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Deputies in the New Mexico county will soon have access to license plate recognition technology to monitor vehicles on roadways. Critics have raised concerns about the potential for abuse and mass surveillance.

Answer: The Cybertruck.

Speakers at the recent Micromobility America conference in the Bay Area issued a resounding call for aggressive and continued investment in the sector — particularly from public sources.

The EdSight dashboard was announced after the start of the 2023-2024 academic year and is regularly updated with new information, graphs and charts to make school spending, high school graduation and suspension rates, and other metrics transparent to the public.

Ohio's TALEN pilot program aims to create a statewide real-time crime center to create a network of thousands of public and private cameras. Records reveal several obstacles have stalled the project.

The gov tech vendor is working with DATAMARK to provide emergency responders with more access to GIS data and experts. The move reflects the growing interest in GIS to improve state and local operations.

Among the recommendations of the task force is for the city to improve its winter safety public service announcements by having the city partner with Charter Communications to do several announcements about winter safety.

Staff in the business office of the Marion Independent School District are stepping out of their comfort zone and using their expertise to inform educators and residents about school finance.

In her first year of teaching at Arlington Preparatory Academy in Baton Rouge, Megan Hall won District Teacher of the Year. A year prior, she was working at a Home Depot in the same city.

As educators learn how to navigate AI, the question remains how it will be used in the classroom, and one superintendent in Illinois says that answers must come from those at the local level.

The machines — located in convenience stores, gas stations and even bakeries — are an easy way for people to buy cryptocurrency quickly with cash, which is harder to track than a wire transfer or check.

Experts say AI is now present in everything from apps and facial recognition software to ChatGPT, which allows users to ask questions and receive human-like replies based on data harvested from the Internet.

The EPA wants to help communities figure out just how much pollution people are breathing, with a focus on disproportionately impacted communities near industrial zones and interstates.

In this interview with Jason Oksenhendler, a cloud security expert with experience with FedRAMP and StateRAMP, we cover all things government cloud security compliance.

The center uses real-time technology as well as data-driven intelligence to increase prevention, apprehension and resolution of crime, officials say. The center has helped make more than 1,000 arrests since opening in 2021.

The Appalachian Regional Commission's Partnerships for Opportunity, Workforce and Economic Revitalization program awarded the grant to Washington County as part of an effort to get some 10,000 unserved or poorly served households online.

States are starting to hire experts to navigate both the opportunities and the trickier aspects of AI. Maryland's Nishant Shah says job No. 1 is establishing a set of principles that set the foundation for everything else.

The nonprofit Black Girls Do Engineer hopes to provide its member students with STEM-related access, awareness and advocacy. The group hopes to connect 2 million students to the STEM field by 2050.

Elected Officials to Protect America held a press event last month to call attention to the urgency of addressing climate change and other concerns which could be mitigated with the speedier adoption of electric vehicles.

A Japanese startup aims to take passengers 15.5 miles above sea level in an airtight capsule fixed to a helium balloon that offers a space tourism-like experience without the same price tag of firms like Virgin Galactic.

Answer: It’s easier to ask how many won’t be at this point.

Riptides and the growing threat of sharks can make swimming dangerous, even deadly, at the popular beaches in Atlantic City, N.J. A new drone program aims to increase safety for beachgoers when lifeguards aren’t on duty.

Sabra Horne, former chief of the innovation hub within the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, discussed with ICYMI the need to train the next generation of public-sector innovators and how to do it.

Meanwhile, Florida's First Judicial Circuit Court system announced plans to cancel and reschedule some proceedings following a separate cyber attack earlier in the month.

A prototype microchip design that was revealed today by IBM could pave the way for a world of much smarter devices that don't rely on the cloud or even the Internet for their intelligence.