NOAA's upgraded technology draws a bead on hurricane season
With a busy storm season ahead, the agency adds more supercomputing muscle to its modeling programs.
Projectors light up large venues, with iOS, Android control
Epson's new PowerLight 4000 series produce enough lumens for just about any room and have an app that gives users full control from iOS and Android devices.
Secure key drive polices itself to protect the enterprise
Kingston's DataTraveler 4000 drive, with ESET's ClevX DriveSecurity, keeps data and networks safe without significantly slowing down transfer times.
30-year showdown: IBM PC vs. Apple iPhone
While marking GCN's 30th year, we're taking a look at how far computing has progressed in three decades. It's no secret that PCs have advanced greatly in the intervening years, but how does an IBM PC stack up against an iPhone?
Caterpillar's rugged Android phone suited to gov's dirty work
The company known for big yellow construction equipment has a rugged, speedy and surprisingly light smart phone for the field.
Citrix Receiver now supports Android smart-card authentication
The software supports CAC and PIV card authentication, and meets NSA and DISA requirements for secure Bluetooth communication.
NASA could take 3D food printing to Mars, and beyond
The agency wants to test 3D food printing for long space flights, a plan that could have larger implications down the road.
Leap Motion shows how gesture control can beat touch screens
The company's new controller, due in July, can give desktop users touch-like control, without the touch, of Windows 8.
NASA, Google to explore quantum computing in AI project
The new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA Ames will use the incredible speed and unique approach of quantum computing to try to advance machine learning.
When it comes to technology, government is a unique animal
The products and features drawing big crowds on the FOSE show floor would be ignored most anywhere else.
County goes from ECM to ETM, and one letter makes a huge difference
Eaton County, Mich., installs Laserfiche 9 to move to the next phase of document workflows: enterprise transactional management.
Stealth releases fanless, silent mini PC
The company's latest Little PC, with a solid state hard drive and Intel mobile processor, uses an extruded aluminum chassis to dissipate heat.
The coolest new public-sector tech at FOSE
From a case that makes any smart phone super-rugged to a secure key drive that lets you take everything, including your OS, with you, here's what impressed us most.
Kodak unveils 3 cloud-oriented scanners at FOSE
The company says its new applications are designed to help public-sector agencies deal with tight budgets and compliance standards.
Tomorrow's tech on display at FOSE
Exhibitors on the show floor at FOSE 2013 offer technologies that can help agencies meet 21st century challenges.
UEFI expanding from PCs into mobile devices, even heavy equipment
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which replaced BIOS for booting Windows 8, is moving into mobile and non-PC devices.
The key to surviving the Blue Screen of Death blues
When the dreaded screen hits, as it did for John Breeden II recently, it's best to have already expected the worst.
Unbreakable encryption remains a pipe dream, even on a quantum Internet
Despite efforts to use the principles of quantum computing to create unbreakable encryption, the system fails outside a lab or highly controlled setting.
What's next for data centers: Virtualization and SDN take over
Entirely virtualized, software-defined data centers will change service delivery for everyone from the citizen to the warfighter, experts say.
New techniques behind Energy's plan for exascale computing
Scientists at the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Lab are working toward building an exascale computer that by 2020 could be powerful enough to model the human brain, cell by cell.
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