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The city, part of North Carolina's Research Triangle, is using a digital twin model empowered by GIS and artificial intelligence to plan for and address urban heat. It drives understanding of how development and heat will interact.

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2028 for the new fire station at a cost of $10.2 million, an increase of $1 million from the 2023 estimate. Washington State University will share the costs of the building.

As governments grapple with how to roll out generative AI — or whether they even should — policies in Seattle, New Jersey and California aim to to be broad, easy to understand and relevant in the face of change.

Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge will attend the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, showing off app concepts they built using an Apple-developed coding language.

A $50 million donation from an alumnus will establish the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, which will be housed in a new building and likely include new classes and degree programs.

Like many cities, Albert Lea, Minn., is suffering from a shortage of EMTs and has embarked on a pilot with the Mayo Clinic and a nonprofit to provide resources to help people who repeatedly call 911.

Google's new “AI Opportunity Fund" aims to teach 1 million Americans AI skills by providing grants to partner organizations, which will cover a new AI course offered online through Coursera.

As a rise in cyber and ransomware attacks on health-care facilities leaves hospitals vulnerable, legislators and health-care providers are hoping to work together to improve cybersecurity measures.

The country’s first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-haul trucking.

Net neutrality has now been a partisan football for more than two decades, dating back almost exactly to when high-speed broadband connections began to supplant dial-up modems.

The new Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment gauges how colleges and universities are making use of generative AI tools, as well as their levels of investment in governance and infrastructure.

The Reading Readiness Dashboard, recently launched by the state Department of Education, allows the public to view literacy data on who is reading below, at, or above grade level in schools across the state.

Plus, $204 million is made available for Internet expansion in Pennsylvania, New York’s ConnectALL launches its County Partnerships program, and more.

Business matters aside, the future is generally bright for offshore wind, leaders said at the 2024 International Partnering Forum for industry. Increasing state energy targets, however, present a stiff challenge.

Answer: Yes, until the ban goes into effect.

The new program’s goal is to boost volunteer firefighter numbers in Pennsylvania — which have fallen from 360,000 in 1970 to fewer than 37,000 in 2023 — and have firefighters ready to work full-time once they are 18 years old.

The Port of Los Angeles stands out for strong cyber defenses, but at other ports across the country, cybersecurity capabilities can vary wildly. The White House seeks to change this.

Through BRIC, FEMA invests in myriad mitigation activities to benefit disadvantaged communities, focusing on nature-based solutions, climate resilience and adaptation, and adopting hazard-resistant building codes.

To prompt class discussions about the potential consequences of artificial intelligence, teachers can draw from a long history of literature on the subject, from classic novels to short stories and memoirs.

The new technology, demonstrated Wednesday at the city’s international airport, verifies travelers’ identities by matching an ID to a photo taken at a TSA checkpoint. The system alerts on fraudulent or expired identification.

The Louisiana Department of Education's new AI task force is developing policy recommendations for K-12, and the state Board of Regents voted to create its own committee to study the use of AI in higher education.

The Silicon Valley city’s mayor helped install an automatic license plate reader at a crash-prone intersection in the east. It was the 235th such camera, and plans are to grow the network to 500 by this summer.

From Minnesota to California, technology workers are confronting a job market that, while long filled with opportunity, appears to now be oversaturated with candidates. The U.S. tech sector has shed more than 74,000 jobs so far this year.

Kanawha County Schools could receive as many as 28 or 29 battery-powered buses in the coming years, but will continue to buy and maintain diesel buses as well.

Television and radio stations routinely broadcast official watches and warnings issued by the NWS. Also, wireless emergency alerts can be received through your mobile carrier from authorized government authorities.