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A four-person team from the University of Michigan earned a $15,000 prize in the 2025 MiSpace Hackathon, for creating technology that gives four-day forecasts of ice formation on the Great Lakes. -
The government technology supplier says its new AI-backed tool can help states reduce costly mistakes on SNAP applications. Such mistakes could lead to even larger cuts in federal assistance.
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A donation of more than $400,000 enabled the county police department to add two new drones to its fleet of seven. Among residents, however, concerns over being surveilled persist.
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Muscogee County School District in Georgia worked with Columbus Police Department to place cameras in 20 school zones to catch drivers going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
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New laws that will impact Ohio school districts this fall include one requiring them to adopt policies governing cellphone use during the day, and one requiring them not to give tech vendors rights to student records.
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As part of a "Business INCubators" course at Barrington High School in Illinois, students created a website to connect farmers market vendors with new customers and reduce food waste.
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There are two cyber conferences in Las Vegas over the next several days, with those being the Black Hat USA convention and Def Con 32, the longest-running hacking conference in the United States.
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Gov. Ned Lamont and state officials are warning Connecticut consumers about a surge in credit, debit and EBT card theft targeting residents at the gas pump, the ATM and the grocery line.
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Under a mandate from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the city has 10 years to identify and replace any lead pipes that deliver water to customers, with its first benchmark in October.
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The new 2023 Shared Micromobility State of the Industry Report finds slightly more people made use of it in the U.S. last year — even as the number of devices in service fell by more than 3.5 percent.
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A strong quarter gives 2024 the chance to set records for market activity in the government technology space, with a wide variety of dealmaking putting the first half of the year comfortably ahead of last year’s numbers.
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North Carolina high school students will be able to qualify for job interviews with the drone delivery company Zipline as part of a new partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
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Since the Marietta Board of Education in Georgia started requiring students to have their cellphones and smartwatches locked in Yondr pouches during the day, both teachers and students have seen positive changes.
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A pilot at the University of Delaware will use artificial intelligence to convert text transcripts of lectures into practice quizzes, guides, outlines and other interactive study tools.
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As other military branches have broadly struggled to hire, train and retain cybersecurity talent, some say that the solution is adding a U.S. Cyber Force dedicated to digital defense.
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Located in a previously unused wing of a high school, a technical training center in Louisiana offers classrooms and training space for welding, process technology and electrical instrumentation.
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The state’s Flood Inundation Mapping Alert Network website, updated this year, now offers a quicker, more seamless look at data from state and federal agencies. It can now predict in real time when areas will rise to flood stage.
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The department bought six drones this year after voters approved Proposition E, which lets police use surveillance cameras and drones to pursue felony and violent misdemeanor suspects. The drones facilitated three arrests in July.
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The project has, since March, used a machine learning system to set variable speed limits on an area of Interstate 24. The freeway runs through Nashville. The existing system steps in if the tester makes a questionable choice.
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A month before he became Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made the case that a geography geek's love of data and analysis is one of the keys to effective government.
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Lower EV values — combined with higher government incentives — could open the opportunity to a wider demographic of buyers to try EVs as manufacturers work to meet government sales mandates.
