Digital Government
How Micro-Targeting Helped GOP Mobilize Voters
Getting out the vote used to be Obama's ball game. Now Republicans are playing for keeps, too.
Emerging Tech
Why Millennials Can't Get Enough of Science
Today's young adults see new discoveries both as a source of awe and a means for innovation.
Emerging Tech
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart
But praising their intelligence can make them feel even more insecure. A self-esteem expert offers a way out of the conundrum.
Modernization
Google Glass Has a Blind Spot -- Literally
Researchers say the techno-specs create a "partial peripheral vision obstruction."
Cybersecurity
The Next Big Thing in the Fight Against Hackers: Self-Healing Computers
Agency networks should not only be able to continuously detect hackers and throttle their destructive tactics -- but also robotically bounce back, an NSA official says.
Emerging Tech
Can Facebook's 'I Voted' Button Really Skew an Election?
Facebook believes that in 2010, its election-day module was responsible for more than 600,000 additional votes.
Emerging Tech
Why Self-Driving Buses -- Not Cars -- Are the Future of Transportation
The autonomous car will not be nearly as autonomous as its champions would have you believe.
Cybersecurity
Navy Takes on Internet of Things with New Task Force
"Task Force Cyber Awakening" will draw from the head U.S. Cyber Command's reaction strategy to a major Navy computer system hack.
Cybersecurity
When Government is the Hacker, How Do You Protect Yourself?
FBI malware and mass government surveillance breach U.S. citizens’ privacy, tech firms say.
Emerging Tech
Government’s Sustainability Efforts Present ‘Big Data Opportunity’
A combination of recent federal policies and emerging technologies have the potential to significantly curb agencies’ energy spending.
Emerging Tech
White House Challenge: Make Our First 3-D Printed Christmas Ornament
You don’t even need a 3-D printer.
Digital Government
Why Ebola Vaccine May Not Stop Epidemic
The earliest human trials—that is, initial safety studies in small numbers of volunteers—are underway.
Emerging Tech
Unmanned NASA Rocket Explodes in Virginia
The failed launch came just one day after NASA scrubbed an earlier scheduled launch due to a stray boat encroaching into the rocket's safety range.
Cybersecurity
600 Military Travelers Handed ‘Chip and PIN’ Hack-Resistant Credit Cards
All Pentagon travel cards will be replaced with new tech by summer 2015.
Digital Government
To Hack the Bureaucracy, Federal IT Fix-It Shop First Needs to Hack Hiring
The incubator has plans to grow bigger in the next year.
Modernization
The Future of Wearable Technology Sounds Kind of Awful
A new report out from the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers concludes that sooner or later wearable technology will catch on.
Digital Government
The Female Pioneers Who Changed STEM Forever
One was turned down from a job in a lab because she was “too pretty” and would be “a distracting influence.”
Emerging Tech
Anyone Ever Done This Before? Patent Office Turns to Crowdsourcing
What should the contract look like? PTO asks.
Emerging Tech
Why This Tech Historian Thinks Robots are the Key to Human Innovation
Federal researchers and policy-makers need to team up not only with each other but also with machine counterparts.
Emerging Tech