Digital Government
In a Secret Drone War, Immoral Kill Deals Will Always Tempt Us
Killing targets simply because foreign governments want them dead carries a high potential for blowback.
Modernization
Yes, People Are Hoarding Bitcoins
The total value of outstanding bitcoins surpassed $2 billion today, up by about 1,300% since the beginning of the year.
Emerging Tech
Stephen Colbert Forced Bill Clinton to Join Twitter
The former President now has close to 34,000 on the social networking site.
Emerging Tech
Majority of Senate Standing Committees Still Aren’t Tweeting
Senate Homeland Security is the seventh of 16 standing committees to launch an account.
Emerging Tech
Sen. Murray Keeps Hanford Nuclear Site Safe From Budget Cuts
While Energy is facing across-the-board cuts, Murray wants to keep her home state's facility funded.
Emerging Tech
Here’s What Government is Vine-ing About
Some agencies and officials are already posting six-second videos to the new social site.
Emerging Tech
Paper Records Can Be Tracked Too
The Education Department is considering a radio monitoring system for documents it can’t yet digitize.
Emerging Tech
Forget Bitcoin, This Virtual Currency Doubles Your Money Every Month
Currency creator Sergey Mavrodi wants to make you rich and destroy the financial system at the same time.
Modernization
Those Ocean-Going Robots We Told You About Just Got Smarter
Researchers at Liquid Robotics unveiled its next-generation Wave Glider SV3, which has what the company calls “intelligent autonomy.”
Emerging Tech
Meet Two Feds Who Made Government Work Better
A little technology smartly applied can move the bureaucracy in a new direction.
Digital Government
Solar Panels Are Finally Generating More Energy Than They Use
There’s more than a 50% chance that the solar industry reached a tipping point last year.
Digital Government
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Better Public Health Outcomes, and Zombies
In conclusion, zombies are awesome, and can be used as a thought experiment to probe the ethical dimensions of public health responses to disease outbreaks.
Emerging Tech
What Became of the Parachute That Delivered Curiosity to Mars?
It sits on the Red Planet, flapping hauntingly in the wind.
Modernization
How Smartphones Could Revolutionize the Way We Heat and Cool Our Homes
Customers could run their appliances and manage their utilities from their mobile devices, cutting down on power use.
Emerging Tech
The New House Republican Web Strategy: Just Add BuzzFeed
NRCC site redesign will likely be rolled out this weekend.
Emerging Tech
Development Agency’s Chief Innovator to Step Down
Maura O’Neill championed private sector funding models for innovations in international development.
Digital Government
Food and Drug Agency Triples Down on Data Mining
The FDA has begun solicitations for three services to analyze drug data in the past month.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Embassy in Cairo Briefly Shuts Down Twitter Profile After Morsi Spat
Egyptian president chided the embassy for tweeting the link to a Daily Show segment that criticized him.
Digital Government
Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain?
Barack Obama announced an initiative yesterday that involves significant government investment in neuroscience. So begins the international race to understand the brain.
Emerging Tech