Despite once achieving high visibility and big successes, government-sponsored gamification projects have fallen on hard times, and nobody in government seems willing to drop a few more quarters into the machine to continue playing.
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IoT Going to War on Land and Sea
Despite the seeming hegemony of the Internet of Things, there are a couple places where the tiny sensors have yet to travel. One of them is deep in the world’s oceans, and the other is on the frontlines of today’s modern battlefield. The Army and Navy mean to change that.
Captcha Technology Evolving to Combat Test-Aware AI
The next thing in biometric authentication could be a new version of something already familiar to web users — Captcha, the tried, true and too often maddening method of convincing a site you’re not a bot by typing in distorted letters and numbers on the screen.
NextGov: One Government Tech Advances, Another Risks Total Collapse
This week’s NextGov column focuses on two government technologies following vastly different paths. In the fist, we find Threat Hunting making serious inroads. But a new GAO report says another technology, GPS, is in danger of total collapse.
NextGov: Drones Stepping Up To Public Safety Roles
In a NextGov column last year, I predicted that drones would step up to a new public safety role, with both officers and public volunteers piloting the craft. With amazing drone rescues saving lives, that future is close at hand.
CSO: Top Tools to help with European Union Privacy Laws
Running behind on meeting the EU’s new GDPR privacy rules? These tools can help you meet the requirements and stay in compliance by deadline.
GovernmentCIO: Pentagon Developing Advanced Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon plans to take artificial intelligence to the next level, particularly with regard to analyzing the millions of hours of video collected by unmanned aerial aircraft and other sensors in Iraq and Syria.
NextGov Explores How Technology Can Help Mitigate Hurricane Disasters
Unfortunately, we don’t yet have technology that can prevent a storm of the magnitude of Hurricane Harvey from devastating our cities and towns. But it can help in the response, and even provide valuable information for citizens trying to survive a catastrophic event.
New Security Tool Uncovers Spoofed Websites and Apps Anywhere
A new breed of threat is taking a different approach, setting up fake websites and apps that appear to be legitimate, but can be extremely dangerous to anyone fooled into trusting them. NextGov investigates those threats aimed at the United States Postal Service.
Tenable Network Security
Two years after a data breach at OPM compromised personal information of tens of millions of current and former federal employees, agencies need to move from making short-term fixes to implementing long-term strategies. Learn how at Tenable Network Security.