Modernization

Video: Wearable Tech That Keeps You Safe

New devices connect with your smartphone to help if you get into trouble.

Modernization

The Architect Behind the Intelligence Community's Cloud Move Retires

Longtime public servant Al Tarasiuk’s career in the IC began in 1988, with an electrical engineering job at the CIA.

Modernization

GoPro Is Getting Into Virtual Reality

Videos of snowboarding tricks, aerial drone footage, and perhaps even team sports, could become immersive, explorable worlds.

Modernization

Google Is Considering Doing Away With Space Bars

The search engine giant could lead the way for the most space-saving laptop yet.

Modernization

What Tim Cook Did and Didn’t Disclose About the Apple Watch

When it comes to the iPhone, Apple often can’t wait to tell the world how popular its new models are, but it’s a different story with the Apple Watch.

Modernization

Nationwide first-responder network starts to take shape

FirstNet has released its first draft request for proposals.

Modernization

GSA widens telecom collaboration efforts

The first of three sessions on the NS2020 strategy provided a glimpse of industry concerns about the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.

Artificial Intelligence

These Are the Tech Trends Government Might Not Be Ready For

Governments face unique challenges in fully implementing emerging technology: outdated hiring practices and concerns about the privacy of citizen data, among others.

Emerging Tech

Super Strong Mini Robots Can Haul Up to 2,000 Times Their Weight

These tiny robots' feats of strength are equivalent to a human dragging a blue whale across land.

Digital Government

What Good Is a Video You Can't See?

Police body cameras are meant to be a tool of public accountability. But even experts can't agree on how to make sure that happens.

Modernization

AWS earnings and FAA drones

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Modernization

The Unbelievable Power of Amazon's Cloud

The company's Web Services—which undergird Netflix, Healthcare.gov, and Spotify—might be the single most important piece of technology to the modern tech boom.

Modernization

Here Are the Agency Websites Google Doesn’t Think are Mobile Friendly

Bad news for some dot-govs: Google will now rank websites based on their mobile friendliness.

Emerging Tech

Intelligent Windows, Self-Repairing Concrete and Other Inventions that Could Change the World

The European Patent Office has announced its finalists for the 2015 European Inventor Awards, honoring brilliant inventions from a range of scientific fields.

Modernization

NOAA taps partners for cloud project

The public, researchers, and industry can use the massive troves of data to conduct studies and drive applications.

Modernization

Amazon Is About to Reveal One of its Biggest Secrets—the Size of its Cloud Business

Now, some nine years after its launch, AWS has grown large enough that Amazon will start to report its revenue and profitability as a separate business segment.

Digital Government

Feds’ Enthusiasm for ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ Deflates

More than 70 percent of government workers polled by Forrester Research said BYOD initiatives aren’t on their IT organization’s agenda or are a low priority.