Emerging Tech

Video: Watch These Battle Drones Cage Fight

What began as a military technology has exploded into a multimillion-dollar market that will top $90 billion within a decade.

Emerging Tech

The (Hypothetical) President of Silicon Valley

Elon Musk is the tech world's favorite potential future candidate.

Digital Government

When Military Robots Can Predict Your Next Move

New research may enable robotic armed guards — or just help self-driving cars get through a four-way stop

Digital Government

How the USGS Detects Earthquakes Using Twitter

And learned to separate background noise from the “wow, that was an earthquake!” tweet.

Emerging Tech

The FBI Just Got 'Hyperconverged' for $28 Million

The new unclassified virtual desktop infrastructure will support 55,000 users.

Digital Government

Join a Drone Over the Indonesian Fires Smoking Out an Entire Region

A strong El Niño climate phenomenon has created particularly dry conditions and led to fast-spreading fires, all captured by drones and satellites.

Emerging Tech

Government’s First Open Source PaaS Service Comes to Market

PaaS puts more security onus on cloud services providers than IaaS offerings do -- and that’s attractive for government customers who often lack information security expertise or have reduced budgets.

Digital Government

What WIll Happen when Humans and Robots Share Roads?

Safety may actually worsen before dramatically improving.

Emerging Tech

White House Renews Bet on the Creativity of the Crowd

On the fifth anniversary of Challenge.gov, the White House announced nine new innovation contests, open to the public.

Digital Government

Researchers Are Developing a Test to Detect All Known Viruses in Your Body, Even at Low Levels

To develop the test, a research team indexed the unique DNA or RNA sequences of every known virus to affect not only humans but animals, too—some 2 million in all.

Digital Government

The Government Is Testing Military-Grade Technology to Keep Drones Away From Airports

With the agency’s final rule for commercial drones still more than half a year out, FAA is responding to an increasing number of “close calls” between airliners and drones.

Digital Government

CIA Social Media Team: We Use Twitter to 'Explain Our Mission'

The small team is more interested in using the platform to push out historical tidbits than having conversations with individual users.

Emerging Tech

VA's Allin Promises ‘Go Big or Go Home’ Approach to Customer Service

A mediocre attitude toward serving the veterans who valiantly served the country is not acceptable, says VA's Chief Veteran Experience Officer Tom Allin.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX Booked its First Moon Mission—and it Uses Ridesharing

Designed by nonprofit SpaceIL, the unmanned dishwasher-sized probe will attempt to land on the moon, transmit digital pictures and video back to earth, and “hop” 500 meters across its surface.

Emerging Tech

The 3 Things Humans Will Always Do Better Than Robots

The robots are not coming, they’re already here. They’re just not sentient… yet.

Emerging Tech

Census Packs Plan for 2020 Count With New Tech

On Tuesday, the bureau released its 2020 Census Operational Plan, which centers on new technological techniques and cost savings.