Emerging Tech
How Making Microchips 3D Could Unleash an Age of “Cognitive Computing”
Hector Ruiz has an idea he hopes to lead a transformation of our most basic ideas about what a microchip can be.
Modernization
The Future of Twitter Is Robots Tweeting at Each Other
Instead of being person to person, the social network has become a truly broadcast medium.
Modernization
The Touch-Screen Generation
Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?
Emerging Tech
We Still Do Not Know If Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
The official position remains that the spacecraft has not yet crossed over into interstellar space
Emerging Tech
The Engines That Propelled Us Into Space, Recovered From the Ocean Floor
For the Apollo engines, it's one if by space, two if by sea.
Emerging Tech
Chinese banks force Suntech into bankruptcy
Solar panel maker said today that eight Chinese banks had filed a petition to declare the company’s Chinese operations bankrupt.
Emerging Tech
Curiosity's Hit-and-Run Leads to Another Martian Discovery
Behold: "One of the whitest things" we've seen on the Red Planet
Emerging Tech
Space Apps and Duck-Sized Horses in Microgravity
Astronaut Ron Garan answers questions about NASA’s Space Apps Challenge on Reddit.
Emerging Tech
Empowering Innovation One Great Idea at a Time
Richard Boly is on a mission to identify future technology leaders at the State Department.
Digital Government
All the Cities Photographed From the International Space Station
If your hometown's been shot by astronaut/prolific shutterbug Chris Hadfield, it's probably viewable on this interactive map.
Digital Government
Google Street View Goes to Its Most Extreme Destinations Yet: 4 of the Planet's Highest Mountains
It's just like hiking up Mt. Everest -- minus the hiking part.
Emerging Tech
Why Middle Eastern Oil States Are the New Solar-Energy Hotspots
The world’s largest solar thermal power plant just went online -- in Abu Dhabi.
Emerging Tech
A One-Stop-Shop for U.S.-Sponsored Global Journalism
New dashboard streams news from Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, others.
Emerging Tech
China’s Leadership is Upping Pressure on Western Tech and Media Companies
China’s just-installed president Xi Jinping and his cabinet seem to be becoming hostile to US tech companies as a way of championing their domestic rivals.
Digital Government
Mapping the Growth of OpenStreetMap
Looking back over the history of the crowdsourced digital street map, a familiar pattern emerges.
Digital Government
Open Data is a '21st Century Natural Resource'
Canadian lawmaker Tony Clement is at the forefront of the country's most important IT reforms.
Digital Government
Let Government Scientists Tweet More, Report Says
Federal agencies are improving social media policies but have a ways to go.
Emerging Tech
The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
Emerging Tech