Digital Government

GSA to Host Data-Infused Hackathon

Participants will be tasked with designing innovative tools to improve data collection at GSA and other agencies.

Emerging Tech

Super Strong Mini Robots Can Haul Up to 2,000 Times Their Weight

These tiny robots' feats of strength are equivalent to a human dragging a blue whale across land.

Digital Government

What Good Is a Video You Can't See?

Police body cameras are meant to be a tool of public accountability. But even experts can't agree on how to make sure that happens.

Emerging Tech

Agencies Often Lack Strong Authentication and it’s a Big Problem

Agencies reported nearly 70,000 cyberincidents in fiscal 2014, a 15 percent bump up from the previous year.

Emerging Tech

Lawmakers Want a Few Good Hackers to Help Bring Congress into the 21st Century

Next week, Hack4Congress will bring together a wide array of participants to help solve challenges that could make Congress function more efficiently.

Digital Government

3-D Microscope Uses Virtual Reality to Let You Explore a Molecule

Nanotronics Imaging has created a new system, called nVisible, that lets anyone walk through a three-dimensional, digital visualization of a microscopic landscape, using a virtual reality headset.

Emerging Tech

Innovation in Federal IT? Sorry, Not in the Budget This Year

A new survey, not surprisingly, finds “budget limitations” are the top barrier to new IT adoption.

Digital Government

Video: Democratizing Data

How the open data revolution is really a part of something larger.

Modernization

The Unbelievable Power of Amazon's Cloud

The company's Web Services—which undergird Netflix, Healthcare.gov, and Spotify—might be the single most important piece of technology to the modern tech boom.

Modernization

Here Are the Agency Websites Google Doesn’t Think are Mobile Friendly

Bad news for some dot-govs: Google will now rank websites based on their mobile friendliness.

Emerging Tech

Intelligent Windows, Self-Repairing Concrete and Other Inventions that Could Change the World

The European Patent Office has announced its finalists for the 2015 European Inventor Awards, honoring brilliant inventions from a range of scientific fields.

Digital Government

Silicon Valley Startup Wants to Make Breast Cancer-Gene Testing Affordable to All Americans

Color Genomics has raised $15 million in funding to have all American women get access to a test for 19 gene mutations responsible of increasing cancer risk.

Modernization

Amazon Is About to Reveal One of its Biggest Secrets—the Size of its Cloud Business

Now, some nine years after its launch, AWS has grown large enough that Amazon will start to report its revenue and profitability as a separate business segment.

Emerging Tech

Martha Dorris Moves Positions at GSA

The longtime fed will become the director of GSA’s Office of Strategic Programs within GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services.

Emerging Tech

Tech Giants Team Up to Unleash NOAA’s Data

NOAA will partner with major cloud computing providers to explore ways the agency might better unleash its vast environmental data stores for the public good.