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
That Time an Astronaut Got a Pie Sent to the International Space Station
Pie in the sky, literally.
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
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.
Emerging Tech
Q&A: Twitter Chief Talks to Washington
Social network's CEO Dick Costolo takes questions at a Brookings Institution event.
Emerging Tech
Going Really, Really Green: Earth's Plant Life, as Seen From Space
Satellite images of vegetation can help to forecast droughts and fires and even diseases.
Digital Government
Deep Brain Stimulation for the Soul
See the effect of the "mind control" surgery, when patients turn their electrodes off.
Emerging Tech
Snowden Petition Shows Many Paths to a White House Response
A post-indictment boost gave a petition to pardon the NSA leaker enough signatures for an official administration reply.
Emerging Tech
Labor Does More With Less on Streaming Data
The agency has a single Application Programming Interface that connects to 175 data sets.
Digital Government
How a Massive Nuclear Nonproliferation Effort Led to More Proliferation
More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States.
Modernization
Say Hello to Solar-Paneled Clothing That Charges Your Phone
This "Wearable Solar" clothing allegedly can restore half of a phone's power when worn in bright sunlight.
Emerging Tech