Emerging Tech
Video: How Amazon Gets Your Order to You
An army of robots is behind that Amazon Prime shipment.
Digital Government
Attention, Would-Be Astronauts: NASA Now Accepting Online Applications
Prepare to face some stiff competition.
Modernization
Star Wars’ R2-D2: The Original Mobile Device
The bleep-blooping droid from "Star Wars" helped shape people's perceptions of how machines can be helpers.
Digital Government
Feds Will Require $5 Registration Fee for Drones
Drone companies are expecting big sales for the holidays, but the government just gave them a lump of coal.
Emerging Tech
Algorithms Will Manage Trillions of Dollars in a Few Years—Thanks to Millennials
Robo-advising—which relies on complex algorithms to manage wealth—is an up-and-coming area of financial technology.
Emerging Tech
Robots Are Now Fighting Fires in Australia
These fire-fighters can shoot out mists of water or foam from 60 meters away.
Emerging Tech
Video: Are Self-Driving Cars Really Safer?
Research shows that automated vehicles might not be accident free.
Digital Government
Tokyo Police Use Nets to Capture Rogue Drones
The idea of catching drones this way isn’t new, and Tokyo’s police chose the method after reviewing various anti-drone efforts underway in other nations.
Artificial Intelligence
Meet the Military-Funded AI that Learns as Fast as a Human
Today, it recognizes handwriting; tomorrow, it may vastly improve the military’s surveillance and targeting efforts.
Emerging Tech
The Promise and Peril of Universal Internet
Google’s audacious plan to provide “balloon-powered Internet for everyone” is gathering momentum. But can the tech giant be trusted?
Emerging Tech
Video: How Do You Build a Death Star? A NASA Engineer Explains
It wouldn't be created by launching pieces from a planet, which is how NASA built the International Space Station.
Emerging Tech
3 Things We Learned This Week from the White House’s Top Tech Officials
U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott and Thomas Kalil, deputy director for policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, dropped a few notable soundbites and policy snippets.
Digital Government
The US Government Wants IBM to Build Quantum Computers for It
These machines could be used to develop new drugs, crack codes, or potentially even create true artificial intelligence.
Emerging Tech
Video: Car Crash Testing Goes Virtual
Computer-aided design is keeping us safe on the roads in new ways.
Emerging Tech
Trump Wants to Shut Down the Internet
It was designed to survive a nuclear war and not to rely upon a single system, so “shutting it down” would take a gargantuan effort.
Ideas
3 Ways to Maximize Your ROI on Internet of Things
The challenge for federal IoT is less about the devices themselves, and more about the IT resources needed to manage, share, analyze and ultimately derive real mission value from the IoT data explosion.
Emerging Tech
In-Q-Tel Invests in Firm That Says It Can Retrieve Evidence from Encrypted Devices
In-Q-Tel, the IC’s technology investment arm, did not disclose how much funding it will provide the Canadian-based Magnet Forensics.
Emerging Tech
Which 'Star Wars' Droid Would Be Helpful on a NASA Space Mission?
These might be the droids we're looking for.
Emerging Tech