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County commissioners will consider expanding the sheriff’s office's use of Flock Safety technology by adding drones through a nine-month pilot program that is free to the jurisdiction. -
Bangor may fast-track an ordinance to pause data center builds for six months as the Maine state Legislature considers a longer freeze that would ban large centers for a year and a half.
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City councilors were caught off guard in Lewiston after receiving a proposal for a $300 million center inside the downtown Bates Mill only about a month before a meeting when they needed to vote on it.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a one-month ban on unmanned aerial vehicles flying over parts of about two dozen towns and cities in New Jersey.
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The FBI says more than 5,000 drone sightings that the bureau investigated in New Jersey ended up being small planes, hobbyist drones, helicopters, stars or law enforcement aircraft.
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A government investigation has kicked off in New Jersey after recent reports of what news outlets are calling “mysterious” drone sightings in multiple states.
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The Nevada Highway Patrol will begin using a thermal imaging van that officials hope will help the agency focus on the most problematic trucks and perhaps even combat human trafficking.
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A panel of authorities on the data center industry told Northwest energy planners Wednesday that the tech sector will take all the electricity it can get its hands on, warning of severe consequences.
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Mayor Ben Walsh’s administration wants to expand the use of body-worn cameras to its code enforcement staff, but city lawmakers want questions answered before they’ll go along with buying the equipment.
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Autonomous robots delivering Uber Eats orders are hitting downtown Dallas sidewalks this month, and city officials say they have limited options for ensuring the self-driving machines are good operators.
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Plus, OpenAI hits its 1 millionth paying user, a new app analyzes speech energy patterns to predict hypertension, and Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023.
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Humanoid robots could offer valuable support before human first responders arrive on the site of an emergency. The Italian Institute of Technology has a prototype in the works.
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The award, part of the federal CHIPS Act, will aid a company in business since 1986. Powerex may be one of the last such vertically integrated entities in the U.S., creating silicon chips for power systems in MRI machines and elsewhere.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded Intel more than $7.8 billion under the CHIPS incentives initiatives for commercial fabrication facilities. The company has said it needs the money to build semiconductor fabrications plants in the Columbus, Ohio, area.
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At a headquarters in Kent, Wash., engineers are assembling giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the spacecraft reusable.
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A final deal with GlobalFoundries will expand a chipmaking plant in Saratoga County, N.Y., and update a smaller plant in Vermont. It’s the second final deal this week from the CHIPS and Science Act, which is providing $39 billion to chipmakers for U.S. production.
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A Government Technology data analysis of the Chula Vista, Calif., police department’s six-year groundbreaking drone-as-first-responder program reveals impacts on response times, officer safety and citizen privacy.
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Francesca Ioffreda has a long list of job experiences that include consulting and economic development. She will lead a team funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies — an effort her new employer expects other states to imitate.
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Under a road map that was unveiled Tuesday, the U.S. would deploy an additional 200 gigawatts of nuclear energy capacity by mid-century through the construction of new reactors and other steps.
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Residents will have the option beginning in mid-2025 to make payments with the digital currency through a secure platform managed by PayPal, a move officials hope will help attract tech startups to the city.
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Tech giants are bracing for changes, including a revamp of the government’s approach to artificial intelligence, an influential role for Elon Musk and other changes from the status quo under Biden.
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