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Keeping firefighters safe in prescribed burns.

The Pennsylvania House on Wednesday passed two pieces of legislation on phone surcharges, increasing the fee that funds 911 systems and establishing a new fee to fund the state’s 988 suicide hotline system.

One organization in Texas is fighting back after the Chinese-owned company launched a $1.5 billion initiative under the same name as the group — Project Texas.

These changes, required by the passage of new legislation, will expand the areas eligible to receive broadband infrastructure grants and will provide flexibility to ensure taxpayer dollars will benefit more Texans.

The system is about 30 percent finished and includes a 13-foot flood wall that is lined with grassy terraces for events and visitor lounging. A floodgate is designed to open for vehicles to pass through.

Federal officials announced expedited measures to reach the 28 million U.S. households without high-speed Internet service. Money from the new Infrastructure Law will be available to families and Pell Grant recipients.

Answer: To prevent unhoused people from using it.

A consortium of major universities will research AI's cybersecurity applications as part of the National Science Foundation's new AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION).

Residents of several Alaska communities have been experiencing Internet and cell service interruptions this week after a subsea fiber-optic network cable was cut. The cut might take up to two months to repair.

Congress is weighing whether new discoveries, like drugs and medical treatment, created with artificial intelligence systems can be patented. Currently, only human inventors have the power to patent their work.

The Walla Walla Police Department's new body-worn cameras are now in circulation for all commissioned officers. The cameras, supplied by Axon, were officially deployed earlier this week.

The state published the 2023-2024 Budget Act earlier this week and, if approved by lawmakers, it will fund IT projects at the Department of Social Services, the Department of Motor Vehicles and other state entities.

NYC will be the first major school system in the nation to offer such an expansive program, including more course offerings and the ability to take classes at non-traditional times, like evenings and weekends.

Four students at Michigan State University have entered a statewide contest with an AI-driven tutoring platform called YouLearn.ai which asks the user how they're approaching a question, rather than just answering it.

A project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a drone equipped with GPS, an infrared camera and 400 tiny “fireballs” that can be used to ignite prescribed burns from a safe distance.

When there's an event like the fast-moving wildfire that spread near Old Naches Highway last week, one of the best ways to get accurate, urgent information is the county's Alert Yakima system.

Time to see your cyber hygienist.

Lynn Fyhrlund is just three weeks into his role with the California county, where he'll be working to guide several system replacements as well as to craft a new IT strategic plan.

Career and technical education programs in fields like information technology and health care are multiplying while surging tuition costs, the prospect of loan debt and availability of jobs deter students from college.

Peachtree Corners has launched a new collaboration with Spoke to transform roadway safety and rider connectivity by delivering the first-ever Internet-connected ecosystem for vulnerable road users.

A U.S. labor board ruling has laid the groundwork for drivers from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. and other gig workers to formally unionize — a still difficult but potentially transformative task.

Rep. Mike Thompson introduced the Access Technology Affordability Act, and if passed, it would provide a refundable $2,000 credit to blind and vision-impaired people to purchase equipment that allows them to work.

The city of Philadelphia announced that Chief Information Officer Mark Wheeler is leaving the city, and Chief Operating Officer Sandra Carter has officially started serving as interim CIO this week.

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services will donate robotics kits, curriulum and training materials to a middle school, with plans to extend STEM outreach to more middle and high schools in the nation’s capital by 2026.

Klir, which sells a water management and compliance platform, has launched a ChatGPT feature for utilities. The idea is to hand off tedious and data-heavy tasks to artificial intelligence while safeguarding data.