Emerging Tech
These 4-D-Printed, Shape-Shifting Flowers Might One Day Save Your Life
A step beyond 3-D printing.
Digital Government
Video: This Vending Machine Is Watching You
It knows who you are and what candy you crave.
Emerging Tech
Buying Cloud Services: What the U.S. Can Learn from the UK
British government agencies have access to a comprehensive listing of cloud service suppliers available through pre-vetted vendors working on six-month acquisition cycles.
Emerging Tech
Industry Group Weighs In: FedRAMP Needs Fixing
The industry group’s recommendations mirror efforts announced by the FedRAMP office last week, which focused on speeding up authorizations as well as increasing transparency.
Emerging Tech
Video: How Do We Make Rules for Self-Driving Cars?
A trip to Google headquarters can hopefully provide some answers.
Digital Government
Facebook Is Giving Users a New Way to Access it on the 'Dark Web'
Facebook’s Tor site is one way for people to access their accounts when the regular Facebook site is blocked by governments.
Emerging Tech
The Next Generation of Drones Is Actually Living up to the Hype
The drones on show at this year’s CES point toward a near future where drones are as easy to use as smartphones—and potentially as ubiquitous.
Digital Government
FDA Wants to Protect High-Tech Medical Devices From Hackers
In new draft guidance, FDA tells device manufacturers to take responsibility for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Modernization
What the U.S. East Coast's Massive Snow Storm Looks Like From Space
And what it looks like from the street.
Emerging Tech
Q&A with Matt Goodrich: How FedRAMP Gives Customers What They Want
GSA is building very technical policies based on what its customers want, not developing policies and forcing its customers to comply with them.
Digital Government
ISIS Is Destroying Cultural Artifacts. Here’s How Programmers and 3-D Printers Fight Back
It took the militant group only a few months to destroy hundreds of years of history.
Digital Government
Infographic: Global Government Priorities for 2016
Overcoming a tight budget is a popular goal for many.
Ideas
Can Government Outpace the Private Sector in Innovation?
At its heart, digital government leadership is based on the very real and powerful idea that data is an invaluable strategic asset and a critical new natural resource for government -- the “oil” of our time.
Emerging Tech
Robots Could Make the Supreme Court More Transparent
Computer models can determine the authorship of unsigned legal decisions with startling accuracy.
Emerging Tech
Amazon's Delivery Drones: More Like Horses Than Cars
Amazon’s quest for 30-minute delivery by drone doesn’t just face an uphill battle with regulators. Consumers are skeptical, too.
Digital Government
Can New Tech Improve Gun Safety?
For the first time in a century, gun deaths are poised to surpass car deaths last year.
Cybersecurity
Here’s the Pentagon Policy for Going Undercover in Cyberspace
Most of the directions for this sly approach to cozying up with the enemy for information extraction are redacted, but the glossary offers some understanding of the tactics in play.
Emerging Tech
Video: Running Low on Ink? Don't Worry, the Printer Can Order More
A new way to think about the Internet of Things.
Emerging Tech