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New Movie Chronicles Rise and Fall of Government’s First Secure Smartphone Devices
BlackBerry devices were at one time almost completely ubiquitous in government service.
Emerging Tech
3 Updates: Hackers Eye ChatGPT, Virtual Military Training Gets Photorealistic and NASA Picks its Simulation Winners
There have been some pretty important developments in a short time.
Emerging Tech
ESA Lets People Plan and Execute JUICE Spacecraft Missions in New Video Game
The real-life JUICE mission will be the first to study Jupiter’s moons with such a high amount of detail.
Ideas
Artificial Intelligence and Drone Tactics Maneuver into Advanced Military Simulations
The war in Ukraine has made drones a powerful frontline weapon, more user-friendly AIs have been created, and the quality of computer graphics has also improved.
Emerging Tech
From ChatGPT-3.5 to ChatGPT-4: A Quantum Leap in Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Capabilities
New features allow the program to accomplish things that no computer ever could before.
Emerging Tech
NASA Asks for Public Help with the Second MarsXR Challenge
The second challenge will feature a mission storyboarding component, enabling non-programmers to participate.
Emerging Tech
New AIs Make The Mainstream
Artificial intelligence technology is now moving ahead at warp speed.
Cybersecurity
How SBOMs Can Eventually Help to Secure Government’s Software Supply Chain
No agency has yet to require them in any major way.
Emerging Tech
Video Game Technology Tapped to Medically Train Astronauts for Future Moon and Mars Missions
Ultimately, lives might depend on the quality of that training.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Weigh in on the Ethics of Next-Generation AI
The release of a powerful and publicly available AI has raised questions about the technology's potential and points of concern.
Emerging Tech
The AI Behind ChatGPT Looks to Visualize the World
Nextgov explored the image-generation capability of OpenAI's DALL-E artificial intelligence program.
Emerging Tech
One of the Most Powerful AIs Ever Created Makes its Public Debut
Nextgov reviewed the newly-released public version of ChatGPT.
Emerging Tech
Expert Analysis of Dangerous Artificial Intelligences in Government
The “real risks” of AI come from a lack of governance and risk understanding, according to Navrina Singh, CEO of Credo AI and a member of the Department of Commerce’s National AI Advisory Committee.
Cybersecurity
Experts Weigh in on Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Election Cybersecurity
Both voting systems and the voters themselves could be targets of malign influence.
Cybersecurity
Can Service Meshes Help Bring Legacy Government Applications into Zero Trust?
The Biden administration’s imperative to move to zero trust could prove challenging for agencies with still-functional legacy systems.
Emerging Tech
Vote Now for the Future of Robotics
The European Union's Robotics4EU initiative aims to give the public a voice on how comfortable they are with certain types of robots and artificial intelligence.
Policy
The World Gets Ready to Change the Fundamentals of Measurement, Again
The organization in charge of measurement standards is considering a change to one of the most basic forms of measurement.
Emerging Tech
Artificial Intelligence Continues to Evolve in Government and Elsewhere
AI that started out simply tackling robotic process automation-type tasks is slowly evolving to take on more traditionally human and creative duties.
Ideas