Cybersecurity

Treasury Begins Automating Cyber Tip-Sharing with Banks

The technology upgrade follows heavy assaults on Wall Street networks over the past few years.

Emerging Tech

Robot vs. Robot

Can a computer forge a painting well enough it fools the algorithms designed to detect fakes?

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Improving Quality of Life

The seventh installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon on Path to Launch Hacker-Proof Boeing Drone by 2018

Defense industry programmers are rewriting software on the helicopter drone to prevent outsiders from digitally infiltrating the aerial vehicle.

Emerging Tech

Inspector Gadget, but for Nuclear Waste

Four years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, robots are cleaning up the contaminated power plant.

Emerging Tech

Hillary’s Email Excuse: I Didn’t Want to Carry 2 Phones

Does convenience trump transparency?

Emerging Tech

Stop Hating on Graham’s Email Admission

Let’s bring back the Spice Girls, frosted hair tips and wide-legged jeans: It feels like 1995.

Emerging Tech

What's Stopping Startups From Contracting with the Government?

One D.C.-based company claims it can give startups access to the federal government in six months.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data in the UK

The sixth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Ideas

Collaborate or Perish: What the Internet of Everything Teaches Us About Public-Private Partnerships

The pace of global technology change is accelerating, and the future of the U.S. and of the world will require collaborations across sectors.

Modernization

What to Expect from Today's Apple Watch Event

It’s possible Apple could announce that a big number of apps—perhaps more than 1,000—will be available for launch.

Emerging Tech

Halvorsen Now Defense Department’s Permanent CIO

Terry Halvorsen gets the bump from acting CIO and will exercise authority over the Pentagon’s $36 billion IT budget.

Emerging Tech

‘You Can Make Anything with a 3-D Printer’ and 3 Other Myths

A recent paper by intelligence community analysts and private sector researchers zeroes in on both the opportunities and risks of 3-D printing.

Emerging Tech

FTC Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest

FTC is looking for anyone who can block, forward and predict which phone calls are made by automated systems.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Citizen Engagement

The fifth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Emerging Tech

Senators: We Need a National Strategy for the Internet of Things

The bipartisan group urged the United States to articulate a national strategy for developing and deploying the Internet of Things.

Digital Government

Cable and Telecom Giants Take FCC to Court Over Net Neutrality Rules

Here are three arguments cable and telecom giants are likely to use to try to kill the rules.

Modernization

Why the Mobile Industry Wants to Kill the Password

As data rather than voice or text becomes the big reason people use their mobile phones, networks want to extract more value from their users.

Cybersecurity

Sorry Consumers, Companies Have Little Incentive to Invest in Better Cybersecurity

The actual expenses from the recent and high-profile breaches at Sony, Target and Home Depot amount to less than 1% of each company’s annual revenues.