Cybersecurity

A 'Powerful' Cyber Tool Created by Government Now On the Market

After three years in development, the Network Mapping System has moved into the commercial market.

Emerging Tech

How Government Space Geeks at NASA Won the Internet

How NASA stumbled upon perhaps the greatest social-media strategy of our time.

Emerging Tech

FCC Wants to Operate 100 Percent in the Cloud by the End of 2017

FCC is going all-in on cloud computing and is currently in the middle of a “lift-and-shift."

Modernization

Google Wants to Make Your Cellphone Screen Disappear

The phones of the future might look very different.

Cybersecurity

House Panel Dents Budget for Cyber Tool That Scoped out OPM Breaches

Citing proposed pay raise costs and concerns about contracts for the EINSTEIN tool, lawmakers pass $5 million reduction.

Emerging Tech

Here's What Pluto Looks Like on Instagram

New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour, while its suite of instruments gathered data about the dwarf planet.

Emerging Tech

Justice Department Plans Major Office Tech Upgrade

DOJ envisions an “office of the future,” which would revamp much of the technology agency employees use.

Emerging Tech

New Energy Research Teams to Prep for Supercomputers Arriving in 2017

The teams are tasked with making sure existing applications can work on the new machines.

Emerging Tech

Video: 5 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Experience

It's the social network nearly everyone uses. Here's how you make the most of it.

Emerging Tech

The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies

I spent three days on a bus with a bunch of hackers. Here’s what I learned.

Emerging Tech

High-Tech Transportation: Can Congress Regulate Technology that Doesn’t Exist Yet?

Companies say federal regulations are needed before technology can evolve.

Digital Government

Video: Finding a Cure Aboard the International Space Station

How the investigation of protein crystals in space is helping treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Emerging Tech

For Agencies, Chief Data Officers are All About Business

Chief data officers across government do not share all the same duties, job descriptions, reporting structures or budgets.

Emerging Tech

New York Stock Exchange Suspends Trading Following 'Technical Issue'

It’s been a weird day for high-profile tech glitches.

Digital Government

Video: This Organization Wants to Stop Killer Robots

Fifty NGOs have banded together to create a campaign to encourage governments to act now to prevent dangerous autonomous machines in the future.