Emerging Tech
Hey Reddit, Enough Boston Bombing Vigilantism
It's only the illusion that what we do online is not as significant as what we do offline that allows this to go on.
Digital Government
The SSA Employee Behind All the Great Data on Baby Name Popularity
Michael Shackleford was determined to avoid giving his child a common name.
Digital Government
How Boston Police Could Examine Videos From the Boston Bombing
Forensic video analysis remains a time-consuming, human task.
Modernization
Cell Networks Use Much More Energy Than Data Centers
Wireless infrastructure tapping into the cloud uses 90 percent of the electricity.
Digital Government
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Better Public Health Outcomes, and Zombies
In conclusion, zombies are awesome, and can be used as a thought experiment to probe the ethical dimensions of public health responses to disease outbreaks.
Digital Government
The True Story of the Government Programs That Tried to Build an Atomic Heart
And the craziest part of the atomic artificial heart program wasn't the atomic part.
Emerging Tech
The Best Intelligence Is Cyborg Intelligence
The best services arise from the combination of machine and human intelligences.
Modernization
Here Comes the Parade of Computing Interfaces That Want to Replace the Touchscreen
Over the next six months or so, we're going to see an explosion of new ways of interacting with computers, televisions, and mobile devices.
Digital Government
How Much YouTube Do Employees Really Watch at Work?
J.C. Penney employees are reported to have watched five million YouTube videos from the office during the month of January.
Digital Government
How Big Data Can Catch Oxycontin Abusers and Bad Docs
A team of forensic experts are trying to stanch the flow of prescription drugs into the black market.
Digital Government
Video: Russian Meteor Was the Biggest in a Century
At least that's what the early data suggests.
Emerging Tech
Walter Cronkite Demonstrates the Home of the Future in 1967
Take heart. You could be controlling your television from a panel half the size of a pool table.
Digital Government
General McChrystal on drones: 'They are hated on a visceral level'
Even the man who pioneered the use of drones in Afghanistan worries about them.
Modernization
How much of the Web is archived? Why the answer matters.
Somewhere between 35 and 90 percent of the web has at least one archived copy. That's a pretty big range.
Digital Government
Video: A computational model of the human heart
How we try to make sense of the wondrous organ, and when the mechanism fails.
Digital Government
The year in tech, 2012
The tech landscape changed everything from how we elect presidents to how we fight wars.
Emerging Tech
The next niche market for solar? Drones—yes, drones
Very high efficiency, rugged solar panels could find their first markets outside the green demographics.
Digital Government
When the nerds go marching in
President Obama’s reelection campaign brought 40 engineers into their ranks to build the technology needed to get the president reelected.
Digital Government
Data doesn't belong to the Democrats
Though the left used data successfully in the 2012 elections, just wait for 2016.
Modernization
Google's Street View sherpas tackle the Grand Canyon
Despite all our robots, humans really are the best at certain tasks, like hiking the Grand Canyon
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