Innovation

Mozilla Is Developing a Voice-Controlled Browser

"Hey, open a new tab!"

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Samsung’s Latest Venture Fund Us Looking For the Next Big Way to Build AI

The company hopes to find new ways of making decisions with computers.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Why Your Agency Needs a Chief Product Officer

Sometimes an IT problem is really an answer.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Technology Modernization Fund Board Doesn't Want Boring Proposals

Agencies that want a shot at funding had better make their proposals interesting.

  • By Jack Corrigan

AI Needs to Earn Our Trust, Just Like Any Human Relationship

The entire premise behind machine learning is that it learns from failure or success.

  • By Justin Massa, Quartz
Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX

SpaceX Delays Tourist Trips to the Moon

Time to make new vacation plans.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

How NIH is Organizing Its Enormous Troves of Data

The agency has a new strategic plan for how to manage, store and analyze its scientific data.

  • By Jack Corrigan

These New 3D-Printed Corneas Could Help 15 Million People See Again

It’s another marvel of three-dimensional printing, using stem cells, collagen and "bio-ink"

  • By Chase Purdy, Quartz

DHS Wants to Take a Page from the Startup Community

The agency's goal is to get ahead of emerging tech.

  • By Jack Corrigan

How the NGA App Store Put Tech Acquisition in Top Gear

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency can bring innovative software tools to government in as little as a few months.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Got A Lot On Your Mind? Try 3D Printing Your Brain

This new technology has got you covered inside and out, from head to toe.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

DARPA Wants You to Brainstorm New Warfighting Ideas

The agency wants to find the next great warfighting idea, no matter how crazy or nontraditional it might seem.

  • By John Breeden II
Passengers stand in line as they wait to pass through a TSA security checkpoint at JFK International Airport Friday, March 2, 2018. Passengers stand in line as they wait to pass through a TSA security checkpoint at JFK International Airport Friday, March 2, 2018.

DHS Has a Plan to Make You Stop Hating Airport Security

The agency is looking at ways to speed up passenger screening while improving security from "curb to gate."

  • By Jack Corrigan

GSA Wants to Help Your Agency Cash in on the Technology Modernization Fund

An upcoming workshop will teach feds how best to pitch projects to a board of administration officials.

  • By Jack Corrigan
Technicians and engineers move NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) to a work stand at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla. Technicians and engineers move NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) to a work stand at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla.

NOAA’s Newest Weather Satellite Isn’t Working Right

The satellite's “premiere” instrument gets too hot at night and engineers are struggling to find out why.

  • By Aaron Boyd

The Surprising Company Beating Apple and Google in Mobile Payments

Nothing motivates people quite like coffee.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Cybersecurity ‘Moonshot’ Plan to Head to Trump in November

An advisory group shared broad principles of the moonshot plan, but no details, Thursday.

  • By Joseph Marks

Pentagon is Planning Another Bug Bounty Contract

The contract envisions some short contests of just a few weeks and some that are ongoing.

  • By Joseph Marks
The crew of shuttle mission STS-110 eats dinner The crew of shuttle mission STS-110 eats dinner

The First Humans Sent to Mars Will Need to 3D Print Their Meals

Current 'space' food just won't cut it.

  • By Michele Perchonok, Quartz
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.

Better Government Websites Build Trust with Citizens, Silicon Valley Lawmaker Says

Rep. Ro Khanna's customer-experience focused bill would require agencies to go all digital by 2020.

  • By Jack Corrigan