Emerging Tech

How Can Luddite Adults Help Digital-Savvy Teens?

The digital-first generation's parents can teach some things.

Emerging Tech

31 Percent of Kenya’s GDP is Spent Through Mobile Phones

Mobile payment system M-Pesa has 19 million customers in the African nation.

Emerging Tech

Open Source Software is Common at DHS

It's reliable and integrated throughout the agency’s portfolio, CIO Richard Spires says.

Emerging Tech

Imagine an Aircraft Carrier Made Out of ... Robots

Next up: autonomous boats for maritime disasters

Emerging Tech

How NASA Scientists Are Turning L.A. Into One Big Climate-Change Lab

Scientists have been probing the city's airspace for more than a year, as part of an interagency initiative called the Megacities Carbon Project.

Modernization

Here Comes the Parade of Computing Interfaces That Want to Replace the Touchscreen

Over the next six months or so, we're going to see an explosion of new ways of interacting with computers, televisions, and mobile devices.

Digital Government

The Loophole That Keeps Precarious Medical Devices in Use

Devices such as AEDs remain in a grandfathered status that allows them to bypass important regulation

Emerging Tech

Meet the Former NASA Scientist Who's Teaching Coloradans How to Grow Marijuana Legally

Dale J. Chamberlain's High Altitude School of Hydroponics (HASH) courses are specifically designed to comply with Colorado's new cannabis law.

Emerging Tech

Better 3D-Printed Guns Will Not Wait for Congress — or the NRA

Defense Distributed is looking to provide blueprints for firearms that can be created with 3D printers.

Emerging Tech

Coolest Thing About Learning to Code Is Getting a Job

Code.org has released a promotional video filled with celebrities saying: learn code and you too can work in a hip Silicon Valley office.

Emerging Tech

Government Map Site to Get Springtime Upgrade

Revamped Geoplatform.gov will include mapping communities and allow agencies to host their mapping applications on the site.

Emerging Tech

Sequestration Could Hurt Research on New Data Analysis Tools

White House wants to make results of studies more available to the public.

Digital Government

Big Data Is Leading Scientists to Ask Bigger Questions

Scientists often need to interpret much larger data sets to drive discoveries.

Emerging Tech

U.S. Nuclear Lab Ready to Shelve Costly Facility Plan

The laboratory would instead permanently parcel out work to an array of smaller buildings.

Digital Government

Can America code its way to more factories?

Software is eating manufacturing right in front of us.

Emerging Tech

White House Will Respond to Petition to Re-legalize Unlocking Cellphones

Petitioners are also sounding off about the Pentagon’s decision to give medals to drone pilots.

Emerging Tech

Google Will Finally Release a Device Apple Doesn't Make: A Touchscreen Laptop

The machine will be powered by the Chrome operating system.

Digital Government

Astronauts on the ISS Have Trouble With Work-Life Balance, Too

The good news: Even astronauts feel like they don't have enough time. The bad: Even astronauts feel like they don't have enough time.

Modernization

'Bring Your Own Bandwidth' Means a Future of Ultra-Cheap Calls

Republic Wireless is selling a phone that will carry out all of its functions over WiFi.

Digital Government

Is the CDC Wrong to Endorse Tamiflu?

The people clearly proven to be benefitting from the flu medication are its manufacturers.