Emerging Tech
Why Google Dominates the Self-Driving Car Market
Eleven manufacturers have test permits in California, but how many driverless vehicles does each have on the road?
Artificial Intelligence
Can You Trust a Robot?
People think machines are taking everyone’s jobs. Except their own.
Digital Government
Remembering Raymond Tomlinson, the Father of Email
The computer engineer who sent the first piece of electronic mail died Saturday. He was 74.
Emerging Tech
Can Google’s Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident?
To understand the future of self-driving cars, it helps to look back to the first lethal auto accidents, more than a century ago.
Digital Government
Who Spends the Most Time Online?
The latest Pew data shows a universal trend: Adults younger than 34 are far more likely than older generations to own smartphones and use the Internet.
Digital Government
What Makes People Actually Respond to Your Emails
Write your messages short and sweet—but not too short or too sweet.
Emerging Tech
NASA's New Posters and the Retro Travel Ads That Inspired Them
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s new collection of throwback images are a dreamy celebration of technology and human curiosity.
Emerging Tech
Robots Could Make the Supreme Court More Transparent
Computer models can determine the authorship of unsigned legal decisions with startling accuracy.
Digital Government
Can New Tech Improve Gun Safety?
For the first time in a century, gun deaths are poised to surpass car deaths last year.
Emerging Tech
3-D Printed Guns Are Not Actually All That Futuristic
What's more alarming about 3-D-printed firearms is that they aren't traceable at all.
Digital Government
Advice From the Man Who Sent the First Email: Step Away from the Inbox
"If you answer email within five minutes of receiving it, people start expecting that. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Modernization
The Long, Tortured History of Email -- and What Comes After
Email works just the way it’s supposed to, and better than it used to, but people seem to hate it more than ever.
Digital Government
What Everybody Googled in 2015
Not all of the weird stuff in your browser history is unique.
Modernization
Do Computers Need Pressure-Sensing Screens?
Apple's new 3D Touch could be revolutionary.
Modernization
Star Wars’ R2-D2: The Original Mobile Device
The bleep-blooping droid from "Star Wars" helped shape people's perceptions of how machines can be helpers.
Modernization
Never Not Online
A new survey finds one in five Americans reports being online “almost constantly.”
Emerging Tech
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.
Emerging Tech
Out of the Mouths of Bots
What building a robot in a person's image can reveal about identity and humanity
Digital Government
Tornadoes Are Still Difficult to Predict. Supercomputers Can Help.
Even the best forecasting tools can't predict monster twisters quickly enough.
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