Emerging Tech
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Connecticut state lawmakers are moving to ban facial recognition technology in retail stores throughout the state, citing a CT Insider report on the practice. -
Five students at Dow High School in Midland, Mich., have co-authored research about agriculture in space that will soon appear in a major scientific journal.
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A situation in Twiggs County, Ga., highlights the different approaches local governments in Georgia are taking to manage a surge in data center proposals with little guidance or regulation at the state level.
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The group will focus on combating the spread of fentanyl, helping victims of online child sexual exploitation, defending critical infrastructure and improving supply chains.
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A North Carolina Department of Transportation autonomous shuttle pilot project collects and shares performance data and insights, including the common factors that cause service interruptions.
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Educators and tech CEOs at the annual ASU+GSV Summit this week stressed the need to adapt curricula and teach students to use artificial intelligence without devaluing important skills.
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A draft rule would impose oversight and transparency requirements on insurance companies that use big data about consumers or feed such data into predictive models and algorithms.
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A Colorado entrepreneur is bringing his smart gun to market in what could be the first weapon to break a decades-old political and manufacturing “logjam” that has kept smart guns from mass production.
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OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy as well as a slew of investigations in other EU countries.
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Corey Jaskolski is the founder and CEO of Synthetaic, and he has dubbed his ChatGPT-esque satellite image scanning tool Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC.
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The U.S.-based company offers to help policymakers and business leaders anticipate climate-related outcomes and provide better crop and water management, along with other tasks. ClimateAi has raised $38 million in total.
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Scammers could use artificial intelligence or AI — basically, the simulation of human intelligence by machines, particularly computers — to clone the voice of a loved one.
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A coalition based in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan has taken a big step in its bid to obtain up to $1.25 billion in federal funding for a regional clean hydrogen hub intended to reduce planet-warming emissions.
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SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and will try its luck sending what would be the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today.
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The online learning platform has developed a slew of new AI-powered functions for grading, student feedback and lesson planning, as well as activities that focus on teaching students about machine learning.
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The distributed ledger technology, used in cryptocurrency, could potentially power food permits, social media access and other tasks. But blockchain still has serious political and logistical obstacles to overcome.
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SponsoredMachine learning and process automation help government agencies simplify and accelerate interactions with constituents, which strengthens the public’s trust, says Noel Loughrin, who worked in county government in Southern California for seven years before moving to the private sector. This Q&A explores how.
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Government Technology’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer Dustin Haisler breaks down the present landscape with a comparative look at the latest tools, like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Bing AI chat.
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The company, founded by Navy Seals, markets an AI-powered gun detection platform designed for first responders. Now, via a new subsidiary, ZeroEyes hopes to gain more revenue from federal agencies.
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Legal system reform advocates say new policing technologies such as decision-making algorithms and facial recognition can exacerbate problematic practices, making them more efficient as well as more opaque.
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The promise of the AI future is efficient and abundant content, but AI models have proved time and again that they perpetuate biases, misunderstand cultural context and prioritize being convincing over telling the truth.
