Digital Government
The forgotten mapmaker: Nokia has better maps than Apple and maybe even Google
It's impossible to create a perfect map, but that hasn't stopped Nokia from trying. Here, we go inside the company's neverending drive to create a digital copy of the world.
Digital Government
Happy birthday, NASA! Here's what might have happened if you were never born
Our space program almost ended up under the control of the Atomic Energy Committee and the precursor to DARPA.
Digital Government
'We're literally watching the Internet be rebuilt'
A new company uses big-data capabilities to decode the inner-workings of the modern Internet.
Modernization
iPhone 5? Yawn. What will the 'phone' of 2022 look like?
A romp through the weird, scary, awesome future of mobile communications.
Digital Government
Moondoggle: The forgotten opposition to the Apollo Program
For most of our lunar adventure, a majority of Americans did not support going to the moon. On the 50th anniversary of JFK's "We choose to go the moon" speech, we examine why.
Digital Government
How Google builds its maps—and what it means for the future of everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.
Modernization
Apple spikes drone-tracking app
A new app-store rejection should remind us that Apple's gatekeeping may not be good for journalism.
Emerging Tech
Curiosity Rover busts out the telephoto lens
Even better photographs of Mt. Sharp, the rover's eventual science destination.
Emerging Tech
Curiosity scientists select random rock on Mars to shoot with laser
N165 is the (un)luckiest bit of basalt on Mars. Which is saying something because there is a lot of basalt on Mars.
Emerging Tech
Video: Where the Mars Curiosity Rover is headed next
The Curiosity science team gave the first firm indication of where they might be driving next.
Digital Government
To model the simplest microbe in the world, you need 128 computers
What a pathbreaking computer simulation tells us about the future of biotechnology.
Digital Government
Mitt Romney's algorithmic campaign
The Republican contender wants to reverse engineer the Obama team's data-driven tactics.
Digital Government
Government agency recruits via the source code of its web page
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying a new method to lure in design and technology fellows.
Emerging Tech
Hey, brother, can you spare a Hubble? DoD: Sure! Have two
That's right. Our military had two, unflown, better-than-Hubble space telescopes just sitting around.
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