President Barack Obama spoke to an audience this week in Cleveland, Ohio, about his plan to stimulate the economy by helping out the middle class and small businesses. Obama’s talk comes on
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Tom Ridge, former secretary of homeland security and CEO of Ridge Global, has joined the board of Tamper Proof Container Systems, a Massachusetts-based security technology solutions provider. TPCS creates secure maritime and
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Aneesh Chopra, assistant to the president and associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will deliver a keynote speech at a conference aiming to improve
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NASA held a Green Aviation Summit this week at its Ames Research Center to discuss ways to make air travel more efficient and environmentally friendly. “As the world travels even more, we’re
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The White House has launched the new Challenge.gov, an online platform provided by the General Services Administration that allows federal agencies to post contests aimed at increasing public involvement with the government.
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As the federal government ups its battle against cyber attacks and threats, the civilian and military officials in charge of those operations are committed to adopting meaningful measures to protect citizens’ privacy,
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A massive computer failure is making it difficult for people to get driver’s licenses and file tax returns in Virginia, but now Gov. Bob McDonnell has ordered a third-party investigation into the
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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday introduced four new application programming interfaces that make FCC data available as web services, and unveiled a community website for “citizen developers” that provides code and tools
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Starting today, Peter Orszag, economist and former director of the Office of Management and Budget, will begin writing a column for The New York Times Op-Ed page. Orszag is a distinguished visiting
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Controversial plastic hardener bisphenol-A (BPA), best known for the extensively-reported controversy over its use in plastic baby bottles and sippy cups, has shown up somewhere new: receipts from retail cash registers. A
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