Why Are There So Many Sinkholes in Florida?
As pieces of the Sunshine State collapse in on themselves, new technology offers hope for early warning.
Watch Six Months of Fracking Fires Blaze Across the Country
Maps show a symptom of the rapid spread of the controversial drilling technique.
NASA sails to the cloud with AWS, open source, migration
NASA migrated 110 websites and applications to the cloud in a technology overhaul that included using open source tools such as the Drupal content management system and Ubuntu.
CANES tech will propel future Navy networks afloat
The Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services project will standardize and consolidate systems the Navy’s afloat network.
DISA approves AWS for more sensitive workloads
The Defense Information Systems Agency authorized Amazon Web Services as the first commercial cloud approved at “security impact levels” 3-5 for highly sensitive workloads.
Happy birthday HSPD-12; there’s still a long way to go
The presidential directive mandating interoperable smart government ID cards is 10 years old this month, and represents an impressive effort to specify and implement the technology. Now we need to put it to use.
Common Core Is Becoming Even More Unpopular
New polling data reveals significant opposition to the curriculum standards.
This Alaska Locality Did Something Unusual When Renaming Its City Hall
Honoring a devoted city worker—not a politician—made sense in Fairbanks.
Los Angeles Is Starting a Big Drupal Migration
City’s IT agency announced new contract to improve its Web infrastructure.
Should Cops Have to Live Where They Work?
The question of whether police officers should live in the communities they patrol has a long and contentious history.
Orange County cleans up its voter registration list
The Orange County Registrar of Voters turned to Experian Public Sector to help it verify addresses of inactive voters and save money.
Maritime test bed lets Navy validate ISR systems
Lockheed Martin has developed a new software test platform designed to mimic naval environments at sea and ashore, which will allow the company to validate sophisticated intelligence, communications and sensor systems before they are introduced in an operational environment.
7 tactics for a smooth cloud migration
Before making the jump to the cloud, IT managers need to lay the groundwork, ensuring the right technology and security protocols are in place as well as a complete understanding of the regulatory issues affecting the project.
Drilling Industry Influence Looms Large In Energy-Rich Colorado County
Did local commissioners and drillers push to get a local reporter fired?
Mapping America's New Economy in Construction Permits
The Boston-Washington corridor is up; the Rustbelt and Sunbelt are down.
The Battle Over Government-Run Internet Heats Up at FCC
A Republican aide claims the federal agency can't overturn state restrictions.
Incident response requires forensics and storage
The growing window between compromise and discovery on networks puts a premium on forensics, and this requires effective storage of large volumes of data.
The California Drought Versus the Ice Bucket Challenge
The campaign has used an estimated 5 million gallons of water so far.
Cities in America Are Embracing the Worst Idea to Come Out of Ferguson
The tactics seem antithetical to the practices of law enforcement agencies in cities seeking to curb violence among youth.
Benchmark compares Hadoop systems
The Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPCx-HS benchmark was developed to provide performance, availability and energy consumption metrics of big data systems.
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