Digital Government
Is Lab-Grown Meat Good for Us?
No saturated fat, no heme iron, no growth hormone—cultured meat seems to have many potential benefits.
Emerging Tech
Why US Power Companies Don’t Want You Putting a Solar Panel on Your Roof
Electrical utilities believe solar panel distributors could put them out of business.
Emerging Tech
3D Scanners Are Getting Cheap so Fast, the Age of 3D Piracy Could Soon Be Upon Us
MakerBot, the leading maker of desktop 3D printers, is launching its own 3D scanner.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Planet-Hunting Telescope Will Never Hunt Planets Again
The space agency has given up on repair attempts to the Kepler Telescope.
Cybersecurity
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the real issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money.
Digital Government
How Drones Fundamentally Alter the Nature of Combat
The weapons, like all significant advances in warfare, are essentially unfair.
Emerging Tech
Google Is Preparing for Screenless Computers
The tech giant is moving rapidly to enable voice commands in all of its products.
Digital Government
Good News, Future Colonists! Mars Meals May Feature Nutella
And also seafood chowder ... and curried noodles ... and Spam.
Emerging Tech
Why We’re a Long Way From Computers That Really Work Like the Human Brain
No machine has yet been able to replicate the brain's interconnected nature.
Emerging Tech
The White House Didn't Promise to Respond Quickly
Website listing unanswered We the People petitions is built with streaming data supplied by the White House.
Digital Government
State Department May Give Embassy Drone Surveillance Another Shot
Officials cancelled an earlier bid for the aircraft, but they've scaled back requirements in a new notice to contractors.
Emerging Tech
How a Cat Helped Pioneer New Postal Service Technology, Circa 1897
It's like a Dr. Seuss story, only it actually happened.
Digital Government
Proof That Geographic Data Really Should Be Free
New York City and California have begun to offer up their GIS files to anyone who wants them, and early results are amazing.
Digital Government
Get Ready for More Nights Without Power
Ten years after the 2003 meltdown, weather-related outages are on the rise.
Emerging Tech
Social Media Could Help Educate More Vets About Benefits
The department has spent millions on Facebook advertising to veterans in the past two years.
Emerging Tech
White House Responds to Another Round of Gun Petitions
The appeals followed the shooting of 20 children at a Connecticut elementary school in December.
Digital Government
How Censorship Hurts Chinese Internet Companies
Beijing's block of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter has allowed domestic equivalents to grow. But by shunning global markets, their long-term outlook is uncertain.
Emerging Tech
So Much for the Solar Trade War: China Panel Makers Set New Sales Records
The death of China’s solar industry appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
Cybersecurity
Space Storms Could Knock Out the World’s Entire Critical Communications Infrastructure
There's a reason why the US government keeps such a close eye on the sun.
Modernization