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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the state’s second such site Monday, with $95 million in investment lined up from state, private and local partners. The initiative is expected to generate an estimated 2,000 new jobs.

Buoyed by more than half a billion federal dollars, the state’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program is accepting applications through Oct. 15 to improve high-speed Internet.

Big Basin will take a significant step toward recovery, as the California Department of Parks and Recreation holds its first public meeting to unveil three options for rebuilding the 18,000-acre park’s facilities.

The University of Alabama is embracing AI in the classroom with the Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative, which guides faculty on incorporating the technology in the classroom.

A growing number of districts across the country have enacted, or plan to enact, prohibitions on students using their mobile phones during school hours starting this academic year.

The pandemic forced universities to stop requiring standardized tests and now students must grapple with a different SAT dilemma: Is it worth the time and energy to take the test?

The Federal Aviation Administration, which has checked drone use for years, recently granted Amazon’s Prime Air program approval to fly drones beyond the visual line of sight from its pilots in parts of Texas.

Denver-based Vantage Data Centers plans to construct two large warehouses stuffed with computer servers near Atlanta in the city of South Fulton, according to recently filed state paperwork.

In Wisconsin, the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office has launched a new app in an effort to connect the community with public safety, jail and sex offender information.

The division, which debuted in January, works to provide more accessible, user-friendly and cost-effective digital services. Its new leadership team will bring a variety of essential skills in-house.

The newly available Civics Collection has videos, lessons and interactive media for instructors to embed into their curricula, or for students to learn more about civics independently.

Law enforcement agencies across the country are buzzing about drones, but what’s the real impact? Government Technology got an exclusive video look at how one rural sheriff’s department is using UAVs to change the game.

Two tech firms are adding updated radar to unmanned aircraft, hoping to give police and firefighters better eyes in the sky and options for longer automated flights. The deal could help agencies with staffing woes.

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California’s high-tech battery centers, built with thousands of lithium-ion batteries similar to the batteries in cellphones and electric cars, are solving the main shortcoming of the push for more renewable energy.

The state legislature last month approved new legislation that gives local police departments the option to target loud vehicle stereos, exhaust systems and the like with the automated listening devices.

The San Bernardino County Transit Authority recently presented the first zero-emission passenger train in the U.S., the Zero Emission Multiple Unit, in California. It should begin serving a nine-mile transit line early next year.

Clark County, home to 70 percent of Nevada voters, implemented the centralized system last year, but on Saturday, the state’s remaining counties were added. Nevada now has one database for voter registration information statewide.

“This partnership aims to improve coordination and ensure smoother operations during incidents in this critical travel area … We remain committed to working together for the safety and convenience of all travelers.”

Students request to use the restroom, visit the library or leave class through an application on Chromebooks, and teachers are able to approve or deny hall pass requests from the same application.

Opportunity Machine, in an effort to bridge the gap between academics and innovation, is offering students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette hands-on experience with local tech startups.

Researchers are working to eliminate the unknowns related to schools banning phones, trying to forge a clearer understanding of the advantages and limitations of those policies.

Many class-action lawsuits have been filed against a Florida-based data firm following disclosures that a breach might have compromised personal information, including Social Security numbers.

Five years ago, Indiana enacted a law offering tax incentives for data centers to help pave the way for the Digital Crossroads data center at the site of the former State Line Generating Plant in Hammond.

This presidential election cycle is the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new images, audio and video — became widely available for public use.