Facebook Rolling Out Updated News Feed
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a redesigned news feed intended to give users an interface he termed a personalized newspaper, Information Week reports. Zuckerberg said the social networking site is also aiming to open new opportunities to offer different kinds of ads as well, Thomas Claburn writes. Chris Cox, Facebook vice president of products, [...]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday the launch of its Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge. The challenge aims to develop a mobile application which will help its users to conduct health risk assessments, locate places where they can avail of [...]
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The General Services Administration Office of Government-wide Policy has issued a request for information on how to implement a privacy-enhanced, cloud-based, federated credential exchange service. The request for information supports the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange Tiger Team, a program that aims to help agencies move identity management systems on the cloud. GSA’s Deb Gallagher and [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corp. announced Thursday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar System has been delivered to the Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island in Eastern Virginia. G/ATOR is an interoperable system designed to detect and track threats such as cruise missiles and manned and unmanned aircraft. The system is the first ground-based multirole radar designed [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Tactical Technologies Office has selected ATK to support its Phoenix Technologies Program, the firm announced Wednesday. PTP is an initiative which aims to reuse components from retired or damaged satellites in the geosynchronous orbit. Through the award ATK will modify an existing geostationary bus for the Phoenix mission. ATK [...]
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