Emerging Tech
Video: This Drone Is Your Personal Cameraman
It weighs less than 250 grams and captures 4K video.
Digital Government
Future Smartphones Will Tell You What’s Killing Your Plants
By amassing a huge library of leaf images, scientist are training computers to diagnose the diseases that threaten our food supply.
Cybersecurity
Is the Transportation Department doing enough about auto cybersecurity?
GAO says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should determine how it would respond to a cyberattack on a high-tech car if it happened on the road.
Emerging Tech
NASA’s Cutting-Edge Plan to Prevent an Asteroid Strike is Straight out of Science Fiction
The truth is, there's not much we can do if an asteroid veers too close to Earth.
Modernization
Public/private relationships crucial for tech progress
As innovative technologies such as cloud and big data accelerate, federal IT managers are looking to the private sector for help.
Cybersecurity
When Will We Ever Learn? 92 Percent of Hacks Detected Months After the Fact
Ninety-two percent of all data breaches are detected by someone else besides the target.
Cybersecurity
Senator looks to counter botnets
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) teased plans for legislation against the scourge of botnets at a Georgetown appearance.
Digital Government
The money factory needs a CTO
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is seeking a new "currency technology officer."
Cybersecurity
DARPA seeks to boost cyber attribution
DARPA wants to use biometrics and other tools to improve a key element of U.S. cyber deterrence strategy.
Cybersecurity
My Bad! Employee Slipups Lead to More Government Hacks Than Cyber Espionage
Often, the accidental breaches were discovered while in the process of dissecting intentional hacks.
Modernization
NSA official: ICITE could boost metadata capabilities
Regardless of the source of metadata, "you're going to get improvements by merit of how the data is tagged and how the attributes are assigned," NSA Deputy CIO Sally Holcomb said.
Cybersecurity
FEMA tunes into social media for operations
FEMA is adding public-facing social media to the operational data streams used by its watch centers in civil emergencies.
Cybersecurity
Risky clicks continue to keep too many hackable
In its latest data breach report, Verizon's team lays out the tried-and-true methods hackers are using to own enterprises – and the ways enterprises can fight back.
Emerging Tech
Q&A: The Nanotech Future of the American Farm
USDA's nanotech team thinks small sensors could help farmers grow more with less.
Digital Government
Google Launches In-House ‘Startup Incubator’ to Stop Employees from Leaving Other Startups
The endeavor will be codenamed “Area 120".
Modernization
GSA sets summer expectations for EIS, Alliant 2
GSA has given vendors a heads-up on the next steps for its $50 billion EIS telecom contract and the Alliant RFPs.
Emerging Tech
GE Building World’s Largest Jet Engine with 3-D Printed Parts
The company has been quick to use 3-D-printing technology, computer-aided design and new materials to render parts once impossible to make using conventional methods.
Emerging Tech
Because of Technology, Future Presidents Might Have to be Groomed from Birth
Increasingly-connected technologies will capture all of our missteps and store them forever, one expert says.
Cybersecurity