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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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Airports have become testing sites for new technologies amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. In some places, temperature scanning technology is increasingly being used to monitor and slow the spread of the virus in real time. -
The missing money, redirected to a third party from a non-general fund account, was initially discovered by town officials. State and federal authorities have been called to investigate the incident.
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Sixty-seven public and private projects funded by nearly $50 million in federal coronavirus relief grants could soon connect more than 70,000 households that have struggled with reliable Internet service for years.
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A research report by the University of Texas, Austin, identifies more than 127,000 acres of right-of-way areas at interstate exits around the country as suitable sites for locating solar power generating sites.
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The lawsuit alleges that the police department illegally accessed real-time surveillance footage from private cameras to monitor demonstrators following the Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Dissatisfaction with the Internet options in Ames is an issue the City Council has confronted in recent years. With a new provider in town, some believe the new competition could be the solution.
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The digital divide grew during the pandemic after schools suddenly closed and households could not easily shift online. Experts say this widens achievement gaps between low-income schools and affluent counterparts.
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Wisconsin regulators have awarded $5.3 million in federal pandemic relief money to fund expansion of high-speed Internet service in a dozen counties — provided those projects are completed this year.
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Plus, Boulder, Colo., launches a beta website to gather user feedback; and a new Gallup/Knight survey finds that four out of five Americans worry disinformation will sway the presidential election.
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New Mexico lags behind peer states with regard to its broadband access, in part because of its large swaths of rural and tribal areas, according to a report by the Department of Information Technology earlier this year.
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As more students return to school in person, some school districts are having to trim back programs that deployed buses as hot spots in neighborhoods for students with little or no internet access.
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Firefighters moved into the new structures in Bay County, Fla., during the summer, with officials saying the low-cost, innovative and portable facilities so far have proven to be good investments.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wednesday announced the agency is investing $781,127 to provide telemedicine software and equipment to bolster health-care access in central Kansas.
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Republican lawmakers representing counties in upstate New York expressed concern on Wednesday about a new fee that they say could threaten the expansion of broadband in underserved rural communities.
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Each of the 21 school sites in Newton County, Mo., will receive a mobile telemedicine cart that will allow a patient to be seen in real time by a medical provider, all without having to leave the school nurse’s office.
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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.
