A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks. These user-friendly components can be assembled using only a soldering iron and a pair of pliers. http://news.poseidon-us.com/TJdRXz
Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and artificial intelligence to analyze their data, they created a simple, inexpensive tool that could expand possibilities for performing chemical analysis. http://news.poseidon-us.com/TJdRWm
OMB’s Cloud First and Cloud Smart policies put a stake in the ground for how agencies can change the way they deliver services to citizens.
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Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new insight into how the universe’s heaviest elements are forged — and could even drive advancements in nuclear reactor physics. http://news.poseidon-us.com/TJdQmN
OMB’s Cloud First and Cloud Smart policies put a stake in the ground for how agencies can change the way they deliver services to citizens.
The post From first to smart, how the cloud now underpins every federal mission first appeared on Federal News Network. http://news.poseidon-us.com/TJdQf1
GSA expects to complete a first-round RIF at the Federal Acquisition Service by the end of next week. A second round of layoffs at FAS is expected this summer.
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“I would argue the folks closer to the operational side know better than we do, and I want to make sure that it’s not all about big programs,” Rob Wittman said.
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