Emerging Tech

NASA’s Augmented Reality App Just Got a Makeover

New features and images added.

Emerging Tech

'Ubiquitous As Pigeons': Imagining Life in the City of Drones

An online installation asks us to accept an all-but-certain future of drones in cities, and to rethink our relationship to them.

Digital Government

CDC Uses Twitter to Explain Ebola to the Masses

The health organization is condensing warnings and guidelines into 140-character snippets in a Monday chat.

Digital Government

The Recovering Americans and the 'Top Secret' Ebola Treatment

Two U.S. doctors with Ebola have improved after receiving an experimental antibody.

Emerging Tech

Here Are Some of the Terrifying Possibilities That Have Elon Musk Worried About Artificial Intelligence

The Tesla and SpaceX founder is worried about a new villain that could threaten humanity.

Emerging Tech

Ready for Hologram: Could Virtual Campaigners Shake Up Elections?

One company thinks beamed-in candidates are the future of campaigning.

Emerging Tech

Robots Will Help ID Malaysia Airlines Victims

A world leader in forensics now must quickly and accurately identify its own countrymen and international victims.

Emerging Tech

The USPS' Hail-Mary Idea: Embrace 3-D Printing

Even if the USPS were agile enough to adapt to 3-D printing, doing so would only scratch the surface of remedying the agency's financial troubles.

Digital Government

How Lasers and 3-D Maps Can Help the U.S. Prepare for Climate Change

Federal flood maps are outdated, and climate change will only make them more so, leaving states and localities without the information they need to plan for and mitigate flood risks.

Emerging Tech

4 Reasons Why the Internet of Everything Will Require a New Breed of IT Pros

IoE will demand a workforce shift.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX Scores an Early Win in its Lawsuit Against the US Government

SpaceX had charged the government with violating fair contracting procedures in its lawsuit.

Emerging Tech

Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face

A special make-up can keep facial-recognition algorithms from detecting a face.

Emerging Tech

Microsoft Might Finally Be Committing to Open Source

Late last year Microsoft finally made itself an account on Github, now the de-facto platform that software writers use for sharing and working on open-source code.