Cybersecurity
Intel acquires heartbeat biometric-sensing company
IDesia Biometrics products can uniquely identify you by your heartbeat.
Digital Government
Inside the bureaucracy that crippled Microsoft
Recently obtained emails reveal the top-down company culture that stifled innovation.
Digital Government
Video: How drones misidentify targets; a retired general speaks
He warns that their operators lack important context, and gives a chilling example from the field.
Digital Government
In report, Twitter lists zero cases where it has removed content in response to government requests
But requests from copyright-holders resulted in the deletion of more than 5,000 tweets.
Emerging Tech
Consumer groups: Privacy meetings favor D.C.
Groups that aren't based in the area may not have the resources or time to send representatives to D.C. every time there is a meeting, the groups say.
Digital Government
This declaration of Internet freedom is vague
At fewer than 100 words, the declaration's length seems itself to be an attack on the anti-Internet contingent.
Digital Government
Pentagon dishes out funding for rapid manufacturing technologies
Boeing nabs a $3.7 million DARPA contract.
Emerging Tech
Hands-free camera maker Looxcie inks In-Q-Tel deal
Devices will be developed for Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate.
Modernization
How students scoop the Feds on online privacy violations
Google was secretly planting cookies on a vast number of iPhone browsers and college students found out the program.
Digital Government
National lab, IBM team up on supercomputer initiative
Aim is to crunch huge amounts of data to improve private sector competitiveness.
Emerging Tech
Eye on crime: The FBI is building a database of iris scans
The bureau is tapping into the proliferation of biometric data state and local law enforcement agencies are collecting.
Emerging Tech
Military needs better technology to evade increasingly sophisticated enemy radar systems
DARPA is hosting a classified briefing to develop better countermeasures.
Cybersecurity
DHS to give agencies free computer threat-detection packages
Continuous monitoring program would draw $200 million from Homeland Security’s 2013 budget.
Emerging Tech
Surveillance cameras could make us better people
A Dutch research team hopes that surveillance cameras could reverse the "bystander effect."
Emerging Tech
Military plans to buy new ground weapon that complies with landmine treaty
DARPA seeks to award sole-source contract to Textron Defense Systems.
Emerging Tech
Bill would close ‘floodgates’ to counterfeit microchips
Lawmaker says a flawed DHS policy created the problem.
Digital Government
Can you build a combat vehicle through crowdsourcing? The Pentagon seems to think so.
DARPA awards engineering firm Ricardo with $9.8 million to aid efforts.
Digital Government
Agency-owned PCs could soon be relics of a bygone era
Veterans Affairs Department CIO Roger Baker predicts employees will have to buy their own computers for work in the near future.
Digital Government
Video: The Measured Man
Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist turned computer scientist, has a new project: charting his every bodily function in minute detail. What he’s discovering may be the future of health care.
Digital Government