Emerging Tech
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As Hollywood imagines our future, are brain and human microchip implants nearing a “ChatGPT moment” in 2026? Medical progress collides with privacy fears and state bans. -
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.
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Cybersecurity experts say AI and automation are changing how much impact manipulated data can have on government technology systems.
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With the loss of one key radio transmission site, each emergency agency would have access to a single radio frequency for communications.
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The bill requires the roughly two-dozen law enforcement agencies in Florida that already use body cameras to develop procedures for how to use them, maintain them and store recorded data.
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Wireless-connected devices offer financial benefits for local governments, but they come at a price.
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Companies will be able to work with the system and figure out how to make use of warning times.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple is partnering with First Solar to construct the 1,300-acre plant, which he hailed as one of the tech giant's most ambitious projects ever.
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In August, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring all smartphones sold in California after July 1 to contain kill switches, but technology companies already are moving to meet the requirement nationwide.
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A shortage of operable hand-held radios could force the patrol into changing its routine operations, including traffic enforcement, ISP officials told lawmakers Tuesday.
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Socrata showcases its open data suite through the White House's annual budget report.
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As smartphone technology advances, so does anti-theft software, and a growing number of apps are giving users the ability to lock, erase and track phones with GPS.
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While no law will be perfect or address all concerns involving drone use, the quicker solid laws are put into place the easier it will be to tweak those laws to protect privacy.
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Spring City Elementary turned into what officials believe was the first public elementary school in the nation totally rooted in "hybrid learning," mixing computer time with individualized learning and small-group instruction.
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Law professor Ryan Calo discusses how locking down drones for one purpose can set a bad precedent of taking control away from innovators and owners.
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Although a policy has yet to be finalized, Chief Charlie Beck said the department doesn't intend, in general, to release the recordings unless required by a criminal or civil court proceeding.
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The city is awaiting changes to state law, seeking restrictions on who may access the police video recordings and an exception that would free police from having to notify those being recorded ahead of time.
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While the parts printed for humans so far have been fashioned from inorganic materials, researchers in California and elsewhere also have begun printing living tissue.
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Instead of just keeping tabs on your activity level, high-tech sensors embedded throughout your home, your car and maybe even under your skin could keep tabs on your every waking moment.
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As the law sits right now, officers must first tell those they encounter they are being recorded when “reasonably practicable" and the devices cannot be used inside of a residence.
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From interactive wall installations to wireless communication devices for the staff, cutting-edge technology is front and center at the University of California, San Francisco's $1.5 billion medical facility.
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