tech
More Than a Third of Americans Would Undergo Iris Scans for Better Government Services
About 67 percent of respondents would share their cellphone numbers with the federal government if it meant personalized services such as expedited passport processing, but far fewer -- 35 percent -- would offer iris scans.
Digital Government
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Is Still Riddled with Bugs
The Pentagon’s top testing official has weighed and measured the F-35 and found it wanting.
Emerging Tech
This Will be the Year of the Silicon Valley Super Bowl
Tech companies have weaved themselves into the Super Bowl experience, by enabling new state-of-the-art technology at Levi’s Stadium.
Emerging Tech
Here's How Many Miles Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Actually Driven
The tech giant announced its driverless car program was simulating driving 3 million miles a day.
Cybersecurity
Could a More Secure Online Browser Protect Background Check Hack Victims?
Richard “Hollis” Helms, a 45-year-veteran of the intelligence community, has a tool he says might stem the potential bleeding of national secrets.
Emerging Tech
How Do You Govern Data in the Internet of Everything?
By 2020, more than 200 billion sensors will produce data on everything from human hearts to heavy construction equipment to ocean seafloors.
Digital Government
Microgrids, Panels and Geothermal Heat Pumps: The High-Tech Renewable Energy Powering Tribal Communities
Moving beyond the traditional power grid.
Emerging Tech
The Sport of the Future Has Arrived: Droneboarding
It’s sort of like kitesurfing or wakeboarding, but for the 21st century.
Emerging Tech
Google's Latest Experiment: Delivering 5G Internet from Solar-Powered Drones
The tech giant is serious about building the data infrastructure of the future.
Emerging Tech
Coding Bootcamps Are Getting So Competitive, There’s Now a $3,000 Prep Program
As the landscape matures, coding schools are gaining reputations akin to colleges—with the most coveted touting higher starting salaries among their grads.
Emerging Tech
Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus
Time is running out on the agency’s most ambitious science mission in generations, and that means no stopping for anything—not even a historic blizzard.
Emerging Tech