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The Dangers in Smart Cities
Smart cities make for a larger attack footprint, and more potentially devastating results from a breach or hack.
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How Cities Are Getting Smarter
There isn’t one definition of a smart city technology, but here are places governments are making progress.
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Can New Technologies Restore a Robust Federal Cyber Perimeter?
Many agencies are deemphasizing traditional notions like perimeter security and concentrating more on the concept of resiliency, recovery and ways to mitigate the effects of a breach.
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NASA May Bring a Laser-Based Internet to Space for Mars Missions
NASA will need to boost its comms to support human space travel.
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Government May Tap Older Tech to Secure Modern Infrastructure
There might be something to keeping physical switches in power grids.
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What Would 5G Technology Mean For Government?
The next big leap forward for cellular phone service is approaching.
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Gaming’s Biggest Week Gives Clues to Serious Technology’s Future
Advancements in virtual and augmented reality may get government gaming a boost.
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Can One Year of GDPR Teach the U.S. Anything on Privacy?
Technology experts reflect on how GDPR changed companies' approaches to data.
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Kids Might Close Government’s IT Talent Gap
Technology literacy rates are on the rise, likely due to the emphasis placed on STEM education in schools.
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The Government Wants To Teach Drones Some New Tricks
Recent Army contracts focus on the skies while DARPA is focused on underground efforts.
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New Technology May Soon Require a Dedicated Space Force
Whether a Space Force exists or not, the Pentagon's research arm is looking at space strategically.
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Are Government Robots Coming For Your Job?
The government’s goal right now is to promote its robot employees to higher tasks.
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Trust Me, I’m An Artificial Intelligence From Washington
People tend to question everything. So what chance does AI have?
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How to Boost Federal Email Security
National Institute of Standards and Technology issued new guidance to protect agency email.
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Government’s Growing Problem: Paying Its Technical Debt
Could automation help chip away at the technical debt agencies have accrued?
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Technology Legislation Slowly Crawling Forward
These bills could benefit the federal government's operations.
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How to Build a Better Great Wall
The idea of creating a robust, intelligent technology barrier as opposed to a static physical one has been floated before.
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How a New Law Supports Quantum Computing's Great Leap Forward
The technology could be up there with some of the major technological advancements that changed the world, like the microchip or even electricity.
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