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.

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

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.

Emerging Tech

Tech support: Who to call in Congress

TechCrunch rates lawmakers on their alignment with tech industry lobbyists.

Emerging Tech

Martian soil is a lot like Hawaiian soil

NASA's Curiosity Rover is starting to get some analysis from its soil scooping mission

Emerging Tech

Commerce, Justice reviewing .com contract

Departments are scrutinizing Verisign's bid for a six-year renewal of its contract to continue running the Internet's most popular generic top-level domain name.

Emerging Tech

Facts and figures from a day indoors during Sandy

Some personal stats from the storm while awaiting FEMA's social media and Web traffic figures.

Modernization

All the Internet projects that help us through Sandy

These projects make it easier to send and collect relevant data about the storm

Emerging Tech

What if we didn't know Hurricane Sandy was coming?

The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead.

Emerging Tech

The birth of Hurricane Sandy

NASA video: 10 days of storm development in 20 seconds