Emerging Tech
Social Media Plays Role in Response to Marathon Bombing
Events are unfolding on the ground and online.
Digital Government
The Health IT Performance Challenge
Today’s regulatory landscape requires systems that incorporate sophisticated clinical decision support.
Emerging Tech
Your Itemized Federal Tax Receipt
How much did you invest in renewable energy research last year?
Digital Government
How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work
Like it or not, hyper-efficient job markets are on their way.
Modernization
Six Reasons Why Chinese People Will Drive the Next Bull Market in Bitcoin
There’s one country where people probably won’t need much persuading to join the bit-craze.
Digital Government
The Question of Whether We Can Patent Genes Heads to the Supreme Court
Does the centuries' old method for protecting intellectual property still apply when the invention comes straight out of the human body?
Emerging Tech
Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone
For years people have been urged to create a social-media will for themselves. Now Google has made doing so very easy.
Digital Government
Big Data Can Help Keep the Peace
Social media and cell traffic yield early warning signs of violence.
Emerging Tech
All of the U.S. Energy Capacity Added in March Was Solar — 44 Megawatts
Renewable energy was 82% of first quarter new capacity.
Modernization
Intel and Baidu Join Forces as They Scramble to Keep Up with Mobile Growth
The two companies plan to develop software for China’s mobile internet market.
Emerging Tech
EPA Nominee Declines Comment on Controversial Nuclear Incident Guide
Document references IAEA guidelines suggesting intervention is not needed until drinking water is contaminated with radioactive iodine 131 at a concentration of 81,000 picocuries per liter.
Digital Government
Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns
Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track.
Modernization
Streetview Hack of the Day: Animate Segments of the Road
A new site lets you turn any stretch of Streetviewed road into a hyperlapse, a timelapse with a mobile camera.
Modernization
'Mobile' Computing No Longer Exists
Industry developments are blurring computing lines.
Emerging Tech
Bitcoin Crash Shows Why It's Not Really a Currency
The system encourages hoarding, which is not a great thing for an economy.
Digital Government
Why Google Fiber and Its High-Speed Clones Are Too Expensive for Your City
Installing the fiberoptic cable in Kansas City cost $84 million.
Digital Government
Astronauts' Favorite Space Food: Shrimp Cocktail
It's rehydrated, ghastly pink, a little bit slimy ... and apparently delicious
Emerging Tech
Why Bitcoin 'Millionaires' Could Accidentally Become Tax Felons
Trading in the currency could become a problem for users.
Emerging Tech