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State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Executive Director Julia Fallon says Congress may need to identify legislative means outside of E-rate to solve the home connectivity issue for students. -
Amid an overall growth projection for the market of more than $160 billion, government IT leaders at the Beyond the Beltway conference confront a tough budget picture, with some seeing AI as part of the solution.
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Plus, New Mexico is increasing access to affordable Internet, federal legislation has advanced in Congress to better track funding, Indiana residents have expanded access to fiber broadband, and more.
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Florida schools are grappling with significant disparities in the availability, quality and delivery of computer-science programming, but it should be a top priority given the state's burgeoning tech industry.
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Are new human rights the answer? While neurotechnologies do raise significant privacy concerns, it could be argued that the risks are similar to those for more familiar data-collection technologies.
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A cybersecurity breach in July may have exposed the names, Social Security numbers, student ID numbers or other education records or more than a decade's worth of college and high school students in Colorado.
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The two-week summer program was designed to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate on medical device prototype creation with the guidance of established innovators in the mechanical engineering industry.
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CAPTCHAs have been around for decades, but new AI advances are changing the methods required to prove you are a real person. So where next with human verification — and user frustrations?
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There are many definitions of artificial intelligence, and it’s been embedded in software for years, but recent advances carry new potential to personalize education, tutor students and automate aspects of school operation.
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The seller of public safety technology has a new app designed to give police, firefighters and medical workers more access to real-time data in the field. Kansas is the first big customer of this new product.
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On the record: State technology leaders share their pitches to get fresh faces into state and local government IT shops.
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The cyber attack against Waterbury Health and ECHN health systems was reported on Thursday, but the extent of the incident and details about how it was detected remained unclear as of Friday.
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Despite legislation and other forces pumping the brakes on autonomous vehicles on public thoroughfares, self-driving shuttle May Mobility officials are optimistic about the technology’s future.
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The city issued a formal notice for the first time about potential data being exposed since detecting the ransomware attack by hacking group Royal. Officials say the data of “certain individuals” was accessed by the group.
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DeKalb County School District in Georgia has installed an AI weapons detection system called Evolv Express at entrances to schools and given all staff alert badges that will allow them to trigger lockdowns.
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Backers think geothermal could power as much as 20% of the U.S. grid. A handful of states approved laws this year and others are considering measures that would provide money and regulations to help the industry.
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Robotic process automation is increasingly popular as a way to speed up government work. But this isn't always the answer — and at times, it may cause an agency unforeseen headaches down the road.
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A public university in Louisiana says a cyber attack in February did not compromise personal identifiable information, although a cybersecurity firm found 150 gigabytes of the university's data on the dark web in April.
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Since discovering a cyber attack on its network last month, a public university in Kentucky removed updates on the matter from its website but said it's keeping its network closed and working with vendors.
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The work group, which consists of 12 members from different stakeholder groups, is tasked with preparing a report by Dec. 1 that will inform the county's regulation of the critical digital infrastructure industry.
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Scientists with the NOAA and NASA showed off a NASA DC-8 airplane parked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that is said to be the world's largest flying chemistry laboratory.
