Emerging Tech
Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program
For two years, the company has been working to build flying robots that can deliver products across a city in a minute or two.
Digital Government
Prepare to Be Shocked
Four predictions about how brain stimulation will make us smarter
Emerging Tech
Why Conservatives Might Be Left Out of the Next Wave of Tech
Only 4 percent of consistently conservative Americans want to live in cities, but urban environments are where the tech action is
Digital Government
How DARPA's Augmented Reality Software Works
Why is the military succeeding where Google Glass failed?
Digital Government
The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work
Google is engaging in unprecedented, massive, ongoing data collection to transform intractable problems into solvable chores.
Digital Government
Computers See Your Face as a Child. Will They Recognize You as an Adult?
As facial recognition systems improve, they will get better at identifying people at different ages, even very young children.
Cybersecurity
The Hacker Who Worked on a Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
And the sensitive information he and his friends stole
Emerging Tech
CAPTCHAs Are Becoming Security Theater
Google doesn't need us to prove our humanity with distorted text anymore -- they can simulate it now.
Digital Government
In Defense of Google Flu Trends
If the system failed, it did so only in the outsize dreams of Big Data acolytes.
Emerging Tech
Man vs. Sea: The Quest for the Perfect Armor Is Nearly Complete
Slowly, humans are developing the ability to act like ourselves in the deep water.
Digital Government
Why Drugs Need Horseshoe Crab Blood for FDA Approval
Everyone who has had an injection in the U.S. has been protected by the blood of a forgettable sea creature.
Emerging Tech
This GIF Shows What Might Be Water Flowing on Mars
Thanks to seasonally warm temperatures and some iron-based anti-freeze.
Digital Government
Snipers Coordinated an Attack on the Power Grid, but Why?
A story seemingly stolen from the pages of a crime thriller, but far less comprehensible.
Emerging Tech
Introducing (1978!) Cellular Phone Service
Bell Labs explains Advanced Mobile Phone Service, available in a car near you.
Emerging Tech
Earth Resumes Surveillance of Mercury
After a two-month hiatus, the Messenger spacecraft has resumed sending home images of the sun's closest companion.
Digital Government
The Future of the Army: Fewer Soldiers, More Robots, More 'Lethality'
If Google is doing it, DARPA is also doing it, but with more lethality.
Emerging Tech
These Two Guys Tried to Rebuild a Cray Supercomputer
It wasn't easy, even though your iPhone is ten times faster than machines that used to be model nuclear weapons.
Emerging Tech
Where Do We Go From Here? 8 Hypotheses About Tech in 2014
The year ahead will be the beginning of a new cycle in the long story of humans and the tools they use.
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