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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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Whether it’s e-scooters or driverless cars, cities face the daunting challenge of balancing innovation with public expectations of safety in the streets. The solution can be found with adaptive regulations.
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Flaws in the recent move to a new email system have caused long delays for Freedom of Information Act requests, potentially opening the city up to litigation. The delays and blame are points of contention for officials.
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The finalists to house the new United States Space Command include one city in Alabama, four in Colorado, and one in California. This command will be part of President Trump’s proposal for a militaristic Space Force.
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation CIO Joe Mandala presented to legislators about the dire need to replace the state's Automated Fingerprint Identification System by 2022 or risk a complete failure.
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Among other things, the companies promised free call blocking services, call authentication technology, monitoring of networks for suspicious call traffic, and cooperating in investigations to trace back illegal calls.
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For the third year, organizers welcomed mayors and their senior staff members to a three-day professional development program in New York City, during which participants examined famous case studies within local government.
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The county must encrypt its data under federal, state and local regulations. Gwinnett’s new contract adds “additional risk mitigation strategies” across the county’s network and systems, according to officials.
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New technologies and services aren't creating irreversible damage, even though they do generate some harms. Preemptive bans would stifle innovation and block potential solutions to real problems.
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The state Court of Appeals ruled that because the plaintiffs suffered no actual financial loss or harm, they are not entitled to recover damages for future injuries. An opposing opinion could have major implications across the state.
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A statewide cybersecurity training bill passed in the spring and was signed into law, requiring most municipal and state government employees to be trained by June 2020. Officials hope it will prevent another attack.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said new license plates are needed to work with cashless tolling systems, red light cameras and the readers used by police. An estimated 3 million vehicles will be affected by the changes.
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In a letter to Lime, dated Aug. 16, city officials accused the company of repeatedly allowing scooters to operate in restricted areas above the speed limit. The company says it’s being treated unfairly.
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Joey Fenley, head of Palo Pinto County’s IT department, told commissioners he plans to block all outside efforts to access the county’s network for cybersecurity reasons, even in the case of a mandated state audit.
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State CIO Shawn Riley assuages legislators' worries by detailing how his department has found 100 of the 217 unaccounted-for devices stated in recent audit findings and his plan to prevent future clerical errors.
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A new bill in the state would require Medicaid to cover telehealth the same as in-person services in terms of both its coverage for patients and its reimbursement for providers who see them.
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The city plans to offer speeds of up to 4 gigabits through its forthcoming HiLight service. Backers of publicly funded Internet say municipal projects are necessary amid the federal rollback of net neutrality protections.
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Some states are shifting resources to fix problems, finding they must hire more personnel and spend more money to comply by the deadline. The Department of Homeland Security says it has no plans to extend the 2020 deadline.
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To tame the onrushing technological tide, society needs dams and dikes. Just as has begun to happen with facial recognition, it’s time to consider legal bans and moratoriums on other emerging technologies.
