Emerging Tech
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The Kansas City Council is beginning to rethink the city’s approach to future data center construction while striving to learn more about the booming industry’s impact locally. -
Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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Director of the OSU Unmanned Systems Research Institute Jamey Jacob said research began in 2015 to see whether it was possible for a single pilot to fly as many as 20 unmanned fixed-wing aircraft.
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After a visit to the border between the United States and Mexico, a Montana congressman said that in order to enhance security, more technology for surveillance and vehicle drug screening is needed.
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Increasingly, state and local government needs to deliver services with both speed and quality. The best way to do that is with a new IT collaborative practice known as “DevOps.”
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A proposal to outfit the Atlantic Plaza Towers apartments with a facial recognition entry system has tenants pushing back and asking the state’s Homes and Community Renewal agency to grant more time to formally oppose the technology.
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From its original roots as an electric vehicle showroom, the Smart Columbus Experience Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, is exploring new opportunities to share a wider range of smart city technologies.
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The group, formally called the Election Law Advisory Board, would be tasked with mapping out election reform measures and emerging technologies to identify "best practices to ensure voting integrity."
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Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
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Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. Today, almost everyone has one. Will quantum computing follow the same path?
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One San Diego psychologist believes the search engine’s built-in bias could have cost Republicans three California congressional districts in the last election. Google dismisses that claim, citing flawed research methodology.
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Plus, Michigan to host its first state procurement summit; Boston launches new birth certificate app; and 18F reflects on its first five years of existence in a new blog.
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Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show that U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to use facial recognition at 20 major international airports on 16,300 flights per week by 2021.
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People – individually and in groups – were not as good at facial recognition as an algorithm. But five people plus the algorithm, working together, were even better.
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Live chat, chatbots and artificial intelligence have changed for the better how companies interact and help customers in the private sector. Now, it’s time for government to do the same with the latest in CX technology.
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Fort Collins, Colo., is experimenting with smart city technology on five of its street sweepers, which send back data related to travel routes, low-hanging limbs or poorly parked cars.
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Rapid advances in AI have sparked growing concern about the ethics of allowing algorithms to make decisions, its effects on the workforce and the dangers of those decisions could include human bias.
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When it comes to innovation, Santa Clara County is way ahead of the rest of the US. Between 2000 and 2015, more than 140,000 patents were granted there – triple the number of the next-ranked county.
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Law enforcement in the communities of Middletown and West Chester, Ohio, are asking residents to register their security cameras so officers can quickly request footage in the event of a crime.
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In response to state Rep. Aaron Kaufer’s calls for a statewide high-speed train system, the turnpike commission has approved a $2 million contract with Los Angeles-based engineering and construction firm AECOM to undertake the study.
