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With the popularity of electric bicycles and scooters on the rise, here’s what state and local laws say about their use in Fort Worth, Colleyville, Texas Christian University and elsewhere. -
As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, especially in communities where data centers pop up.
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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.
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While .gov domains are widely used for official government websites at the state and federal levels, local governments often use .org, .net or .com domains, making them easy for hackers to impersonate.
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Many sites offer the ability to 'opt out' of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn't easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs would help improve privacy on the web.
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City officials are trying to establish where scooters might fit on city streets and sidewalks. While some are concerned with safety, others questioned whether the devices were a good alternative to car traffic.
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According to David Ostrowe, the secretary of digital transformation and administration, some 4,000 people are already using a beta version of the smartphone-based identification. That number is set to grow this week.
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The move by Beaumont Independent School District is part of an effort to combat bullying, violence and suicide. The artificial intelligence-based tool will scan school-issued accounts for warning signs.
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Rather than paying to make documents machine-readable in line with the 2017 Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, state agencies are opting to pull them offline. The decision has some concerned about transparency.
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Gov. Greg Abbott signed two bills into law in June to increase transparency in the state by closing public records loopholes and extending authority over official communication on state employees' personal devices.
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The company is going to bring automated license plate recognition to its in-car dash cameras. But first, its independent oversight board issued recommendations for the technology to address ethical concerns.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has unveiled guidance to its "Increasing Recreational Opportunities Through the Use of Electric Bikes" order, allowing use of e-bikes at wildlife refuges and other public lands.
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The state task force focused on the feasibility of linking St. Louis and Kansas City with a hyperloop system recommended building a 15-mile test track that is expected to cost between $300 million and $500 million.
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As a new year approaches, myriad states are looking to adopt their own, distinct privacy laws — a fact that leaves many in the business and technology industries anxious about the road ahead.
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After a research study sounded the alarm, the New York State Department of Financial Services has called on Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group to prove its algorithms are not racially biased or discontinue their use.
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A newly enacted state law threatens to take revenue out of city coffers by cutting the fees paid by telecommunications companies using city-owned land for their infrastructure. The move has been called corporate welfare.
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Most of the outages were in Southern California, with a dozen cell sites down in Orange County and two dozen in San Diego. None were reported out in Los Angeles County, where the Tick Fire is burning.
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Loopholes in the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) offer officials broad discretion over when to keep or delete the recorded history of public business — documents and correspondence included — a new report finds.
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During remarks at a cybersecurity summit at Salve Regina University's Pell Center, Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gobea said computer-based attacks highlight the need for physical voter records and ballots.
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Westmoreland County, Pa., commissioners are defending their selection of new voting machines amid criticism that the system is both less secure and more costly than other options on the market.
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A report by the International Council on Clean Transportation looked at the growth of the electric vehicle market across the U.S. It found that adoption is strongest in urban centers and along the east and west coasts.
