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.
Emerging Tech
Video: Intel Wants to Personalize the Internet of Things
You'll soon be able to connect more with the Internet of Things.
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.
Emerging Tech
A Space Elevator Has Been Patented to Take Astronauts 12 Miles off the Earth
The famed command “beam me up” could soon become more than just a geeky reference to Star Trek.
Digital Government
Here Are the Best TSA Yelp Reviews
Travelers have been very candid in their assessments.
Emerging Tech
Smithsonian Raises $700,000 on Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit
Now that’s some expensive dry cleaning.
Cybersecurity
What’s in the Ashley Madison Database Hackers Released Online?
Despite some initial skepticism about the veracity of the leak, researchers are now starting to agree it is real.
Digital Government
The Dos and Don'ts of Implementing Innovative Technology
Federal agencies face a whirlwind of distinct challenges when implementing innovative IT, which they have to learn to overcome, says one industry expert.
Modernization
A Digital Rat Brain Could Power Future Smartphones
Rather than a traditional computer, these computer chips are designed to work like neurons.
Emerging Tech
Time to Hide: Google’s Humanoid Robot Can Now Walk Outside on its Own
The robots are coming.
Digital Government
Nextgov Prime 2015 Keynote Speakers Announced
Cybersecurity and government data leaders to headline daylong event.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Researchers Will Wage Counterattack on Crippling ‘DDoS’ Cyber Strikes
Stability of agency operations, banking, online gaming and many other daily activities are at stake here.
Emerging Tech
QTS Sets Eyes on Federal Market with Carpathia Acquisition
The Kansas-based company, which already services many federal customers through 12 nationwide data centers, spent $326 million acquiring the cloud services provider.
Modernization
State Department Looks to Outfit Workers with 'the Most Contemporary' Mobile Devices
This is no small task considering the agency currently provides 36,000 mobile devices to its employees stationed in almost every country in the world.
Digital Government