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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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The city council approved the Smart City initiative and a corresponding $30,000 membership to U.S. Ignite, a nonprofit that will work with the community to build those technology strategies.
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The turnover of senior-level employees at Vallejo, Calif., City Hall continued Monday as longtime Information & Technology Director Greg Taylor accepted a similar position with the city of Concord, Calif.
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This will be the first time the general public will be able to take free rides on two self-driving shuttles that have been running on a 1.5-mile test track in the Atlanta suburb, Peachtree Corners.
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A one-day conference this Friday could help local businesses, professionals and others learn how to harness blockchain, an emerging technology that’s busting up old, less secure ways of sharing information online.
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Officials have estimated a $97.5 million cost for a citywide fiber-optic network for 44,000 residential homes and businesses, creating capability of offering symmetrical upload and download speeds of 1 gigabit.
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A recently released report states that information was lost after only being saved on local servers. The lack of available data hampered the ongoing recovery efforts and raised questions about protocols.
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The city has about 140 vehicles in its fleet, and officials are determining how many should be outfitted with the new technology. Officials are checking if they must solicit bids or proposals for the technology.
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The previous computer system used by the Oklahoma County, Okla., Sheriff’s office has been in service since 1997 and is no longer being developed or sold by the vendor. The new system will be in place within a year.
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When city staff click the link in a fake phishing email, it triggers a training video about the dangers of a real phishing attack. The move is in response to a recent ransomware attack against the public school system.
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The man has created an app called JDOE, which enables victims of sexual assault to report abusers anonymously and be connected with a law firm that could potentially represent them in a lawsuit.
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Time is important after the Guilford County Board of Elections has twice postponed deciding which voting system to deploy in replacing equipment no longer certified for use in North Carolina after Dec. 1.
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Traffic congestion across U.S. metros continues to rise, according to the Urban Mobility Report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. But solving the problem will mean thinking beyond infrastructure.
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One in 10 direct recording electronic voting machines will have a small black box attached that will let voters see a printout of ballots, providing a paper trail that can be used in post-election audits.
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The outage late Thursday morning was caused by a storage issue in the county system. County IT officials said there was no external cause for the incident that crashed computers and websites.
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Three years ago, Washington Broadband purchased 40 miles of an old TV cable system running in the region, and has converted it to a two-way, fiber-fed Internet system one community at a time.
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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.
