Some ways to master the essential tools to protect your privacy without sacrificing the convenience of modern smart technology.
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Transit buses in the Silicon Valley city are traveling 20 percent faster following a technology upgrade that gave them traffic signal priority at certain intersections. The project, an official said, is scalable. -
As one of its first operational AI projects, Mississippi’s Innovation Hub is piloting Procurii, a chatbot designed to address knowledge gaps. The proof of concept is intended to augment tech procurement processes.
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With the Ohio city pursuing major redevelopment, officials have launched an online permitting portal they hope will ease that effort. Cleveland’s building director explains what’s happening — and what comes next.
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Melissa Scott was a veteran of Philadelphia IT before taking the lead as CIO in 2024. Her experience gave her insight into how the city should approach new technologies to best support staff and residents.
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From Pilot to Launch: What will it take to scale AI in government?
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As fears of an AI “bubble” persist, officials and gov tech suppliers are looking to move past pilots and deploy larger, more permanent projects that bring tangible benefits. But getting there is easier said than done. -
Artificial intelligence has been dominant for several years. But where has government taken it? More than a decade after the GT100's debut, companies doing business in the public sector are ready to prove their worth.
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The boom of early Internet in the mid-1990s upended government IT. The rise of artificial intelligence isn't exactly the same, but it isn't completely different. What can we learn from 30 years ago?
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The group has raised questions about the use of the cameras by the Joplin Police Department, citing red flags about details they record that can be used to track motorists for nonpolice reasons.
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Speaking to the challenges of ed-tech procurement, Lisa Berghoff of Highland Park High School said school districts should overlook hype and focus instead on whether a new tool is accessible and backed by sound research.
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City Council members are mulling policy for the devices that lines up with neighboring local governments and state law, too. The goal, the police chief said, is to ensure their safe, responsible use.
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The Trump administration plans to sue states for their artificial intelligence laws, but how the push is affecting work on future legislation depends on a state’s politics.
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Centralized IT shops are meant to avoid the kind of gov tech debacles that make the news. But they also, argues state IT veteran Dan Kim, bog down the process and stand in the way of innovation.
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The funding, led by Blueprint Equity, comes as AidKit touts its ability to help state and local governments weather changes in federal funding. AidKit launched four years ago and has worked with more than 200 clients.
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State officials have hired Civix to provide new software, updating its voter registration database and election management system. Its current solution is more than 20 years old, and is now used only by Pennsylvania.
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A bill from state Sen. Tom Umberg seeks to ensure companies collecting such information use it only for the purpose for which it was collected. Once that is done, the data must also be deleted.
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A cyber attack in late 2024 exposed names, dates of birth, student identification numbers and Medicaid identification numbers, but not Social Security numbers or financial information, of current and former students.
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An Honors Program at Central Michigan University challenges students to consider philosophical questions around artificial intelligence, like the nature of sentience and the ethics of using AI tools on assignments.
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