The White House has finally decided to fire CGI Federal, the original contractor charged with creating Healthcare.gov, which was the centerpiece of President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act and which was also plagued with...
On January 3, US Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA which essentially asked if the NSA is spying on or did spy on members of the United States Congress. The National Security Agency (NSA) has now released a statement...
After the less than stellar launch of the Healthcare.gov website, President Barack Obama and his administration are contemplating their hiring guidelines when it comes to specialists in the tech industry. They are even thinking ab...
The United States Department of Justice is spending $544,338 on… their LinkedIn profile. Their goal is to “reach a large-scale professional network of existing and potential Criminal Division audiences,” said the agency. Acc...
Hand and face transplants might sound like something from a science fiction novel. Need a new face because of an accident and you can just get a transplant. Same thing for hands, right? Eight years ago science fiction became scien...
The story of the woes that the Healthcare.gov website has suffered over the past few months are well known and many people are still unhappy with how it was rolled out. Two states, Vermont and Massachusetts, have taken this one st...
According to TIME, Barack Obama will be meeting executives from the tech industry today to talk about the future of the Healthcare.gov website, as well as the surveillance that has been done by the National Security Agency (NSA)....
The USA Freedom Act aims to curb mass data collection by US intelligence agencies. However, even if the act is passed into law, because of the wording of the bill, it has been pointed out that it may not be effective enough to do ...
If you thought floppy disks were a thing of the past, then you should think again. At least if you plan on working for the US Federal Register. Why? Because the Federal Register still uses the outdated tech to receive documents fr...
Want to crack down on the Neo-Nazi movement? There’s an app for that. German authorities have created a new app, dubbed Nazi Shazam, that is intended to help curb the Neo-Nazi movement. The app operates similar to the popula...
The Affordable Health Care Act has definitely had a tumultuous couple of months. Finally it seems to be working for the most part and on Monday it was able to handle a million users, though there are still some bugs that need to b...
As a follow-up to a year long study on mobile device privacy standards, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is going to scrutinize the use of facial recognition software and the effect it will hav...
Finally, after a few months and a tremendous effort to fix the Affordable Health Care Act’s website, it seems that it is finally running smoothly, for the most part. The debacle over the HealthCare.gov website and how many p...
The US government is being ordered to pay $50 million to Apptricity for violating a licensing agreement and spreading Apptricity’s software among its military ranks without actually paying for it. The software, which tracks ...
Healthcare.gov website is practically a huge disaster for the Obama administration, and with only three days left to fix all the kinks, it appears things might not turn out well before the final day. Apparently, the website is mov...
