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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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Panama City Beach, Fla., Police Chief Drew Whitman has said that he wants to use all of the latest technology to catch criminals, but not if that comes at the cost of residents' constitutional rights.
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The suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court by DBI Networks LLC, doing business as ClearFiber, accused the city of denying access to public rights-of-way by refusing to issue a license agreement.
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The Murrysville Planning Commission heard a presentation recently from the company Crown Castle, which is looking to place 5G antennas in the municipality to create a framework for 5G tech across the state and nation.
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License plate readers capture plates that pass in front of them, using machine learning to turn photos into a line of code stored in a searchable database. Typically, they are used to enforce tolls and parking.
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Plus, Los Angeles hosts a Shark Tank-style pitch contest for startups with a $25,000 prize, and IBM partners with United Nations Human Rights for a coding challenge aimed at mitigating the impact of global disasters.
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The company has done similar mapping and data collection in Toronto and San Francisco. After mapping city streets, company officials said Uber may launch self-driving cars in parts of the city.
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The opening of the shuttle, if proven successful, could be crucial toward reaching goals of the region. Central Florida was deemed an autonomous vehicle proving ground by the U.S Department of Transportation.
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The head of an aerial surveillance company is pitching Baltimore officials on flying not one but three camera-laden planes above the city simultaneously, covering most of the city and its violent crime.
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Although the cost of a new parking enforcement system is higher than the existing services, city officials say it will be more efficient and will save a considerable amount of staff time.
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The city's cruisers are now equipped with the MACH system, which stands for Mobile Architecture for Communications Handling. The software lets police departments cooperate with each other during emergency situations.
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North Carolina State University has been named as the site of a new next-gen communications research center, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The center will focus on drone and autonomous vehicle work.
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The first publicly available platform of its kind in the U.S., it's aimed at offering small and mid-sized businesses cyberthreat tracking capabilities and trend analysis that otherwise wouldn't be accessible.
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The city planned to use the new poll books this November to reduce human error and facilitate faster voting processes, but city officials say that there were several problems with the books during a recent test election
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Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened for a recent school board election, and those computers hold statewide voter data.
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Lincoln Public Schools staffers traverse the Internet, consider opportunities and dangers, then do their best to harness the former for students when they’re inside school walls and make sure the latter are off-limits.
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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.
