Emerging Tech

Schools Should Be Teaching Kids How to Use the Internet Well

But outdated web filters make that mission quite difficult.

Emerging Tech

Here’s the Enormous Hangar Google Bought to Fill With Robots

Google’s proposal for the structure includes plans for research and development on robotics, rovers and space and aeronautic projects.

Emerging Tech

Energy Department Touts Controversial Loan Program as Huge Solar Project Opens

A solar energy generating system in the Mojave Desert was helped along by a $1.6 billion loan guarantee.

Digital Government

Obamacare Enrollment Drops in January From a December High

About 1.1 million new people enrolled in plans through HealthCare.gov and state marketplaces during the month.

Emerging Tech

Is Microsoft’s Bing Spreading the Chinese Government’s Censorship Around the World?

Findings from the anti-censorship blog GreatFire.org suggest an ominous extension of the Great Firewall’s reach.

Emerging Tech

Can Vietnam Create the Next Silicon Valley?

The Communist Party's multimillion-dollar plan to develop the world’s next tech hub.

Emerging Tech

These Molecule-sized Wires Could Stop the Computer Industry From Hitting a Brick Wall

The nanoFSM saves power, and creates less heat, through a combination of size and design.

Emerging Tech

Five Things That Cost More Than Space Exploration

Does the U.S. spend too much on space exploration, or not enough?

Emerging Tech

How to Make Data-Based Hiring Decisions

Typical resumé fodder may not be predictive of an employee’s performance.

Emerging Tech

This GIF Shows What Might Be Water Flowing on Mars

Thanks to seasonally warm temperatures and some iron-based anti-freeze.

Digital Government

DARPA Launches Project to Revolutionize Web Search

Memex system, inspired by a 1945 article in The Atlantic, will focus on topical searches and plumb ‘deep Web.’

Emerging Tech

Why China Just Built This Lantern-Shaped Research Base in Antarctica

Antarctica is the world’s last unexploited continent, and the latest site of a global race over resources and status.

Modernization

That Fake iPhone Is Probably Full of Lead

Knockoff mobile devices have 'alarmingly high proportions of hazardous substances,' report finds.

Digital Government

Bitcoin Company Offers Stock Denominated in Bitcoin

The founder of Bitcoin Kinetics imagines a future in which you can pay for everything with the currency.

Emerging Tech

Bitcoin Is Broken—Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It

It doesn't work as a currency, but it could help build the financial architecture of web payments. Here's how.

Emerging Tech

Asteroid Miners Reach K Street Orbit

Planetary Resources has retained Dick Gephardt as a lobbyist.

Emerging Tech

Introducing (1978!) Cellular Phone Service

Bell Labs explains Advanced Mobile Phone Service, available in a car near you.