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How smart is your city? NIST can help you find out.
March 04, 2022 | News, Emerging TechWith NIST's new metrics, cities can evaluate smart city projects that cross neighborhoods, infrastructures, populations, income levels and use a variety of currently deployed technologies.
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Preparing for the quantum revolution
| News, Emerging TechThe emerging computing technology offers the potential for significant advancements, but also carries the possibility of never-before-seen threats.
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Biden calls out big tech, supports greater domestic investment
March 02, 2022 | News, Emerging TechIn his State of the Union address, the president stressed the need for more research and development of emerging technologies and lauded Intel's semiconductor manufacturing investments in Ohio.
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Blockchain takes root at Ginnie Mae
February 25, 2022 | News, Emerging TechDistributed ledger technology is expected to improve data security, provenance and legal sufficiency by reducing the number of times information is handled by entities across the housing finance ecosystem.
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The next big quantum leap may require better software
| News, Emerging TechThe raw power of increasingly advanced quantum computers could necessitate advances in software to make sense of the noise.
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IARPA seeks ways to track nontrackable space junk
February 14, 2022 | News, Emerging TechRight now, more than 100 million pieces of space debris smaller than 1 cm orbit Earth.
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Crunch data while the sun shines and save it in an ‘information battery’
February 11, 2022 | News, Emerging Tech"Information batteries" can make better use of green energy by storing partially computed data for processing later, researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering suggest.
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Biden admin announces $5 billion to fund nationwide electric vehicle charging network
| News, Emerging TechThe funding comes from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Congress passed in November.
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AI could match ‘fingerprints’ of texts to their authors, under new intelligence program
| News, Emerging TechNextgov was pre-briefed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity on a soon-to-be-released, broad agency announcement that might one day help combat disinformation campaigns and human trafficking.
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AI-enabled health care: First, do not automate harm
February 04, 2022 | News, Emerging TechA procurement contract template with AI riders, algorithms that are secure and free from bias and medical devices that can be queried as to their functionality and safety will all improve the quality of health care, Aspen Institute fellows say.