Digital Government

Computers Can Predict Schizophrenia Based on How a Person Talks

A new study finds an algorithmic word analysis is flawless at determining whether a person will have a psychotic episode.

Emerging Tech

USPS Official: First Priority with Internet of Things is Cost Cutting

Because Postal Service doesn't receive taxpayer money for its operating expenses, it must make a solid business case for each new program.

Emerging Tech

NOAA and NASA Plan to Send a Drone Right Into Tropical Storm Erika

NOAA wants to use unmanned aircraft to observe the skies and advance the country's weather forecasting abilities, said NOAA lead systems engineer John Coffey.

Emerging Tech

Microsoft Says Its Facial Recognition Can Tell Identical Twins Apart

A new program called Windows Hello allows users to sign into their devices with biometric authentication.

Emerging Tech

DISA Issues Pentagon-Friendly Cloud Computing Guide

The guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” planning to move an existing information system from a physical environment to a virtualized cloud environment.

Emerging Tech

Pentagon Debunks DOD-VA Interoperability Myth

“There is not a big interoperability problem with the VA and DOD today,” according to Frank Kendall, DOD undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.

Digital Government

White House Looking for Help on Personalized Medicine Technology

The administration is collecting suggestions from the general public about improving personalized medicine.

Emerging Tech

Supper Club on Mars

Before people can colonize the Red Planet, they have to figure out what they'll eat once they get there.

Modernization

Future Technologies Must Be Designed to Free Us From our Screen Addiction

Every digital experience is self-aware, tweaking and customizing itself to be better, more enticing—to suck users further in and increase its all-important “active users” metric.

Emerging Tech

Infographic: Inside a NASA Rocket Engine

The RS-25 rocket engine will one day hopefully help get us to Mars.

Emerging Tech

NASA Wants to Turn Human Waste into Plastic and Vitamins

When tomorrow’s astronauts feel the call of nature, they may be engaging in an act of creation.

Cybersecurity

Widespread Use of Yammer Social Network at VA Ran Afoul of Agency Rules, Watchdog Says

Department CIO implicated in a probe of unapproved and insecure uses of the social network’s free version.

Emerging Tech

The Actual NASA Technologies Matt Damon Will Use in the Space Survival Film 'The Martian'

"The Martian" is written in the form of a log by a fictional NASA astronaut, Mark Watney, who’s stranded on Mars after his team evacuates the planet during a brutal dust storm, believing him to be dead.

Emerging Tech

$11 Billion Next-Gen Weather Satellite Launch Delayed

“Schedule risks” found by NOAA, NASA and main contractor Lockheed Martin have slipped the launch again to sometime in fall, likely October.

Digital Government

Chuck Schumer Wants to Set Up No-Drone Zones Around Airports

The New York senator cited a recent uptick in drone sightings near commercial airliners to advocate for quick action.