Tag: Technology

Huawei’s cloud integration making progress (Global Times)

Chinese private satellite company Spacety and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) have inked a deal to jointly launch the Tiansuan constellation in...

Increased Interconnectivity Demands Stronger Federal Data Protection Protocols, Officials Say (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

Emphasizing data privacy and cybersecurity policy at the federal level is critical to preventing future ransomware threats against both private and public industries as...

What Lies Ahead for Federal IT Modernization (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

When coming to the end of an eventful year, it’s a common urge to wonder what the future holds. The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center,...

What Agencies Need to Do to Combat Shadow IT Driven by Cloud Sprawl (Aaron Kilinski, Nextgov)

Migrating to the cloud offers federal agencies huge advantages in performance and flexibility. Government services can’t effectively scale or adopt new capabilities like big...

History explains why global content moderation cannot work December (Heidi Tworek, Brookings)

Social media platforms face an all but impossible challenge: generating standards for acceptable speech that transcend borders and apply universally. From nudity and sexual...

Why we need a new agency to regulate advanced artificial intelligence: Lessons on AI control from the Facebook Files (Anton Korinek, Brookings)

With the development of ever more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, some of the world’s leading scientists, AI engineers and businesspeople have expressed concerns that humanity...

Chinese internet giants race to the metaverse (Global Times)

Chinese internet giants scrambled to snag a spot in the metaverse, a concept that has gone viral this year. The country's three online behemoths or "BAT"...

‘Slow-Boil Crisis’: DIA Needs More Capability to Track Russian, Chinese Tech Work (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The U.S. military is “in a slow-boil crisis” because of Russian and Chinese technology development, particularly in areas such hypersonics, computing, and AI, Lt. Gen....

U.S. Supercomputer to Support Renewable Energy Innovation Coming in 2023 (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, is set to gain a powerful new supercomputer that will support huge, data-intensive workloads and...

How VR is revolutionizing crisis preparedness (Meredith Balkus, Fortune)

From gaming headsets to Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, the spotlight on virtual reality  is getting bigger by the day. But instead of...

A Guide to Using Augmented Reality for Ecommerce and Retail (David Ripert, Entrepreneur Europe)

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, many consumers see brick-and-mortar retail through a different lens. Augmented reality has quickly become a core element of marketing...

Real estate has gone meta (Adam Clark Estes, Recode)

The metaverse is getting hotter. Not hot, like a delicious meal or a Finnish sauna. This mostly fictional, virtual world is getting hot like...

Digital Transformation Is Increasingly about Reimagining Manufacturing’s Business Model (Shruti Gupta, IndustryWeek)

While the adoption of technology and automation in manufacturing processes has grown significantly in recent decades, manufacturing business models have largely remained the same:...

Quality in, quality out: how to get a machine learning platform humming (Roger Nolan, ITProPortal)

Machine Learning is often presented as the cutting edge of what we can currently achieve with technology. A lot of innovation and progress is...

The 2021 NFT Market Explained (Chainalysis Team, Insights)

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have skyrocketed in popularity over the last year. NFTs are blockchain-based digital items whose units are designed to be unique, unlike...

Silicon Valley’s metaverse will suck reality into the virtual world — and ostracize those who aren’t plugged in (Katie Canales, Business Insider, India)

The metaverse has been peddled as a futuristic place where we all — sitting in our living rooms with goggles strapped to our noggins...