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Hampden, Maine, town councilors have now voted with a majority to borrow $4.5 million to build a community fiber-optic network that would reach every home and business in the Bangor bedroom community.

As New York Gov. Kathy Hochul takes office, the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) hopes that her previous local government experience can help with the group’s priorities, including broadband.

Douglas J. Guth is a Cleveland-based writer and journalist. He has written stories about technology, alternative energies and the environment for local and regional publications including Midwest Energy News, hiVelocity magazine and Fresh Water Cleveland.

If the country's infrastructure is to continue supporting its people — and if new federal funding is to be used well — then government officials must digitize, argues the CEO of Aurigo Software Technologies.

Answer: The Simpsons’ famous purple TV.

Last week, the Illinois State Police started installing license plate readers on highways near Chicago. More than 200 cameras will be installed. Speed limits will not be enforced by this system.

On Aug. 7, a ransomware attack, perhaps brought about by phishing, led to the shutdown of multiple systems in Twin Falls County, Idaho. Between 2018 and 2020, governments have seen 246 cases of ransomware.

The $1 million investment, approved by the Allegany County Board of Commissioners, will go toward equipment for six sites. The money comes from CARES Act funding and a state grant.

"We have patients that have died in emergency departments waiting for beds," said Becky Hultberg, president and chief executive of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. "In parts of Oregon, we are looking at a system in a state of collapse."

Attendees at the inaugural meeting discussed the struggles they face in hiring, training and keeping cybersecurity talent, as well as the need to give private firms more useful threat intelligence.

The Capital Area Online Learning Association and its system for enrolling students in full-time or part-time classes online is taking off in Pennsylvania, offering more electives and career pathways programs.

Pittsburgh has launched two transportation innovations to make multimodal trips easier to book and navigate, and a program to make a package of transportation options more accessible for low-income workers.

With 90 percent of the facility occupied and drawing interest from technology and cybersecurity companies, a third building is in the works, focused on academics through AU's new School of Computer and Cyber Sciences.

Researchers at the university's Dell Medical School are testing whether young people with epilepsy can use virtual reality games to forge new neural pathways that their brains will remember after surgery.

New leadership for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Another sign of climate change.

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The stationary cameras, called the Flock Safety Falcon, allow neighborhood HOAs and police officers to identify and find cars associated with criminal activity, according to a Flock Safety representative.

Colorado health officials say they cannot vouch for the accuracy of the private air quality apps that recently ranked metro Denver as the worst in the world. Instead, they suggest people rely on government-run metrics.

The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce has announced it plans to open a third downtown technology innovation center that will serve as a multipurpose center for co-working, training and entrepreneurship.

Henri drove the ocean 1 to 2 feet higher as it made landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island, with top winds of 60 miles per hour. It was southeast of Hartford Connecticut at 5 p.m. local time, lumbering along at 7 miles an hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The desperate images coming out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover last weekend underline the importance of technology and the real-life impacts when planning goes well — or not so well.  

Next year, Elon Musk said Tesla will debut a humanoid robot prototype called the Tesla Bot. Its purpose will be to perform physical labor. Musk suggested humans will be replaced in the workforce of the future.