Emerging Tech

Could immigration IT be the next health IT?

Immigration reform might mean new opportunities for tech vendors

Digital Government

Tech industry offers congrats, wish list for Obama

Industry leaders say president has been "very tech friendly."

Emerging Tech

FBI builds facial recognition app

Software for handhelds would provide ‘the biometric identification power of the U.S. government in real time, at any point on the planet.’

Emerging Tech

What it's like to vote for President ... from space

"The best part of voting from the ISS," per astronaut Leroy Chiao? "No lines!"

Emerging Tech

Actually, the election didn't break Twitter

The social media site defied predictions and didn't break due to the velocity of tweets

Emerging Tech

Best of the Instagraming your ballot tweets

The Cinderella social media star

Emerging Tech

Why we can't relax about this one glitchy voting machine in Pennsylvania

Video shows a vote being changed from Obama to Romney in battleground state.

Digital Government

Obama's Facebook fans love Michelle; Romney's love winning

Data scraping reveals striking differences between the campaigns' Facebook audiences.

Emerging Tech

Googling in the voting booth

An Election Day prediction.

Emerging Tech

Your guide to the election and social media

The role of Facebook, Twitter and newer services in voting, monitoring and calling the results.

Digital Government

New Jersey to allow voting by email (and fax) for residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy

Anyone displaced by the hurricane just got declared an overseas voter

Emerging Tech

Where the candidates stand on tech issues

Verge graphic includes candidate stances on cyber, space and SOPA.

Emerging Tech

But who are the grammarians backing?

Romney’s tweets keep it cleaner -- on grammar and punctuation at least.

Emerging Tech

Pentagon taps BAE to make battlefield computing more efficient

Warfighters routinely discard intelligence because they lack capacity to process it.

Emerging Tech

In a race between a self-driving car and a pro race-car driver, who wins?

Humans, but only by a few measly seconds.

Emerging Tech

Is there life beyond Earth? 'I think absolutely,' says NASA JPL Director

"We have the same laws of chemistry, physics. If there are any locations where there are the basic ingredients, there should be the basic ingredients for life."

Modernization

Everybody loves the iPad Mini

The reviews for Apple's latest device are in, and mostly positive

Digital Government

The automation of our skies: How computers could resolve flight delays

Instead of having humans manually adjust flight schedules and routes, we should design weather-data fueled software do the task.