Emerging Tech
Slack Was Able to Become a $7 Billion Company by Playing Nice With Others
Slack’s ethos is one of inclusion
Modernization
Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
The battle for the Defense Department’s $10 billion war cloud is getting a lot more interesting.
Emerging Tech
Teaching Kids to Code During the Summer—for $1,000 a Week
Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?
Digital Government
1,400 Google Employees Are Demanding Transparency Around the Company’s Return to China
Google pulled out of China in 2010 because of the country’s censorship policies.
Digital Government
Space as a Service: NASA and SpaceX Find a New Way of Putting People Into Orbit
SpaceX could be ferrying astronauts by April 2019.
Emerging Tech
A Silicon Valley Startup is Giving Lithium-Ion Batteries a Much-Needed Silicon Boost
The tech needs to undergo a step change, and there are many startups currently trying to make it happen.
Digital Government
Industry Groups Push for Background Check Reform In Intelligence Appropriations Bill
With a backlog of more than 700,000 pending investigations, the groups are pushing for tools to speed up information collection and ways to reduce redundant investigations.
Emerging Tech
The Next Stop on Amazon’s Journey Toward World Domination is Your Car
Alexa, will you turn up the air conditioning?
Emerging Tech
Google’s Larry Page Thinks We’ll Soon Be Soaring Over Traffic in These Cute Flying Cars He’s Building
For now, the Flyer is clearly a novelty, meant to appeal to the ambitions and pocketbooks of wealthy hobbyists.
Digital Government
Google Search Might Return to China’s Internet, and Some Users Can Hardly Wait
If Google does relaunch its search engine in China, it will end up compliant with some of the world’s most restrictive policies on freedom of information.
Cybersecurity
DHS Stands Up New Cyber Risk Center to Protect High-Value Targets
The center will free up NCCIC to work on cyber threat sharing and incident response, officials say.
Digital Government
Even Tech Workers Think They’re Underpaid
This is in an industry where interns can make over $50 an hour.
Digital Government
Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers?
Four Stanford engineers started a club for students interested in using their skills for social-good. But then came job-recruiting season.
Digital Government
Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Forgetting About Humans
His consistent use of computer programming jargon reveals a lot about his leadership approach.
Emerging Tech
It’s Looking Increasingly Like There Will Be Three Follow-ups to The iPhone X
Traditionally, Apple unveils its latest phones at an event in September.
Cybersecurity
Trump Administration Plans National Cyber Risk Management Initiative
The effort will include the Homeland Security, Treasury and Energy departments along with smaller sector-specific agencies.
Digital Government
Europe’s Smack to Google May Only Be the Beginning
The European Commission’s record-breaking fines for Google foreshadow a larger regulatory invasion of the U.S. technology industry.
Artificial Intelligence
Google DeepMind Researchers Join Pledge Not to Work in Lethal AI
Thousands of AI researchers sign letter forgoing work on autonomous weapons.
Digital Government