Digital Government
FDA Approves First 3-D Printed Drug
Pharmaceutical company Aprecia says 3-D printing will allow doctors to know the medicine they’re prescribing delivers the exact dose intended.
Emerging Tech
NASA Searches for Link Between Electromagnetic Pulses and Earthquakes
Last week, NASA launched a challenge to determine whether there is a connection between electromagnetic signals and earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
Watchdog: Privacy Laws Aren't Keeping Up with Facial Recognition Technology
In a new report, GAO warns consumers that existing federal privacy laws do not expressly limit how businesses can use images of their faces.
Emerging Tech
Can Europe Be a Leading Tech Power?
Andrus Ansip, Europe's Digital Market Commissioner hopes to make that happen.
Emerging Tech
VA Embraces Virtual Care, Testing Bluetooth Hearing Aids
Gradually, more VA services will be delivered virtually, Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said during a recent keynote.
Emerging Tech
Video: Curious about Windows 10? Here Are the Features You Need to Know
Microsoft's latest offering could make the workday a breeze.
Emerging Tech
White House Gets Superserious about Supercomputing
A new order directs agencies within the federal government to work together -- and with the private sector -- on high-performance computers.
Digital Government
There's Now an X-Ray Pill You Can Swallow
This new development could make important medical procedures like colonoscopies a little less invasive.
Finance
Why State and Local Governments Are Increasingly Embracing GitHub
By sharing code, jurisdictions can cut IT development costs and better use resources. But it’s “a matter of cultural change.”
Cybersecurity
Bill to Let DHS Monitor Internet Traffic on Government Systems Advances
The federal data security upgrade would the agency closer to the center of cybersecurity operations.
Emerging Tech
House Talks 'Internet of Things,' Data Privacy
Representatives discussed how data could be both useful to consumers -- and also a potentially risky asset.
Emerging Tech
Why Science Students Need to Think Outside the Lab
Many students miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world.
Emerging Tech
10 Years After Katrina, NOAA Preps for Launch of Powerful New Weather Satellites
The first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series will produce “30 times the data at five times the rate and twice the resolution” of the current crop of geostationary satellites.
Emerging Tech
Video: Forget Driverless Cars. The Invisible Car is Almost Here
How LED screens can make the roads less dangerous.
Emerging Tech
The Slow Death of Google Plus
The tech giant announced it will be slicing out its social network from the rest of its services.
Emerging Tech
Video: How to Drive a Lunar Spacecraft
It's more difficult than mastering the stick shift.
Emerging Tech
Obama Talks Federal IT on ‘Daily Show”
The commander in chief discussed the wave of Silicon Valley tech talent invading government, challenges in IT procurement and how better IT can lead to better federal customer service.
Emerging Tech
USDA Teams Up with Microsoft on Food Data Challenge
The newly launched Innovation Challenge aims to inspire the public to create tech tools for analyzing food supply data.
Emerging Tech
Here's What Its Like to Pilot a Giant Fighting Robot
MegaBots was founded by three engineers who didn’t want to use their skills to go work for another large tech firm in the valley.
Digital Government