Emerging Tech
All of Google’s—er, Alphabet’s—Companies and Products from A to Z
Google has announced it will be folding itself into a larger company, called Alphabet. Here's what that entails.
Emerging Tech
NASA Wants to Know if Open Innovation Challenges Are Working
The agency is looking for research on ways to crowdsource, such as through competitions.
Digital Government
Federal CTO: Government Should Take an Active Role in Innovation
On Monday, Megan Smith talked White House digital innovation during the second annual LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C.
Modernization
Computer Scientists Invented a Way to Turn Your Skin Into a Mobile Touch Pad
A new product called iSkin uses silicon rubber and pressure-sensitive sensors to create an elastic film.
Emerging Tech
Why This Team Is Teaching Robots to Play Jazz
This is the future that researchers, funded by DARPA, are hoping to produce.
Emerging Tech
Video: How 3D Printing Will Literally Make the Future
From health care to housing, it's everywhere.
Emerging Tech
Why Would Anyone Quit Their Jobs at Dream Companies Like Facebook or Google?
Life at a tech giant isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
Emerging Tech
How Uber Could Contribute to the Future of Spycraft
DNI has quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified 5-year roadmap charting the future of data analysis.
Emerging Tech
Will Your Facebook Friends Make You a Credit Risk?
The social-media giant just patented a system that can calculate credit-worthiness based on your friends’ credit scores.
Emerging Tech
The Robots Taking Your Job Could Get You Killed
Automating processes at chemical and pharmaceutical plants could save money, but at what cost to safety?
Cybersecurity
Video: Hackers Expose Security Flaws in Cars and Guns
Cyberattacks and bullets could be a very dangerous combination.
Digital Government
The Exoskeleton's Hidden Burden
A growing number of companies are developing assistive technologies to help disabled people walk—but these devices can distract from infrastructure changes that would make cities more disability-friendly.
Emerging Tech
'Unconventional' Ideas Wanted by DARPA Office
The office is on the hunt for game-changing advances in the world of IT, according to its recently posted Broad Agency Announcement.
Digital Government
Why Aren't There Nanobot Doctors Yet?
Scientists have long said that tiny robots would soon be able to conduct surgery and deliver drugs deep inside the body. Here’s why they’re still not a reality.
Digital Government
VA Secretary: We Need to Simplify Website for Veterans
Veterans health sites should be renamed "Veterans.gov," the secretary suggested.
Emerging Tech
Video: Curiosity Rover Celebrates 3 Years on Mars
It's been several years and a lot of mineral samples.
Emerging Tech
How Much Is Your Attention on the Internet Really Worth?
The future of morality, at every Internet user's fingertips
Cybersecurity
CYBERCOM Wants Secretive Cyber Arms Dealer To Hack the Pentagon
Endgame, known for crafting offensive cyberweapons, has a pending contract to provide tools for finding holes in military networks.
Emerging Tech
Postal Service's Futuristic Vision for the Internet of Things
The "Internet of Postal Things" paints a picture of post office systems that auto-fill paperwork for customers as they walk in, delivery vehicles that monitor themselves for maintenance, and sensors that notify package recipients upon delivery.
Emerging Tech