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Video: Google's Hands Free App Lets Your Leave Your Wallet, Smartphone at Home
A new payment method that could be even more convenient than Apple Pay.
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China Is Watching the FBI-Apple Battle Very Closely
Even if the U.S. government abandons its insistence on a backdoored iPhone, Beijing may not.
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Here’s How to Bring Your Old Laptop Back to Life
This solution might break the endless cycle of replacement.
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OMB tightens hold on data center policy
Superseding the 2010 memo on data center consolidation, a new draft guidance would elevate emphasis on cloud, shared services and savings.
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Just 13 Percent of Citizens Would Use an App to Find Government Info
Less than 20 percent of millennials want to receive information from the government on Facebook and Twitter.
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GAO: Closed Data Centers Will Save Feds at Least $8B
Agencies have saved about $2.8 billion so far.
Digital Government
32 Tech Giants Are Backing Apple in its Fight Against the FBI
If Apple obeys the FBI’s order, it would set a dangerous precedent for the future, briefs claim.
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Spectrum bill passes Senate panel
A bill backed by Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) looks to free up more government spectrum for mobile broadband.
Digital Government
Frequent NSA Collaborator AT&T is Backing Apple in its Fight Against the FBI
Apple has refused to comply with a Feb. 16 order from a federal judge to help the FBI break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
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Video: How to Prevent Your iPhone’s Security Feature From Destroying Your Data
Don't risk your data to chance.
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VA leaders cite progress on health record interoperability
Top Veterans Affairs officials testified this week that electronic health record sharing with the military is operational, while putting the brakes on modernizing their own health records system.
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Congressman on OMB’s New Data Center Policy: ‘Thank God’
The government operates at least 11,000 old-school data centers.
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The 'Fix FedRAMP' crowd agitates for change
An industry advocacy group released a six-point plan asking for improvements to help promote speed and transparency in the government process for vetting cloud service providers.
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GAO cites progress and challenges on FDCCI
GAO said agencies have made progress on data center consolidation but lamented that some of them lack savings goals.
Digital Government
The Five Most Colorful Moments From the Apple-FBI Congressional Hearing
“We’re asking Apple to take the vicious guard dog away and let us pick the lock,” FBI director James Comey said in his testimony.
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Video: Meet the New Digital Assistant Smarter than Siri
The app is called Hound and can take on more complicated requests than Siri
Cybersecurity
FBI Director Gets Schooled on Security Tech by Congressman
James Comey was unprepared for a barrage of technical questions by California Rep. Darrell Issa, during a hearing on iPhone encryption.
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Video: This App Turns Your Phone Into a Car Key
A huge convenience or a massive security risk?
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Apple Wins Round One in Its Encryption Fight With the Government
A federal judge in New York rules in the company’s favor on the same legal principle that the FBI is using in California.
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