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The City Council approved giving OnLight Aurora, set up to manage the city’s fiber network, $80,000 via either a loan or grant. A key issue, an alderman said, is getting the organization back on track. -
A contract with Motorola Solutions will enable the county to do a better job of safeguarding its emergency radio communications system. Tower sites and radio dispatch consoles will get 24/7 security.
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Public agencies use software from Libera for vocational rehabilitation. CiviCore, once part of Neon One, has government clients that include courts, schools and health and human services departments.
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A new one-acre solar farm at the university's Research and Technology Park, supported by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is designed to reduce fossil fuel consumption and minimize risk from storms.
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While many educators and parents have supported and attested to the efficacy of keeping smartphones out of schools, some educational organizations are warning Maine lawmakers not to overreach.
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A bill heading to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk will require school districts to draft their own policies enacting a total cellphone ban for students during the school day, starting in the fall.
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A webinar this week featuring panelists from the education, private and nonprofit sectors attested to how institutions are applying generative artificial intelligence to advising, admissions, research and IT.
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Modernizing the state system will require more than just new technology. The undertaking will include a careful “change management” process to receive input and feedback from Hawaii staffers.
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Officials have agreed to spend nearly $1 million on electronic voter check-in systems that will enable virtual sign-language services for deaf voters. Each polling place will have at least two tablets with the software.
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The venture between a battery startup and a data center builder will use a type of energy storage that would be a first for a U.S. data center. It would use what is known as an organic flow battery, which doesn’t require lithium.
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A crash April 4 involving a driverless Zoox taxi and an electric bicycle didn’t result in any injuries. Data suggests autonomous vehicle companies are still learning as they gain experience, but experts expressed confidence in the technology.
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The online tool makes information available on every neighborhood in the Pennsylvania city. Years in the making, it includes data dating to Jan. 1, 2024, with near real-time updates, and may add older details.
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As data management becomes an increasingly important priority for state governments and the people they serve, experts examine what authority the federal government has to access private state information.
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In defense of the moratorium, Republican lawmakers argued that regulations across 50 states pose too great a challenge for federal rules around artificial intelligence to be effectively developed.
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In a recent webinar organized by the National Math and Science Initiative, educators discussed building STEM programs, persistent gaps in enrollment between different demographics, and how to generate student interest.
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A San Francisco company whose General Coding Assessment is widely used by major technology companies ranked Carnegie Mellon No. 1 this year and last year, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was No. 2.
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District leaders say the pandemic-era practice of giving a Chromebook to each of the district's 160,000 students is too expensive to sustain, and they need to reallocate money being spent on them for HVAC upgrades.
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Rodgers, a longtime officer in the U.S. Navy, has considerable technology experience in the private sector, including as a federal and public security architect at IBM. He is the former deputy mayor for Boca Raton, Fla.
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The university launched a new center this month aimed at collecting data and developing intentional, research-supported educational tools based on how students and educators are using AI in classrooms.
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Administrative support for the Office of Data Governance and Analytics has moved to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, in an effort to improve efficiency and further enable teamwork.
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The district attorney’s office in Fort Bend County is investigating the Feb. 24 breach of the county’s library system, which led to $2.6 million in contracts with cybersecurity companies. Some library systems are still down.
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