Emerging Tech
Video: Bill Nye Explains How Not to Get Lost in Space
The Juno spacecraft is very close to its destination.
Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community Will Monitor Wearables to Find the Perfect Spy
The new program will measure each volunteer's biometric signals during their daily activities, according the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Digital Government
Inside NSA’s 'Sociotechnical' Data Experiment
The numbers alone aren't enough to change how an agency makes decisions.
Cybersecurity
Nearly One-Third of Feds Unable to Detect an Insider Intrusion, Survey Says
Federal employees might be overconfident about their IT systems' intrusion detection ability.
Digital Government
Video: How to Make Sure Facebook Doesn't Use Your Location to Find Friends
Take back a tiny bit of privacy.
Digital Government
How to Continue FITARA’s Momentum in the Next Administration
With an administration shift, the people appointed sometimes “don’t even know how to spell ‘information technology,'" one former agency CIO said.
Modernization
Why Flash Drives Are Still Everywhere
The secret of technological process is that leftover devices never truly get left behind.
Digital Government
Interior spending $50K per month on unused mobile devices
The Interior Department is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on mobile devices that are unused or unsecured, according to a new inspector general report.
Artificial Intelligence
Watch Out, Designers: AI Design Bots Getting Better at Building Websites
The goal isn’t to replace great artists, but to make everyone else into a pretty good one.
Digital Government
DARPA network shields against space junk
DARPA hit a milestone for a data network aimed at avoiding collisions in Earth's orbit.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft CEO's 10 Commandments For How AI and Humans Should Act
The robot revolution is coming.
Cybersecurity
Wyden: Rule 41 changes represent another compromise of security and liberty
Government proposals to weaken encryption and expand hacking authorities are cut from the same cloth of uninformed or ill-considered policymaking in response to security threats, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Cybersecurity
Johnson: Biometric exit moving ahead
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate committee that a key test of a biometrics-based exit system is advancing and NPPD's reorganization should move forward.
Digital Government
GAO: IRS can do a better job tracking IT performance
A GAO report recommends that the IRS improve its performance measurement and reporting practices for $2.7 billion worth of IT investments.
Cybersecurity
FDIC still weak on IT security, GAO says
FDIC has significant room for improvement in software patching and reauthorizing user access to its systems, according to GAO.
Digital Government
Should Border Agents Scroll Through Foreigners’ Facebook Profiles?
A proposed change to a common U.S. customs form would allow the government to vet travelers’ social media accounts.
Emerging Tech
Learning to Fly a Balloon to Fly a Drone
Welcome to the weird world of FAA regulations.
Digital Government
IT Modernization Fund: Hope on the Hill?
What real prospects does the $3.1 billion fund have for enactment?
Digital Government
If Elected, Clinton Wants to Keep USDS and 18F
The presumptive Democratic nominee laid out her tech agenda this week.
Digital Government