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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 seamless transition from a scooter to a bus — covered by a single payment — is part of what the future in multimodal transportation should look like, transportation leaders and experts argue.
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Almost two dozen City Council members sent a letter last week demanding to know why the Education Department failed to meet legal deadlines for providing city school bus GPS tracking information to parents.
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Portland delayed taking action Monday on a proposal to prohibit city employees from using facial recognition technology. Proponents of the ban say the technology often misidentifies women, people of color and children.
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Submitting an anonymous crime tip or looking up the whereabouts of local sex offenders just got a whole lot easier with the recent introduction of a cellphone app by the Portage police department.
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Users build an electronic vault for online records held by financial institutions, government agencies, insurance firms and even social media and email services. The info remains locked until the individual passes away.
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More than half of 11-year-olds now own their own smartphone, according to a recent national survey of more than 1,600 children between the ages of 8 and 18 years old. And the trend is on the rise.
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New technologies, including electronic warrants and remote first court appearances during holidays and weekends, have eliminated a sizable chunk of paperwork for the judges in St. Johns County, Fla.
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The film, which is titled Code & Response, is part of a larger effort by IBM to help foster and support projects aimed at helping communities prepare for and recover from a global spike in natural disasters.
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An online survey conducted by Ames, Iowa, found that 70 percent of participants graded their Internet service as "fair" or "poor," with comments detailing wide-scale dissatisfaction with lack of speed and unreliability.
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New technologies such as electronic warrants and remote first court appearances for holidays and weekends have eliminated a sizable chunk of paperwork for the judges in St. Johns County, Fla.
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Telecommunications and technology company Nex-Tech is in the midst of a major upgrade to its infrastructure in Great Bend, a project that has garnered a lot of interest and curiosity from consumers.
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Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative has a $2.5 million fiber project grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative.
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The proliferation of facial recognition technology is raising concerns among civil rights advocates and others who fear the technology will be used to conduct mass surveillance of innocent civilians.
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A second, large school system in Butler County, Ohio, now has plans to offer thousands of laptops to high school students over the course of the next school year, facilitating increased access to tech in the region.
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Ten days after Election Day, Spokane County staff are still painstakingly counting and re-creating by hand thousands of ballots that had stray pen marks, changes of mind, and other irregularities and damage.
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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.
