Emerging Tech
Pilotless Air Taxis Are Here. Your Daily Commute? Still Stuck on the Ground.
If you actually want to buy a ticket on a pilotless flying taxi, China is the only place anyone claims you can.
Emerging Tech
The chip in my hand and the chip in her brain
Implanted chips are are moving from novelty to clinical reality.
Emerging Tech
To Ben Lamm, extinction is just an engineering problem
Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm explains how ancient DNA, AI and CRISPR are helping scientists pursue de-extinction.
Modernization
How to find alien technology
I wanted to know how astronomers actually go looking for life in space.
Artificial Intelligence
Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop
From the outside, Andon Cafe looks like any other coffee shop.
Artificial Intelligence
An AI opened a coffee shop in Stockholm and started hiring. Chaos ensued.
A new weekly column on the tech reshaping the world from Stockholm to Singapore, including the parts nobody planned for.
Artificial Intelligence
AI's productivity promise has a math problem
“We're stopping at individual productivity,” according to Atlassian's AI evangelist Sven Peters, and that is hampering true transformation.
Emerging Tech
The man who built the web wants to fix it
Addictive algorithms are a design choice, according to Tim Berners-Lee.
Emerging Tech
Robotics ethicist calls for stronger US guardrails as automation accelerates
Automation is advancing while the rules are not, the research lead for robotics, ethics and society at the Robotics and AI Institute warned.
Artificial Intelligence
‘Team Human’ vs. AI: MIT expert issues warning on artificial general intelligence risks
Artificial general intelligence — smarter-than-human AI capable of performing virtually all tasks — risks spiraling out of human control, MIT professor and Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark said.
Artificial Intelligence
How much did AI really impact the election?
AI tools can produce realistic deepfakes and synthetic audio that influence public opinion.
Policy
What Trump 2.0 means for tech and AI regulation
Tech CEO Elon Musk’s growing influence in the Trump transition was at the forefront of discussions.
Nextgov Sponsored
A Testing Ground for Tech: OCR 2019 Explores the Art of the Possible for First Responder Community
Two technology giants joined forces to create a unique experience for first responders, bringing together the crisis management community with technology innovators who help empower them to respond to any disaster, natural or manmade.
Nextgov Sponsored
When Cyberattacks Turn Physical, Tech Proves Vital to Response at OCR 2019
During Operation Convergent Response 2019, a simulation illustrates how technology helps cyber teams and first responders mitigate a powerful ransomware attack on critical infrastructure.
Nextgov Sponsored
Ecosystem of Tech Powers Emergency Responders in Real Time at Operation Convergent Response
During Operation Convergent Response 2019, technology takes center stage as AI and telehealth tools demonstrate emergency response and communications in a decontamination simulation.
Nextgov Sponsored
Technology Fuels Efforts to Quell Wildfires at OCR 2019
As wildfires ravage different parts of the country, a demonstration at Operation Convergent Response 2019 shows how coordinated efforts fueled by technology can help first responders on the ground tackle a blazing inferno.
Digital Government
Be Boring When You Need To, Innovate When It Makes Sense, GSA CTO Says
“We have an incredible allergy toward failure,” said General Services Administration's top technologist.
Digital Government
From Word Processors to Cloud Computing: 40 Years of Tech at Department of the Navy
It's come a long ways from 300 baud modems and original IBM PCs.
Cybersecurity
Hacking Back Could Lead to Cyber Vigilantism, Lawmaker Says
Rep. Jim Langevin warned authorizing hacking back could result in collateral damage.
Cybersecurity