Digital Government

How Boston Police Could Examine Videos From the Boston Bombing

Forensic video analysis remains a time-consuming, human task.

Modernization

Sprint Boston Network Operating in Wake of Marathon Bomb Blasts

Carrier did not receive any official requests to shut down network in area.

Emerging Tech

Social Media Plays Role in Response to Marathon Bombing

Events are unfolding on the ground and online.

Digital Government

Sketching the big picture on big data

Seventeen "big brains" from the public and private sectors offer definitions, challenges and more in new industry-funded report.

Digital Government

The Health IT Performance Challenge

Today’s regulatory landscape requires systems that incorporate sophisticated clinical decision support.

Emerging Tech

Your Itemized Federal Tax Receipt

How much did you invest in renewable energy research last year?

People

Shinseki: VA to move forward with electronic records

Veterans Affairs secretary assures senators that the VA will move forward on a joint electronic health records system, even as Pentagon officials are pausing to review their approach.

Digital Government

How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work

Like it or not, hyper-efficient job markets are on their way.

Modernization

Dish's $25.5 Billion Offer for Sprint Is All About Cord-Cutting

Dish believes the wireless high-speed Internet Sprint offers is the future of streaming TV.

Modernization

Six Reasons Why Chinese People Will Drive the Next Bull Market in Bitcoin

There’s one country where people probably won’t need much persuading to join the bit-craze.

Digital Government

The Question of Whether We Can Patent Genes Heads to the Supreme Court

Does the centuries' old method for protecting intellectual property still apply when the invention comes straight out of the human body?

Cybersecurity

NIST celebrates cyber partnerships

New "Center of Excellence" aims to widen adoption of integrated security solutions.

Emerging Tech

Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone

For years people have been urged to create a social-media will for themselves. Now Google has made doing so very easy.

People

Delinquent feds in GOP crosshairs on Tax Day

House expected to pass bill to prohibit federal employment for those with "seriously delinquent" tax bills.

Digital Government

Chinese Bird Flu Cases Rise to 60 as the Virus Starts to Spread Around the Nation

New cases of the H7N9 strain have been reported in Beijing.

Cybersecurity

Why Spires is on leave

One month later, the DHS CIO remains on paid personal leave. A fundamental disagreement over CIO authorities is at least part of the reason.

Modernization

Cell Networks Use Much More Energy Than Data Centers

Wireless infrastructure tapping into the cloud uses 90 percent of the electricity.

Digital Government

Cybersecurity Jobs Continue to Pay Better Than Others

High demand nearly erases gender gap in salaries.