Digital Government
The year in tech, 2012
The tech landscape changed everything from how we elect presidents to how we fight wars.
Emerging Tech
Google gives $5 million to drone program that will track poachers
If left unchecked, poaching threatens to annihilate some of the world's biggest and most beautiful species. Can UAVs stop the bloodshed?
Emerging Tech
The Chinese want to know why their news is on Twitter and they aren't
The Communist Party's official Twitter account has caused outrage among Chinese citizens stuck behind the country's Firewall.
Emerging Tech
Via the Moon, a theory of life on Mars
NASA captures, quite literally, gravity's rainbow.
Emerging Tech
How to take the 'social' out of social media
A two-day approval process for vetting government Tweets makes no sense.
Emerging Tech
White House joins Pinterest
The administration hopes to broaden its social media reach.
Emerging Tech
NASA eyes Velcro to ease the way for in-orbit satellite repairs
The low-tech fastener is a cheap option for enhancing compatibility with emerging servicing technology.
Emerging Tech
John McAfee can't stay out of the spotlight
Software magnate posts a Q&A while in a Guatemalan detention center.
Emerging Tech
Another kind of secession petition
Leader of the micronation 'Molossia' seeks recognition from U.S.
Modernization
What Apple's all-American factory of the future might look like
The company's past and the current economy may offer a picture of their future stateside factory.
Pay & Benefits
Resolve the fiscal cliff or don’t get paid (or sick), petitioners tell Congress, Obama
Thousands sign on to plea to avert austerity crisis.
Emerging Tech
A new way to forecast drought
Satellite measurements of "plant stress" indicated the arrival of drought a month before the U.S. drought monitor.
Emerging Tech
Does anyone really use Google+ still?
Although the social network has 500 million users, a much smaller percentage of those are active on the site.
Emerging Tech
Could a hookup app help feds?
Approximate location technology could be worked into government software applications.
Emerging Tech
Black marble: The Earth at night like you've never seen it before
“Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights.”
Digital Government
North Korea's very unpopular rocket is almost ready for lift off
Satellite images show North Korean workers walking around the launch pad.
Emerging Tech