Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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Experts fear the Internet of Things can be conscripted into a virtual army by hackers if companies continue to create products with weak or no security protections.
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The company behind New York’s celebrated transformation of old pay phones into high-tech digital way stations has negotiated a 15-year deal with Miami-Dade officials to install up to 300 of the kiosks at bus stops and Metrorail stations across the county.
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The city has issued a request for information that seeks help in creating better, more efficient services utilizing technology.
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Over the past few years, members of the National Trust’s Preservation Green Lab team have developed a concept they call a community’s “Character Score.”
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Uber's principle that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission may not work in its war on drivers, according to technology and transportation analysts, who say regulators may prove less willing to cave now that the company is pushing technology that the public doesn’t yet trust.
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Elaine Chao, Trump’s nominee for transportation secretary, will wield great power over how driverless cars and other automated vehicles will be regulated — or not.
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Henrik Christensen, who was hired in July to run UC San Diego’s young Contextual Robotics Institute, talks about the effect autonomous cars may have on our society.
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The rules, passed unanimously by the California Energy Commission after years in the making, will cover desktops and laptops as well as monitors, workstations and small servers.
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Bringing together members from local, state and federal government, Sacramento announced its is open for business for autonomous vehicles.
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A judge has ordered the city of Chicago to hold off on implementing new restrictions on Airbnb and other home-sharing platforms after a group of homeowners sued the city last month.
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Uber argued that its technology was exempt from the DMV's permit requirements -- but the DMV disagreed.
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Our new world of robots, artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, is creating new jobs and requiring the current workforce to adjust its roles and acquire new skills to make a living in a science-fictional universe.
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Google will reportedly deploy a semi-autonomous version of the Chrysler Pacifica minivan as early as the end of 2017.
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The next time you summon an Uber, it could be a self-driving car.
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It's been two years since the city's exit from bankruptcy and the street lighting is becoming a shining example of the city's rebound.
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The company, from the “moonshots” unit, falls under the Alphabet umbrella.
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In citing the enormous potential for saving human lives, the U.S. Department of Transportation is opening up the floor to public comment on a rule mandating new vehicles be outfitted with vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology.
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For Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Leslie S. Richards, allowing testing of self-driving vehicles is “the prudent thing to do.”
