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Plus, a mapping tool helps inform the permitting process, tribes in New Mexico get $10 million for digital equity, and more.

The City Council will consider a two-year lease of 10 automatic license plate-reading cameras, technology already in use in nearby Santa Cruz and Watsonville. In the latter city, its cameras helped catch a suspect in a Capitola fatal hit-and-run.

Hawaii’s capital city is piloting artificial intelligence-based software for building plan reviews, and will fully implement a new platform that went live in February. Updates to a third system are planned this year, all in the name of faster permitting.

The Alli Connect platform uses machine learning technology to help first responders connect with mental health professionals before their problems become severe and prioritizes user privacy.

City councilmembers in Aurora, Ill., this week approved spending nearly $1.4 million to grow the network to additional parts of its water system. The work will wrap an accelerated fiber expansion to water locations begun in 2022.

A facility under construction at Springfield Technical Community College, newly named the Richard E. Neal Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, will have a cyber range for the region's university students.

The cloud-based software can help public agencies better align their strategic visions with capital, operational and personnel budgets. The move comes at a busy time for the rebranded gov tech vendor.

The 22-person Indian crew aboard the cardo ship, the Dali, which was involved in an accident in Belgian waters eight years ago, had set off on a 28-day voyage to Sri Lanka after spending the weekend in Baltimore.

In Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Utah, lawmakers this session are trying to balance digital privacy and children’s mental health issues as they seek to implement social media mandates.

Starting in 2025, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will include problem-solving tasks that will be at least partially scored by AI, potentially demonstrating a new use case for the technology.

Newer vehicles come with safety features including high-voltage batteries, advanced restraint systems and other onboard technologies that can cause difficulties for first responders trying to extricate a crash victim.

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is asking residents with home surveillance cameras to register their devices with law enforcement, a move which officials say will improve the ability to solve and deter crime.

Clinical psychologist Lisa Strohman connects technology overuse with rampant mental health problems in young people, and she says they will need help from parents, teachers and administrators to deal with this.

After years of unlicensed operations in North Carolina, a tech firm used by police to capture license plate data now risks being banned from business in the state if it misses a key application deadline.

CIO Mirán Fernandez told the City Council that a cyber attack created an opportunity to rebuild a free Wi-Fi service that hadn't followed established protocols during implementation back in 2004.

Fake videos designed to persuade Missouri voters would be banned within 90 days of an election under legislation that won broad support in the state’s Legislature Wednesday.

In a virtual panel hosted by e.Republic, the Center for Digital Education’s parent company, ed-tech leaders shared thoughts and advice on AI, cybersecurity, the looming fiscal cliff and the importance of collaboration.

The digital education company Edmentum will add curriculum materials from the nonprofit America Succeeds to its career and technical education courses to help students build “soft skills” like critical thinking and creativity.

Reducing vehicle miles is the most powerful way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, an executive at StreetLight Data said. Its new 2024 U.S. Transportation Climate Impact Index ranks the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan areas.

Experts say safe and effective use of artificial intelligence requires transparency, explainability and auditability. Users of the tech also have to trust the people who made it.

CISA has published a draft of a new set of federal rules that require critical infrastructure entities to report cybersecurity incidents and ransomware payments, opening it up to comments.

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"We don't do any predictive policing or use artificial intelligence to predict where crime will occur. We don't use any predictive analytics," said Joe Leibold, chief of the Waterloo Police Department.

Lawmakers are considering laws that would let officials reduce the number of voting machines and put pictures of all ballots online. Others would criminalize deepfake campaign ads and eliminate using ballot QR codes to count votes.

Kansas-based QTS Realty Trust will build a more than 210,000-square-foot, two-story data center in Irving, Texas. Plans are to commence construction in August. The project is just the latest in the area’s robust market for data centers.