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The technology that helped investigators track one of three men accused of opening fire in the French Quarter, killing one and wounding three, has also raised criticism about the actions of an Orleans Parish judge.
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A Charlotte nonprofit is working on creating a Web tool that will map all food sources in a multicounty region, hoping to create a resource for locating local markets, community gardens, farms and more.
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Last week, a group of Facebook representatives and state officials broke ground on Facebook's fiber Internet project in the state, part of a much larger infrastructure project stretching from Ohio to Virginia.
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One of seven grant-funded Portsmouth Police Department drones, now available regionally for public safety, can take infrared photos from 200 feet in the air showing the locations of people inside a building below.
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The state Department of Public Safety and RTI International have received a grant to test out the Pokket app and measure its effects on people re-entering society from five incarceration institutions.
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The position is part of the city’s Privacy First Policy, which was enacted in September, and aims to help govern the use of data by government and private companies. The application deadline is Jan. 3. -
Tech that can flag potentially bad police officers is scheduled to go live in Oakland this week as one of the key tasks ordered by a federal judge overseeing reforms in a nearly two-decade-old police corruption case.
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The Eugene, Ore., City Council wants to explore expanding EUGNet, downtown's open-access high-speed network, which bolsters business in the city's commercial center, hoping to reach all of the city’s homes and shops.
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Ohio estimates just under 9 percent of its population has no access to broadband Internet, and despite throwing dollars at the problem, rural, older and lower-income Americans still face high costs to cross the digital divide.
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The school district’s computer servers in Livingston, N.J., were hacked by an outside entity and infected with “ransomware,” the superintendent said in a statement, resulting in delayed classes on Monday.
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Expanding access to broadband services in rural areas — including large swaths of north central Idaho — should be a top priority for the state’s government, according to Gov. Brad Little’s broadband task force.
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One of seven grant-funded Portsmouth Police Department drones, now available regionally for public safety, can take infrared photos from 200 feet in the air showing the locations of people inside a building below.
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Nearly half of the people released from prison in North Carolina are arrested again within two years of re-entering society — a troubling statistic that the state is trying to chip away at with new technology.
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Peculiar, which is a bedroom community in the Kansas City metro area, has partnered with Comcast for high-speed broadband communications to support a number of city and community operations.
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Although more than 9,800 U.S. agencies are on board with the nationwide public safety communications platform FirstNet, a debate persists about the very issue that FirstNet is designed to solve: interoperability.
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After the successful creation of a new city website built with sophisticated human-centered design methodology, City Hall is now looking to apply the lessons learned to other projects across agencies.
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Each year since 2020, 38-year public employee Bill Mann has focused on an individual theme designed to protect both the public and private sectors, and this year’s features weekly cybersecurity lessons.
