Modernization

Video: What Are Your Tech Resolutions for 2016?

Resolve to be smarter about your technology in this new year.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

Why NASA Really Wants to Find Life on Mars

Hint: It’s not little green men.

  • By Michael Tabb, Quartz
Modernization

Apple Wants to Let You Make Payments Through Texts, Phone Calls and Emails

The tech giant filed a patent for the technology earlier this month.

  • By Ian Kar, Quartz
Cybersecurity

In a First, NSA Advertises Opportunities on Monster.com of Federal Contracting

The agency posted a special notice to FedBizOpps.gov, right before the holidays, advertising work for small companies that develop "innovative technologies."

  • By Aliya Sternstein
Emerging Tech

Disney Is Working on a Gravity-Defying Robot that Can Scale Walls

This takes the term “all-terrain” to a whole other level.

  • By Alice Truong, Quartz
Modernization

How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice

A recent dustup over smart light bulbs illuminates a larger problem.

  • By Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Elon Musk Is Right About the Threat of AI, but He’s Dangerously Wrong About Why

Could humanity learn to live with AI?

  • By Quora, Quartz
Emerging Tech

18F's Agile BPA Halted Once More By New Protest

Days after GSA announced it had resolved protests and that activity on the BPA could resume, another protest was filed with GAO.

  • By Mohana Ravindranath
Ideas

Driverless Cars: Here’s What the Obama Administration Should Do Next

On Dec. 4, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which plans for a future of driverless cars

  • By Gary Shapiro
Modernization

More Americans Use Mobile Devices to Access the Internet

Roughly 33 percent of Americans today do not have broadband service at home.

  • By Amy X. Wang, Quartz
Ideas

Trending in Government: Robotic Process Automation

Any high-volume, high-touch, business-rule-driven, repeatable process is a candidate for RPA.

  • By Teresa A. Weipert
Emerging Tech

Ford Reportedly in Talks with Google to Build More Self-Driving Cars

Ford’s current CEO, Mark Fields, said he believes fully autonomous vehicles will be on the roads within four years.

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz
Emerging Tech

Elon Musk Triumphs: SpaceX Vertically Launches Orbital Rocket

The company has finally achieved the goal it has pursued for years.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

The Latest SpaceX Launch Could be Make or Break for Elon Musk

Since the company’s June to mission the International Space Station ended in an explosive failure, SpaceX has been forced to delay its commercial manifest, costing it and its clients millions of dollars.

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz
Digital Government

DuckDuckGo, the Search Engine That Doesn’t Track its Users, Grew More Than 70% This Year

But it has also struggled to crack the mainstream.

  • By Dan Frommer, Quartz
Modernization

Video: How to Track All of Your Holiday Packages

Be more efficient than Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

NASA’s About to Have Its Biggest Budget in a Decade

The space agency will be able to spend $19.3 bil­lion next year, ac­cord­ing to the budget, an in­crease of more than $1.3 bil­lion over 2015 fund­ing levels.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Cybersecurity

Cyber Bill Boosts DHS Cyberthreat Sharing but Critics Fear Backdoor to NSA Surveillance

The $1.1 trillion spending bill creates an instant information-sharing regime housed at DHS.

  • By Aliya Sternstein
Emerging Tech

Why the Intelligence Community Wants in On Quantum Computing

IARPA wants IBM -- and, soon, other bidders -- to develop the building blocks for a quantum computer.

  • By Mohana Ravindranath
Emerging Tech

FITARA: How IT Reform Became ‘Sexy’

FITARA is finally beginning to get the kind of attention from Congress, overseers and the public that one might expect of an area in which the government spends upward of $80 billion annually.

  • By Frank Konkel
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