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.

Emerging Tech

Two Shape-Shifting Robots Now Stranded for Eternity Inside Fukushima’s Radioactive Ruins

The robots were sent into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor to assess the damage.

Digital Government

Google Joins the Search for the Loch Ness Monster

Now anyone with an Internet connection can search for Nessie using Street View imaging of murky Scottish waters.

Digital Government

Few Americans Think Federal Open Data Programs Are Effective

Only 5 percent believe the federal government shares data effectively, according to a new survey from Pew.

Digital Government

Feds Heighten Scrutiny of TSA Screeners and Aviation Staff to Thwart Insider Threat

The prospective measures stem from a report the Department of Homeland Security requested after a former baggage handler last December allegedly helped smuggle loaded guns aboard a plane bound for New York City.

Digital Government

18F’s Hillary Hartley on Redesigning Government Services: Put the People First

As deputy executive director of GSA’s digital services team, Hillary Hartley’s job is to put customers at the forefront of any technology project.

Modernization

Video: How Do Noise-Canceling Headphones Work?

Electronically eliminating the sounds of your surroundings may be one way to finally get some work done.

Modernization

Video: John Oliver Is the Most Powerful Tech Lobbyist in the Country

The British TV host excoriated patent trolls on his show Sunday.

Emerging Tech

These 3 Steps Could Prevent 85 Percent of All Data Breaches

A great many cyber calamities are preventable through basic cybersecurity hygiene.

Emerging Tech

The Latest Disruptive Space Technology Is a Battery-Powered Rocket Engine

The Electron battery will be focused on lifting the new generation of miniature satellites weighing as little as 2 kg that some entrepreneurs say they will use to create the infrastructure for a global internet network.

Emerging Tech

Consumer Electronics Show Sets up Shop in Least Tech-Savvy Place on Earth: US Congress

Tech companies, from startups to heavyweights such as Google and LG, came to the Rayburn House Office to pitch their products to lawmakers.

Emerging Tech

A New Satellite for One of the Great U.S. Space Programs

Landsat 9 will launch in 2023, and promises the continuity of a critical, long-running database for imagery of the Earth's surface.