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New Mexico schools are part of a nationwide push to curb phone use in classrooms, driven by teacher concerns about disruption and growing worries about record daily screen time. -
Mississippi has announced a new AI data center build that promises tax revenue and job creation. Such gains are not always easy to quantify, but policymakers can push developers to deliver.
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Attorney General Dana Nessel is challenging state energy regulators' approval of special electricity contracts between DTE Energy Co. and the developers of a high-profile data center in Saline Township.
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A $362,087 federal grant from the United States Department of Agriculture will be used to implement telehealth and remote patient technology throughout a six-county health coverage area in rural Tennessee.
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Speaking at a recent business summit, the Missouri House speaker said it made sense to build a tube capable of sending people across the state in a half hour, assuming the technology works as promised.
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As lawmakers in Oklahoma consider regulating drones at the state level when they return to session next month, the proposed legislation in question is based on North Carolina’s own regulation of drones.
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All California state departments are being mandated to record every sexual harassment and discrimination claim in a new centralized system. Until now, the state did not have a tool that could track sexual harassment allegations.
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A consultant was hired by county officials last August on the heels of an April 2019 ransomware attack that triggered a series of vast system outages. That plan is expected during the first quarter.
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The Center of Ethics, Society and Computing has been unveiled by the University of Michigan, with a mission to intervene when digital media and tech replicate inequality, exclusion, deception, racism or sexism.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has given a small company in New York the green light to begin spraying crops with drones, and the company plans to begin offering a crop-spraying service in that state this spring.
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Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has called for government regulations on artificial intelligence, doing so with an opinion piece in the Financial Times that has left some experts in the space with questions.
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The so-called "Stop Social Media Censorship Act" would make companies liable for damages in civil lawsuits if they delete or censure religious speech or political speech, or use an algorithm to "disfavor or censure" such speech.
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Google is going to try to market itself as a privacy-first service, after announcing its drastic change in how it handles third-party cookies in its Chrome browser last week. Other web browsers have long embraced privacy.
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According to officials, the state is risking disruptions to operations with its legacy human resources system. Gov. Gina Raimondo has asked legislators to approve the funding to modernize the necessary systems.
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As states look to legal frameworks to deter the rising tide of cyberattacks against state and local governments, Maryland is seeking to criminalize the possession of the tools that make them possible.
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Cyberattacks, Internet shutdowns, online bullying, and other types of behavior threaten the rights of citizens. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web, offers a contract to regulate Internet norms.
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Federal cybersecurity pros will meet in central New York with state and local election officials to discuss the threat of cyberattacks on the 2020 elections and defensive measures to protect the integrity of elections.
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With each state using different election laws under the hyper-localized American system, the election security landscape remains complicated in the first general-election year since the Russian meddling efforts.
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The legislation is aimed at preventing insurance companies from using customers’ genetic information to change, deny or cancel policies. If passed, the state would be the first to have legislation of this kind.
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The new presidential primary system, run and paid for by the state, is expected to be logistically smoother. The new system also records party preference and provides that data to the chairs of each major political party.
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The proposal under consideration in Douglas County would remove the one-time 20% jump for cryptominers but keeps the 10% hikes for the next five years. A similar rate structure would apply to data centers.
