Emerging Tech

Google Wants Big Companies to Pay for Green Energy Privileges

Only power-hungry customers, like data centers, would pay the tariff.

Modernization

Yahoo's New Weather App Will Change Every Day of Your Life

The newly mobile first company has just launched a beautiful, photo-first app.

Digital Government

Make Way for the Human Flesh Search Engines

Human-controlled camera surveillance could just be the beginning.

Digital Government

Dreamliners May Fly Again, but Not From Tokyo to Silicon Valley

Dreamliners were sold with the promise of longer travel. Will Boeing be forced to take that back?

Digital Government

Mapping the Car Crash Near Misses That No One Ever Sees

Data about traffic accidents that nearly happen could help prevent collisions that actually do.

Digital Government

What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress.

Digital Government

Homeland Security Acts on Cyber Workforce Recommendations

Department is assessing its talent and looking for ways to streamline hiring, among other steps.

Digital Government

USGS's new database helps users map biodiversity

A new web site opens up more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide.

People

Uncertainty persists with DOD furloughs

Hagel, others note productivity hit and the need for flexibility

People

VanRoekel: More data coming from feds in fiscal 2014

CIO says open data unlocks opportunities for agencies and business alike.

People

Who cares about awards anyway?

If you think winning an award is gratifying, try nominating an unsung hero and see how good it feels when he or she wins.

Modernization

FCC chief’s swan song: in-flight broadband

Genachowski urging a reallocation of spectrum to allow for much faster connections at 30,000 feet

Emerging Tech

FBI Seeks Open Architecture

The agency wants nothing proprietary in a new video surveillance system.

Emerging Tech

NASA Announces the Discovery of the Most Interesting Planetary System Outside Our Own

Meet Kepler 62, a system of five planets circling a red star, 1,200 light years away.