Army unveils next chapter of recruiting comic app
The second issue in the America's Army series takes users from high school to a Special Forces medic unit.
Is Windows 8's start-up too fast?
The new OS's lightning fast start-up can leave little time -- like, 200 milliseconds of time -- for secure boot options.
China plans 100-petaflop supercomputer, and exaflops are in sight
The Tianhe-2 could achieve five times the speed of the Energy Department's new Titan, but it won't claim the top spot for long.
Say goodbye BIOS, hello UEFI; your hardware will be more secure for it
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI is a boot-level program that will replace BIOS on just about every new system from now on. Unlike BIOS, which is a set of commands stored inside the firmware of a computer's motherboard, UEFI is actually a program that can reside in non-volatile memory on a motherboard, or a hard drive, or even on a shared network drive.
Are wearable PCs for the field in sight?
The Motorola HC1 is light and rugged, features that could prove useful to military and civilian agencies.
Bigger bandwidth with just algebra
Researchers eliminate a wireless bottleneck by tackling the problem of dropped packets. All they needed was math.
Why cyber defense tech is not working
The nation's cybersecurity is still hampered by inadequate cooperation between the public and private sectors; legislation could help solve that problem.
Text analytics ready for the heavy lifting of agencies' data mining
Agencies that deal with the public in any way -- and what agencies don't? -- should be using this data mining technology now, experts say, because they'll be doing a lot of it in the future.
How models got a complex storm like Sandy mostly right
Weather forecasting is still an inexact science, but modeling techniques and high-powered computers help NOAA accurately predict the track of storms such as Sandy.
Will Apple app development move outside its control?
Developers are bending the rules to get their iPhone apps to do what they want, something agencies using iOS devices should keep an eye on.
Energy's Titan supercomputer goes to 20 (petaflops)
Oak Ridge National Labs' upgrade of Jaguar combines graphical processors with CPUs in a new low-power architecture that boosts performance tenfold.
Canary in a data mine: How analytics detects early signs of bio threats
A DHS-funded collaborative mines data from poison centers, EMS reports, population, health care infrastructure, social media and other sources.
Are your biometrics up to snuff? Free suite tests for compliance
NIST's software test suite helps to assure that biometric applications conform to NIST standards for the exchange of biometric data.
In cyber's 'pre-9-11 moment,' intell agencies turn to automation
In the face of tight technology budgets, the intelligence community will focus on cyber security, research and workforce development, said Stephanie O'Sullivan of ODNI.
What ICE's choice of iPhones says about agencies' mobile plans
Government users don't want to have to carry two phones, and instead want to be able to use their own devices at work. And since iPhones have become popular among consumers, those are what government agencies want to use.
Proactive, continuous monitoring key to thwarting cyber crime
Cyber warfare is here and if we don't shift the way we think and strengthen our defenses, we will pay the price down the line, writes Jim Flyzik.
Edit PDFs, even by talking, with Converter 8
Nuance's enterprise tool makes editing and sharing documents easy, and it integrates with the company's Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Austin opens its books via financial portal
The city's Financial Services Department stayed in-house to build a dynamic financial portal that meets the needs citizens, vendors and auditors.
Text analytics: Reading between the lines of terabytes of data
With natural language processing and statistical pattern analysis, agencies can dive deep into the tea leaves of public sentiment to detect signs of terrorism, fraud and any number of other activities. They just don’t always want to talk about it.
NOAA, FEMA Twitter feeds can help navigate Frankenstorm
Twitter feeds from federal, state and local agencies have become a prime source of helpful, up-to-the-minute news and tips.
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