Digital Government

Blood in zero gravity: NASA tries to prepare for surgery in space

Zero gravity and bodily fluids are a dangerous combination.

Emerging Tech

Facebook wants to make every user an advertiser

The social network will begin rolling out a service that enables users to promote their status updates.

Modernization

Doodle-recognition technology could help curb voter fraud

Federally-funded ID pilot lets citizens renew their driver’s license by drawing a passcode.

Emerging Tech

The government wants your big data ideas

Competition offers prize purse of $1,000 for first place and $500 for second place.

Digital Government

Email Is getting harder because everything else is so much easier

Since the beginning of this year, several news sites have seen a significant drop in email shares.

Emerging Tech

Exploring the world's shortest domain names

Inside the web universe of two-letter names.

Emerging Tech

Here's what the space around Earth sounds like

One of NASA's newest missions has recorded the radio waves coming from our magnetosphere.

Emerging Tech

DHS and academic researchers build a better shoe bomb . . . detector

Northeastern University obtains $1.1 million grant to outfit CT scans with tools for recognizing explosives triggers.

Emerging Tech

Military scientists devise surveillance malware to track surroundings in 3D

Tool could hide within seemingly harmless camera app.

Emerging Tech

Snakes on a plane! That are actually laser-wielding robots!

Why tiny, wriggling machines could be the future of airplane repair

Emerging Tech

Watchdogs give multi-agency FOIA portal a thumbs up

Module could save $200 million over five years if adopted governmentwide.

Emerging Tech

Video: Clay Shirky on how the Internet will (one day) transform government

Why we should both temper -- and embrace -- our optimism about the digital world