Cybersecurity

Hack Strikes Feds in Drupal.org Community

Websites running the widely-used open source content management system are unaffected.

Digital Government

Is Big Pharma Standing in the Way of Curing the New SARS?

The developing disease has been described by the World Health Organization as "a threat to the entire world."

Emerging Tech

Are New Ultra-Cheap 3D Printers Revolutionary or Just Toys?

The parallels between the personal computing revolution and the one in 3D printing are irresistible.

Modernization

All Your Worst Fears About Google Glass Are Coming True

Google's facial recognition API presents a terrifying privacy scenario.

Emerging Tech

Cell Providers Must Bounce Back 911 Texts That Don’t Go Through

Text-to-911 service is coming for major wireless carriers in 2014.

Emerging Tech

What Will the App Developers Make of This?

A look at the government's newly released streaming data feeds.

Emerging Tech

This Is What It Feels Like to Finally Reach Space

Smiles on the faces of all the astronauts last night as they boarded the International Space Station

Emerging Tech

Our Equal Future: Does Technology Hold the Key to a Flatter World?

Far from making the world more fair, technology serves to reinforce, and perhaps even increase, inequalities.

Emerging Tech

Jurassic Park Is Real...for 400-Year-Old Arctic Mosses

Scientists have successfully regrown vegetation that had been trapped in a glacier.

Emerging Tech

'We're Trying to Portray the Universe as a Real Place With Real Landscapes'

The story of the scientists and artists who have given us our most beautiful pictures of space

Emerging Tech

Solar Energy's Sunny Future

The crashing price of silicon may have killed off Solyndra, but the industry has also grown more competitive with other forms of energy.

Modernization

Your Smartphone, Made of Cement

Scientists just discovered a way to turn masonry into metal. Using lasers.

Emerging Tech

Open Data Could Aid Spending Transparency

Treasury is interested in integrating open data into the next generation of financial systems.

Emerging Tech

Meet the Only Company That Still Thinks a Manned Spacecraft Should Fly Back to Earth

Dream Chaser is that rare piece of technology that is both a leap forward and a throwback.

Emerging Tech

NASA's Plan to Lasso an Asteroid is Making Progress

Agency has a prototype of the ion propulsion engine, and they'd like to test it next year.

Modernization

Someday, You May Use Bitcoin Without Even Knowing It

Bitcoin bankers have big dreams of reinventing the financial system.

Modernization

Making the Case for iPads in Every Classroom

Front Row Education makes an adaptive math learning iPad app for K-5 students.