Last week, CyberScoop hosted the first annual D.C.-based CyberWeek, including dozens of events spread across the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area. The anchor event, CyberTalks, featured speakers from government and industry alike, spreading the message that all...
Imagine if Apple spent 90 percent of its IT budget maintaining legacy systems. You might still be looking up facts on your iMac via an Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROM or trying to make room for decades of hits on your first-generation iPod. As a consumer, it’s hard to...
For health care startups looking to capture market attention, the climate has never been tougher. According a recent article in the Independent and a report released last month by Seattle-based PitchBook, seed-stage financing has been sliding for the last two years,...
There are many challenges facing today’s cities, including aging infrastructure, rapid development, climate change and populations growing at unprecedented rates. And, as budgets shrink and populations rise, the pressure is on for local governments to accomplish more...
If you are an American adult, odds are that in September, your information was hacked. The news of the Equifax breach, where 145.5 million U.S. consumers had their information stolen, is only the latest in a series of widescale data breaches over the last few years....
Pursuing innovation in health care is an essential part of providing the best care for patients. In recent years, precision medicine, which aims to improve efficiency and treatment for patients by using genetic, environmental and lifestyle variabilities to personalize...