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Service Dogs Can Help Veterans with PTSD – Growing Evidence Shows They May Reduce Anxiety in Practical Ways
Unlike emotional support dogs or therapy dogs, service dogs must be trained to do specific tasks.
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Lessons From 30 Years of Government Reform Efforts
There’s much that newcomers to government should learn from the past.
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Closing the Cyber Skills Gap Will Take New Technologies in Addition to New Talent
The cybersecurity resources gap is no longer a problem we can solve with humans alone.
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Robinhood App Makes Wall Street Feel Like a Game to Win – Instead of a Place Where You Can Lose Your Life Savings in a New York Minute
Gamification has a dark side too.
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Why You Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine – Even If You've Already Had the Coronavirus
COVID–19 vaccines offer safer and more reliable immunity than natural infection.
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People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – and Paid a Price
If we have anything to learn from the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, it is that a premature return to pre-pandemic life risks more cases and more deaths.
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Program Lets Users Design Their Own Quantum Computers
This is the first time that most people will be able to “touch” quantum computing.
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Without Threat Intelligence, AI is Just a Buzzword
Smart threat intelligence starts with good data.
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Why Can't the IRS Just Send Americans a Refund – or a Bill?
At least 30 countries permit return-free filing, including Denmark, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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What Trump Got Wrong About Protecting GPS Users and America
The Global Positioning System has become the world’s most widely used tech utility.
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Do You See Yourself in the Room?
This moment in time presents a unique opportunity for the government to embrace representative innovation.
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Why Would Anyone Buy Crypto Art – Let Alone Spend Millions on What's Essentially a Link to a JPEG File?
Within the past few months, activity and prices seemed to snowball. Then the Beeple sale happened.
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Digitization Will Help Public Procurement Comply with FAR in the Biden Era
Procurement rules are changing.
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Commercial Cloud Outages Are a Wake-Up Call
As cloud computing’s versatility gives it the potential to become the easily identifiable “central nodes” of America’s economy, these policies are needed to ensure resilience.
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Billions of Cicadas May Be Coming Soon to Trees Near You
The key feature of Magicicada biology is that these insects emerge in huge numbers.
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It's Not Just a Social Media Problem – How Search Engines Spread Misinformation
Search engines learn to serve you what you and others have clicked on before.
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How Video Game Technology Helps DOD and Schools During Pandemic
Gaming is an underappreciated learning tool.
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Practical Steps to Managing Supply Chain Risk
Like with any new agency initiative, nothing moves forward without executive sponsorship.
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