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SponsoredState and local governments are accelerating technology modernization, and embracing cloud as a vital part of those efforts. In this Q&A, Celeste O’Dea, Oracle senior managing director of strategic programs for government and education, and William Sanders, Oracle director of strategic programs for government and education, discuss the ways in which a cloud platform can provide a solid foundation for enterprise adoption. -
SponsoredThe passwordless future provides us a new hope to secure our systems.
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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NSF-supported organization coordinates US participation in global data-sharing and infrastructure-building effort.
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Unlike the suburbs of U.S. cities, which are often well off, the suburbs of many European cities tend to be the poorest parts of the metropolitan area. Via NPR.org
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By the mid-2020s, there’s a very real chance that “driving a car” will mean something much different than it does today.
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One of the biggest barriers to making cities “smarter” is quick and easy access to data.
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The waste-to-energy technology will cleanly convert up to 64 tons per day of blended waste wood, scrap tires and sewer sludge into a fuel gas that will generate up to 300 kilowatts of electricity.
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Wastewater streams in, gets cleaned up through a variety of nanoscopic membranes, aerators and filtration systems, and it comes out clear as day.
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Driving will change in the next two decades and when it does a significant portion of the 50 minutes an average commuter spends in traffic each day could be used to work, relax and be entertained.
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In the coming decades, fossil fuel depletion and the need to respond to climate change will ensure that fossil fuel use will fall. It's time to adapt.
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Regulating comfort in small commercial buildings could become more efficient and less expensive thanks to an innovative low-cost wireless sensor technology being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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The program aims to improve the performance of clean energy business incubators, connect critical industry and energy sector partners, and advance clean energy technologies.
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Architects and planners have an opportunity to address problems by learning from both global best practice and the needs and experiences of local people. Combining these things will result in more realistic solutions.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack insists the key to growth is moving beyond traditional ethanol and a 10-year-old government renewable fuel mandate to embrace exports and airlines' demand for cleaner-burning alternatives.
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The city owns a mothballed plant — built more than 20 years ago during another severe drought — that can turn seawater into drinking water. But it was never used beyond a tryout phase before steady rain began falling again.
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Fuel diversity provides what most Americans take for granted in their electricity: reliability, security and price stability.
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Everyone agrees America's infrastructure needs attention. But no one seems to be able agree on how to provide that attention.
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An Oregon Senate committee has proposed an unusual tax break, designed to help lure Google Fiber or other hyperfast Internet services to the Portland area.
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The state is well on its way to placing electronic tolls on highways to pay for new express lanes and other improvements intended to reduce congestion.
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Two bills that North Texas lawmakers hope will one day wean the state off its reliance on toll roads aim to remove bureaucracy between voters and transportation decision-makers.
