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Robots, AI and Drones: When Did Toys Turn into Rocket Science?

Kids have a lot of options besides blocks.

  • By Andrew Maxwell, The Conversation
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The State of Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation

Many agencies face the same challenges when trying to implement CDM capabilities.

  • By Craig Harber
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Data Evangelists Spread the Word on Boosting Government Performance

A recent gathering of state and local officials had the feel of an old time revival.

  • By John Kamensky
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Robot Career Guidance: AI May Soon Be Able to Analyse Your Tweets to Match You to a Job

Those social media posts may point to your career path.

  • By Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Peggy Kern and Paul X. McCarthy, The Conversation
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Legacy IT Is Not the Problem

Digital transformation requires architecting an IT organization around something more fundamental to IT organizations than technology: complexity.

  • By Andrew Wertkin
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What Citizens Are Trying to Tell Us

Are we listening?

  • By Kathy Conrad
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How You Can Get Better at Picking Creative Ideas

Don't dismiss an unclear idea too soon.

  • By Stanford University, Futurity
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How Agency CIOs Can Enable Business and Reduce Risk

Visibility is essential for CIOs to accomplish their mission and meet compliance.

  • By Terry Milholland
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How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life

The shared phone was a space of spontaneous connection for the entire household.

  • By Julia Cho, The Atlantic
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What Can Drones Do to Protect Civilians in Armed Conflict?

The United Nations has been trying to figure that out.

  • By Michael Yekple, The Conversation
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Grading My 2019 GovTech Predictions

Did I pull an Icarus and fly too close to the sun?

  • By John Breeden II
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Work Is a Fundamental Part of Being Human. Robots Won't Stop Us Doing It.

Works plays a central role in human development.

  • By Jean-Philippe Deranty, The Conversation
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Our Predictions About the Internet Are Probably Wrong

It’s easy to forget how unforeseeable the “unforeseeable” really is

  • By Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic
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We're Using Lasers and Toaster-Sized Satellites to Beam Information Faster through Space

Yes, that's optical communication.

  • By Gottfried Lechner, The Conversation
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Sensitive Data Must Be Protected. That Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Also Be Used.

Two promising tools may allow agencies to share data while maintaining privacy and security requirements.

  • By Sean McPherson
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Robotics Researchers Have a Duty to Prevent Autonomous Weapons

Our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges.

  • By Christoffer Heckman, The Conversation
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Yes, We Still Need to Focus on Women in Tech

Adjusting the gender tilt in the tech workforce requires more than just filling vacancies.

  • By Geetika Tandon
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A Practical Guide to Next Steps of the Pentagon’s Vendor Cyber Certification Program

Kicking your cybersecurity can down the road is no longer an option.

  • By Bret C. Cohen
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To Stop a Tech Apocalypse We Need Ethics and the Arts

The time has come to answer the call for humanities graduates capable of crossing over into the world of technology so that our human future can be as bright as possible.

  • By Sara James and Sarah Midford, The Conversation
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Fingerprint Login Should Be a Secure Defense for Our Data, But Most of Us Don't Use It Properly

Most users remain unaware of its initial purpose.

  • By Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage, The Conversation
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