Modernization

Google Celebrates July 4 By Announcing the Most All-American Gizmo Since the Model T

Google's new Moto X "superphone" will be released in October.

Digital Government

Operations in China Will Soon Be Performed by American Doctors in Texas, Via Robots

A new partnership has been forged between two hospitals in China and the US.

Digital Government

Apple’s Web-Based Office Software Will Force Google and Microsoft to Up Their Game

iWork for iCloud hopes to be a web-based app experience that’s as good as a desktop application.

Emerging Tech

Westboro Baptists Are Broadly Reviled, White House Shows

Map shows signatures of people who see controversial church as a hate group.

Digital Government

Interactive Gettysburg: Using Modern Mapping Tools for a New Look at the Historical Battle

Seeing how Gettysburg played out on a map can help us understand why, in the end, it turned out as it did.

Digital Government

Meet the Hacktivist Who Wants to Warn Syrians About Incoming Missiles

A new service provides an alert system for SCUDs fired by the Syrian government. Assad is already trying to take it down.

Emerging Tech

The Future According to Ray LaHood: High-Speed Rail, But Also Tons of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Despite being a proponent of walkable communities, the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Transportation just doesn't believe Americans will ever stop buying cars.

Digital Government

Q and A: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing City Government

Harvard Professor Stephen Goldsmith wants to build a market for municipal data analytics.

Emerging Tech

Innovative Funding Begets Innovative Development

A USAID-funded project to chlorinate drinking water near its source will affect 5 million people by 2015.

Emerging Tech

How We Name the Things We Find on Mars

Hint: it can involve ... theme weeks.

Emerging Tech

NASA: Voyager 1 Is in a 'New Region' of Space

But it hasn't quite left the bubble around our sun yet.

Emerging Tech

Online Accessibility Is More Complicated Than It Seems

Small quirks can make websites impossible for disabled people to access.

Emerging Tech

Saving Government Tweets Is Tougher Than You Think

The National Archives wants working groups to make sure agencies are retaining social media records.

Modernization

Thailand Is Buying Record Numbers of Smartphones, but It’s Facebook that People Really Want

Almost 3 million smartphones were sold in Thailand in just the first four months of this year.

Digital Government

The U.S. Will Retire Most of the Chimpanzees Used for Research

Only 50 chimps will be kept for biomedical research in the future.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon Signs $5 Million Deal for Cyber Battleground

The contract with Apogee Research is part of Plan X, a DARPA program for developing cyberattack gear.