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Students at Crest High School in North Carolina are receiving Electronics Technician Association International professional certifications, qualifying them to work with direct or alternating current and digital circuits.

LA Secure, a new free app for riders of buses and trains across the Los Angeles Metro system alerts riders of malicious links, rogue Wi-Fi signals and other cybersecurity threats associated with using public transit Wi-Fi.

SolarWinds’ latest annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey glimpses into state and local government priorities, including a focus on access management and concerns over curiosity- and reputation-driven hacking.

Still, Pennsylvania hospitals face a record-setting surge of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, causing overcrowded emergency rooms, cutbacks of non-emergency surgeries and patients being cared for in make-shift spaces.

Richland School District’s website is back up and running this week after a ransomware attack prompted the hosting company to shut down thousands of websites. District officials say no sensitive information was at risk.

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During an Ector County, Texas, Commissioners Court meeting, Net Ops Communication made a case for using a portion of Ector County’s $32 million of coronavirus relief funds to lay high-speed fiber-optic lines in the area.

ZeroAvia, a startup that aims to integrate hydrogen fuel cells with electric motors to power zero-emission aircraft, said Tuesday it will open a new research facility at Paine Field airport in Everett, Wash.

Despite early misconceptions that the Space Force was not a real branch of the military, organizers have been recruiting high school and college-age students, as well as adults from Lima and other areas in Ohio.

What started off as a wrong turn has turned into a home and career for Chris Cabaldon. Through innovation and risk, he has been able to help change West Sacramento into the thriving community it is today.

The latest talks between the federal government and the city of Portland, Ore., on police reform have led to a couple of major agreements, including a body camera measure that will involve Justice Department approval.

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The San Francisco Department of Public Health was forced to shut down six COVID-19 testing sites early due to a software glitch that crippled both patient registration and sample collection.

According to research, Washington's digital contact tracing app, WA Notify, plays a key part in COVID prevention. It gains about 2,000 users each week and utilizes Bluetooth to measure proximity between users.

The recently proposed legislation would require an update of the state’s websites, implementation of modern customer service experiences and a transition from paper processes to more intuitive digital formats.

Following its acquisition by HackerU last year, the cybersecurity education company Cybint is partnering with more than a dozen higher ed institutions across the U.S. to implement expedited workforce training programs.

The fresh capital signals ongoing optimism for the local government tech space. ClearGov and competitors are trying to win more budget management work as federal infrastructure dollars get ready to flow.

Websites went offline last week after the college and K-12 digital communications and marketing platform was hit by a cyber attack. The firm said that there is no evidence that data was compromised in the attack.

The state of New Mexico built a cloud-based platform during the pandemic to support the Department of Finance and Administration’s management of grants and funds from the emergency rental assistance program.

Birmingham City Schools is spending $29.5 million on extra instruction, after-school care and intersession periods for schools like Brown Elementary, where reading proficiency is about 13 percent.

The state’s 2022 legislative session will seek to address the growing shortage of teachers across all subjects, falling student proficiency scores and grades after 22 months of hybrid classes, school choice and more.

The Bay Area’s seven-day average of new cases soared to more than 243 per 100,000 residents on Sunday, up from 11 per 100,000 residents just a month earlier.

"We're now at a point that we have not seen through this pandemic," Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian , the state's chief medical executive, said Tuesday. The Detroit area is hardest hit with the highest hospitalization rate in the state from the virus.

The metro area has the nation’s fourth worst job shortfall from the “pandemic recession,” Fed economists wrote in their report. The area had 8.1% fewer jobs in October 2021 than it did prior to the pandemic.