Windows 10: One experience on every device
Microsoft is retooling its internal development efforts to produce a single operating system in Windows 10 that will work across various devices.
NSF projects bring supercomputing to mainstream research
The National Science Foundation announced high-performance computing projects aimed at expanding supercomputing to researchers in the medical, social science and education communities.
Airbnb Talks Up Its Local Benefits in L.A. Amid New Scrutiny
The popular short-term rental housing company touts its economic impact as cities grapple with regulating the company’s disruptive business model.
Missouri Has Spent $11.7 Million Policing the Ferguson Protests (So Far)
Deploying National Guard and Highway Patrol forces is expensive.
Here’s What You May Have Missed Last Week
A dismal fiscal outlook for state and local governments; a smart idea from Salem, Massachusetts, and New Orleans; a big municipal power failure; Oklahoma’s Capitol is falling apart.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Defends Homeless Feeding Restrictions: ‘It’s the Right Thing to Do’
But a 90-year-old World War II vet who recently attracted major media attention vows to continue to fight the city’s ordinance in court.
Intergovernmental ‘Crisis’ Portends Fiscal Decline
Experts: States and cities will face unending and unsustainable budget problems as Washington cuts back its aid.
A New Tool for Tracking Pittsburgh's Bad Air
The 'Breathe Project' lets residents watch neighborhood pollution levels change by the minute.
Boston moving licensing and permitting to the cloud
Working with Accela and OpenCounter, the city will create a system that will work across departments to coordinate workflow, integrate a variety of backend systems and provide an improved public experience.
Cybersecurity’s not done until the paperwork is finished
The VA has been dinged – again – by the GAO because of incomplete follow-through in its cybersecurity operations, showing that it takes more than mere box-checking to make regulators happy.
Marines expand training field with augmented reality
The Marine Corps is testing an augmented reality system from the Office of Naval Research that is transforming the way Marines prepare for combat.
Azure RemoteApp supports mobile workers, scaled deployments
Starting next week, mobile and remote government IT managers will have a way to provide Internet access to their cloud apps via Microsoft’s Azure RemoteApp.
How the 50 States Stack Up in Bringing Home the Bacon
California may bring in the most federal dollars, but Mississippi and Virginia get a bigger proportion of the pie depending how you slice it.
When Cops Violate Civil Rights, It's City Taxpayers Who Pay
Of $735 million in damages collected between 2006 and 2011, officers paid less than .02 percent.
Where to Move If You Want a Job, More Money, or Lots of Single People
Digging through the new Census tool on which large cities are the nation's leaders in singles, earnings, and unemployment for younger Americans.
How Cities Can Make Money Off Discarded Cigarette Butts
Inspired by New Orleans, Salem, Massachusetts, is deploying an innovative program that cleans up the streets and steers money back into communities.
DARPA sees transparent IT as window on new threats
The DOD research agency wants to develop techniques for seeing more deeply into today’s opaque networks to more effectively combat advanced persistent threats.
U. Michigan fronts effort to push HTTPS net security
University of Michigan researchers have formed a group to establish a new HTTPS certificate authority and support their aim to ‘reinvent’ Internet security.
4 building blocks for app stack dominance
How to manage your app stacks in order to maintain uptime, maximize enterprise resources and generate consistent productivity throughout your agency.
3D modeling, printing help preserve Pearl Harbor relics
A team from Autodesk is integrating 3D technologies, including photogrammetry, LiDAR and SONAR, to create digital models of Pearl Harbor icon USS Arizona that will be used for 3D printing a model of the ship.
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