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
Two Men Were Busted for Flying a Drone in the Most Restricted Airspace in America
A word of caution to drone-owners: Don’t fly your UAV near the White House.
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
Video: What You Need to Know About This New Speed Camera Technology
Watch out and maybe slow down a little.
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.
Emerging Tech
Video: What is NASA Investing in to Get Us to Mars?
It will take more than just guts to get us to the Red Planet.
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
Video: Inside Google's Self-Driving Car Prototype
Don't underestimate this tiny robotic car.
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