Month: January 2016
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The Federal Government is hiring Innovation Specialists
So you want to join 18F? Mission 18F is a civic consultancy for the government, inside the government, working with agencies to rapidly deploy tools and services that are easy […]
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Cleaning up major public and private hacks, NSA’s IAD at Crossroads
FORT MEADE, MD—For nearly a decade, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) has been focused upon weaknesses in industrial control systems (ICS) such as the (supervisory control […]
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Did a Robot Break Rubik’s Cube-Solving Record
NPR reports two guys in Kansas City, Mo., have built a robot that can solve the cube in an amazing 1.2 seconds.
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Message from National BDPA President
Photo courtesy: National BDPA Message from National BDPA President Good morning BDPA members. As my first official post as your National President, I just wanted to tell you how excited I […]
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SPECIAL REPORT: Big Data vs. Big Storms
A PTTV Special Report: WINTER STORM JONAS WASHINGTON, D.C.—Big Data, Predictive Analytics, and supercomputer weather models, accurately predict and warn millions of Americans of a major winter storm yet formed; […]
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Computer Models Accurately Forecast Historic Megalopolis Snow
With emergency blizzard warnings spread across the Mid-Atlantic, Winter Storm JONAS is named; classic mid-latitude vortex with confluent flows locks in enough cold air for a record-breaking weekend nor’easter WASHINGTON, […]
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OCULUS Rift Software Development Kits Available for Developers
— Samsung and Oculus photos Rift SDK 1.0 Shipping to Developers with Final Rift Hardware If Virtual Reality (VR) developers are shipping a Rift title in 1Q16 (first quarter, 2016), they will […]
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Wikipedia by the Numbers, Happy 15th Birthday!
by KEITH WAGSTAFF | NBC News On January 15, 2001, a website called Wikipedia was launched. Since then, the crowd-sourced, online encyclopedia has completely changed how people find information quickly, […]
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Technology, CES, and the Beauty Market
— photo © 2016 bdpatoday LAS VEGAS, NV—With their brand mission in mind, simplehuman created an innovative makeup mirror with mini-sensors that incorporates technology to help make everyday makeup chores […]
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Kids @ Play and Family Tech Summit
CES Family Tech Summit addresses safety and education LAS VEGAS, NV—Antigone Davis is Head of Global Safety at Facebook, where she works with internal teams at Facebook and with external […]