Esports gaming platforms take off in Air Force
With more than 80% of Airmen ages 18 to 35 identifying as gamers, the Air Force developed a scalable framework and unified competition structure for players.
TSA exploring mobile driver’s licenses for REAL ID identity verification
With several states exploring mobile driver’s licenses, the Transportation Security Administration wants to know what changes it might need to make so agencies can accept mDLs for REAL ID Act-compliant identification.
States wary of privacy-protected census data
Seventeen states have complained that differential privacy, the statistical method the Census Bureau is using to protect individuals privacy, makes accurate redistricting impossible.
Tweet analysis uncovers how COVID conspiracy theories evolved
Building a machine learning model to filter analyze 120 million tweets gave researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory clues about how to combat online misinformation.
California builds data warehouse to better manage homelessness
The Homeless Data Integration System will help officials identify patterns of homelessness and create a comprehensive view of the services being delivered and the interventions proving to be most effective.
FCC app measures mobile broadband access
To get better data on high-speed broadband access, the Federal Communications Commission is asking the public to download and run its Speed Test app on their mobile and home wireless devices.
VR, AR training helps forward observers direct fire support
The Office of Naval Research has developed augmented and virtual reality tools to make it easier to train the Marines who help protect infantry by keeping an eye on the ground situation and calling in necessary air artillery, mortar and naval gunfire.
States dive into unemployment system upgrades
Kansas, Wisconsin and Hawaii have begun replacing their legacy UI systems with more agile, scalable platforms.
Facing wave of retirements, Connecticut looks to digitization for efficiency and savings
A new report found roughly 200 opportunities for improvement and streamlining that could yield between $600 million and $900 million in savings.
Bandwidth issues haunt National Weather Service
A recent systemwide failure at the NWS College Park data center that impacted networks nationwide illustrates the agency’s struggles to supply web access for increasingly complex weather models.
NASA data supports agricultural analytics
NASA data is powering soil analytics that can deliver accurate and scalable irrigation and fertilization metrics and enable research into the impact of extreme weather events.
It is time for a National Strategic Computing Reserve?
Following the success of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, some experts are considering how best to marshal resources and talent to fight the next crisis.
Advanced encryption powers privacy-protecting gun registry
Researchers at Brown University have developed a proof of concept for an encrypted gun registry that places control of the database in the hands of county officials, rather than the federal government.
FCC sees data as key to closing digital divide
To ensure Americans have reliable access to high-speed internet, the Federal Communications Commission aims to build a comprehensive, user-friendly dataset on broadband availability.
NC counties test satellite broadband
Three rural North Carolina counties are participating in a pilot program aimed at improving internet access for families of school-age children via the SpaceX Starlink service.
Sandia’s QSCOUT now open for business, other quantum news
The Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed will allow researchers to optimize the internals of the testbed and experiment with more advanced implementations of quantum operations, Sandia officials said.
Can urban mining help cities improve resiliency?
Philadelphia is working on an urban mining tool that analyzes data from construction permits and building trends to identify when and where builders can find recycled materials.
Protecting open source software by analyzing community behavior
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s SocialCyber program aims to use artificial intelligence to create a dynamic situational awareness capability that can preserve the integrity and security of open source software projects.
Unpatched Exchange Servers hit with ransomware
Microsoft Exchange Servers that have not been upgraded with the latest security patches are getting hit with "DearCry" ransomware, Microsoft warned.
Surveillance camera hack exposes video from police, prisons, schools
Police departments, prisons, schools, hospitals and major technology firms were among the 24,000 organizations that had their cloud-based surveillance video breached by an international hacker group.
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