Emerging Tech

Forget 3D Printing—3D Subtraction Is Going to Arrive in Your Garage First

The simpler, older technology is already used at automated factories.

Digital Government

Competitive Video Gamers Can Now Get Visas to 'Work' in the U.S.

Immigration and Citizenship Services is granting gamers visas normally reserved for professional athletes.

Emerging Tech

3-D Printing Could Transform NASA

Using the technique to produce a fuel injector, officials cut costs by 70 percent.

Emerging Tech

Japanese Drones Hit Middle America in WWII

The unmanned bombing craft were supposed to spark forest fires in the West but mostly missed their marks.

Digital Government

Iris Recognition Specs for DHS Employee IDs Are No Longer Hypothetical

NIST has finalized guidelines for exchanging eye images between cameras and card readers.

Cybersecurity

Russia’s Solution to NSA Spying? Typewriters

Russia uses the outdated technology for top-secret messages.

Emerging Tech

Rebooted Smokey’s Giving Bear Hugs

The updated Forest Service icon now embraces campers who avoid wildfires.

Emerging Tech

VA Spent $2 Million on Facebook Ads

One division spent heavily on the ads while others spent little or nothing.

Emerging Tech

3-D Printed Rocket Engines Could Make Space Travel Cheaper

The NASA space agency and Aerojet Rocketdyne say they have successfully tested a rocket engine injector that was made using powerful lasers.

Emerging Tech

Gender Gap Affects IT Shops, Where Women Remain Scarce

Men and women divide most starkly on leadership issues, including fairness and empowerment.

Emerging Tech

Look Who’s Gif-ing Now

A Connecticut senator is using animated gifs to urge action on student loans.

Emerging Tech

How to Wash Your Hair in Space

All you need is special shampoo, a wide-tooth comb, some warm water ... and microgravity.

Emerging Tech

Ground-Attack Aircraft Radar to Outmaneuver Overcast Skies

L-3 Communications secures a $2.6 million Pentagon deal to build sensors that use extremely high frequency radio technology to see through clouds.

Digital Government

How a Deadly Explosive, When 3D Printed, Could Be Life-Saving

People who are digging up unexploded ordinances sometimes don't know how to handle them. Could these replicas change that?

Digital Government

Despite Test Failure, Pentagon Remains Confident About Missile Defense

Defense spokesman says the U.S. could respond to any threat from North Korea.

Digital Government

Finalists Exhibit Tech for $465 Million Virtual Border Fence

The installation of more surveillance towers has drawn rare bipartisan support in the immigration reform debate.