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Transit buses in the Silicon Valley city are traveling 20 percent faster following a technology upgrade that gave them traffic signal priority at certain intersections. The project, an official said, is scalable. -
Speaking to the challenges of ed-tech procurement, Lisa Berghoff of Highland Park High School said school districts should overlook hype and focus instead on whether a new tool is accessible and backed by sound research.
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As one of its first operational AI projects, Mississippi’s Innovation Hub is piloting Procurii, a chatbot designed to address knowledge gaps. The proof of concept is intended to augment tech procurement processes.
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The state of Illinois will offer credit monitoring and a call center for hundreds of thousands of people whose private data was compromised in a cyber attack by a global ransomware group last month.
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Most Vermont state websites and some online services went down for 11 hours this week after a cable serving a third-party data center was cut. A similar incident happened in April.
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The city is looking to implement a system that would allow callers to select the type of emergency they are reporting. Callers currently spend an average of one minute on hold when calling 911.
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Plus, one Florida city is launching a new digital navigators program; Nebraska names a new state broadband director; a Texas city is launching a digital inclusion art contest for students; and more.
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A new report ranks states for their transition to electric vehicles. California leads the list, followed by New York, largely because of the Empire State’s robust plans to transition all of its school buses to zero-emission vehicles.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed Senate Bill 101 omnibus, formalizing the approval of the $310.8 billion state budget. The legislation outlines hundreds of millions for broadband expansion and IT efforts in the state.
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A community college in Tennessee limited the scope of a data breach in May by promptly taking its computer systems offline. Most of the vicitms had taken the GED test at the college's testing center in 2012 and 2013.
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Chief privacy officer roles exist in 21 states and counting. As the job gains traction in government, we look at where those IT leaders sit, how they collaborate with their peers and where the field is going.
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An annual list of the top 40 most-accessed ed-tech tools for K-12 schools in the United States, now in its sixth year, put GoGuardian, Securly and Study.com alongside the likes of Google, Scholastic and YouTube.
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A coalition of electric vehicle charging companies is pushing back against a utility provider’s plan to build a public charging network over the next three years while offering other rebates and programs.
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The federal government has announced that Washington state will get more than $1.2 billion to expand Internet access. But how big of an impact will the money actually make for residents?
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A June 26 panel at the ISTELive 23 conference in Philadelphia said schools should have, and practice, a plan for what to do immediately after a cyber attack, who to contact and what the next remediation steps are.
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To compensate for budget cuts, a Minnesota school district is weighing the possibility of asking taxpayers to approve an additional source of funding that would be used to support technology.
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An unauthorized intruder gained access to a San Diego school district's network in February, taking files that contained the personal information of an unknown number of people.
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Opposition from state Rep. Steven Smith of Charlestown proved the key factor in the demise of a bill intended to make it easier for people to vote and more efficient for election workers to tally that vote.
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Federal regulators want patients to see a health-care provider in person before receiving prescriptions for potentially addictive medicines through telehealth — something that wasn’t required during the pandemic.
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An official with the Niagara County Board of Elections attributed delays in the online posting of primary results to a hiccup involving technology designed to protect the integrity of the county's election system.
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The city has signed a 10-year, $39 million contract with Axon Enterprises for the latest models of body cameras, in-vehicle cameras and Tasers as they become available.
