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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Everyday uses of artificial intelligence that can talk, listen and see are coming. Is government ready?
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Despite Minneapolis already being a dockless-bike friendly town, some worry about excessive theft and abandonment with more fleets on the streets.
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In a nearly $250 million deal, the ride-hailing company acquired Motivate, among other bike-share services, to help place dockless and pedal-assisted e-bikes in major U.S. cities.
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With fuel costs rising and diesel engine mechanics harder to find, many districts have begun looking at vehicles that use alternative fuels.
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SmartColumbus has joined with ODOt's DriveOhio to bring an automated shuttle service downtown this fall.
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The state of New York is looking to regulate what towns will be able to charge for the newest cell transmitters.
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After almost three days of silence, Uber has resumed work with self-driving cars in Pittsburgh.
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Nvidia created several prototypes by retrofitting existing vehicles, and it has a permit from California to take them on test drives. It uses the cars for training its artificial intelligence system.
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To create a fully driverless vehicle, capable of handling all driving situations, Waymo is training its autonomous minivans to operate in the snow.
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NuTonomy's CEO says they are not going to halt their testing like Uber has halted theirs in the midst of accidents.
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The startup is running a series of pilot tests right now to try out a new way of setting up last-mile fiber connections.
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Small cell installations are being placed on city-owned light poles to boost network capacity on the island.
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Advances in automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are setting the stage to radically alter employment opportunities in the coming decades.
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Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has a "rapid transit" plan that would cost $300 million to create — but could politics bring a $1 billion Metrorail extension instead?
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Cities and counties opposing the bill say it would be a financial giveaway to telecom companies at the expense of taxpayers.
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Though some are not happy about the proposal to let telecoms install small antennas in the public right of way, city officials believe the decision will spur more competition and better service to residents.
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A camera system on an undisclosed stretch of Bay Area freeway is on the lookout for drivers ignoring the rules of the multi-passenger lanes.
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U.S. towns and cities, including Philadelphia, are bracing for what one telecom lawyer calls “the attack of the small cells.”
