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A police official said that Flock Safety is providing one drone on loan for the town police force to try out, and they intend to start using it to get aerial coverage of Lewiston’s summer events. -
Several signs suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the facilities that house thousands of servers for AI and other tech programs.
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The newly proposed Senate budget would ditch the state sales tax exemption for data centers, adding more than $1 billion in tax revenue that could fund tax cuts and critical spending priorities.
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At a time when lots of Pennsylvania communities are writing data center regulations into their zoning ordinances, one Cumberland County township just pressed pause.
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President Trump's policy in his second term has blazed a new American trail in space — and spawned an urgent race with China that is fast approaching the finish line.
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Over the past few years, there has been case after case of school-age children using deepfake technologies to prank or bully their classmates. And it keeps getting easier to do.
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Huntsville may play a pivotal role in the transition to commercial space stations once the aging International Space Station is decommissioned in 2030 due to cost concerns, according to some industry experts.
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The project, which includes eight weeks of curriculum, allows children to learn skills interactively through a combination of collaborative digital games, read-alouds and hands-on activities.
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Mayor Cara Spencer on Thursday announced new rules for building data centers in the city, but stopped short of a yearlong moratorium officials weighed last week.
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The state has bolstered its effort to attract quantum researchers and companies by opening a Microsoft-backed research center with the University of Maryland. Backers of the tech said it could be more disruptive than AI.
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Government Technology got an inside look at one Minnesota police department's drone program to see how a deadly manhunt exposed limits of its current drone tech and why they're now aspiring for a DFR model.
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The federal agency wants to encourage more use of air taxis and drones, including for emergency services. The FAA is seeking proposals from state and local governments — ideas that could eventually scale.
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Unswayed by neighborhood opposition, Statesville City Council unanimously approved a developer’s planned data center on 330 acres of land previously used for farming in western Iredell County.
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Officials have deployed urban service robots to inspect sidewalk accessibility, in order to take an informed approach to improvements; the project is part of the city’s Americans with Disabilities Act self-evaluation.
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The white, bullet-shaped, sub-5-foot, 420-pound robot is like a neighborhood beat cop as it glides its way through the Crossroads district on four wheels, gathering data from its cameras and greeting passersby.
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Before last week, no one had ever reached the bottom of Lake Tahoe, despite the attempts of past engineers and researchers, but a new remotely operated vehicle has now changed that.
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The East Bay Municipal Utility District’s newest $325 million addition to the Orinda Water Treatment Plant centers around a high-tech plan to use ultraviolet light as a primary decontamination strategy.
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For utility companies in the Pittsburgh area, chasing data centers as customers might offer vast rewards, but those rewards also come with some clear risks.
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The mission of the Maryland Data Centers Analysis Group, as described by an organizer, is to “elevate verifiable data” about the critical digital infrastructure industry and its potential implications for the state.
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The state will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the Quantum Frontier Project, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Tuesday. It’s part of the agency’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
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Drones, including those used by consumers, businesses and the military, accounted for a $73 billion global industry last year, some estimates show, with the market likely to more than double by 2030.
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