Modernization
As Mobile Explodes in Africa, Nairobi Emerging as a Tech Leader
Kenyan capital becomes third African city to hostan IBM 'innovation center.'
Emerging Tech
Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
Emerging Tech
A Robot Just Broke the Human Record for Miles Driven in Space
Another victory for Opportunity, the spunky little rover driving on Mars
Emerging Tech
White House Defends Obamacare on We the People
The petition response came the same day the House voted to repeal the 2-year-old healthcare law.
Digital Government
The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
Emerging Tech
How Data Can Aid Farmers' Markets and Education Innovations
Government information can aid the public but opening it up is just the first step.
Modernization
Google Figures Out the Simplest, Most Profound Way to Send Money: Over Email
Google announced it will gradually allow adult Gmail users to attach money to their emails.
Digital Government
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Mission to Find Earth-Like Planets Might Be Over
Two of the wheels that control the direction in which the spacecraft points are broken.
Digital Government
This Stem-Cell Cloning Breakthrough Is Going to Revive the Same Old Debate
Researchers in Oregon are creating perfectly matched human tissues through the process of cell cloning.
Digital Government
Here’s a Sign Mass-Market Drones Are About to Take Off: Google Just Invested in Their Future
The tech company's venture-capital arm believes non-lethal uses for drones are spreading.
Cybersecurity
There Are 12.5 Unprotected Versions of the Average American’s Personal Information on the Web
Safe Shepherd is a company that searches the web for all the public records available on its clients.
Digital Government
How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach
The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit.
Emerging Tech
Dot-govs Dip Below 1,000
That’s down from about 1,500 when the White House launched a consolidation initiative in 2011.
Emerging Tech
The Story of an Open Document
Here's how the White House open data policy came together.
Modernization
Freedom: BlackBerry's BBM Is Coming to the iPhone
The new app will have voice and screen sharing options.
Modernization
Feds Release Source Code for Dozens of Government Apps
Agency developers could use the code to create new apps or suggest changes to existing apps.
Digital Government
Commentary: If Drones Are Illegal, Then Only Criminals Will Use Them
Drones may be used to replace "mules" in the drug business.
Emerging Tech