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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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In a split vote on Tuesday, the Frederick County Council voted to approve a bill that will create a special zoning mechanism for data centers and the electric substations that power them.
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Albuquerque will host this year's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Quantum Week conference — a first for the city as New Mexico makes a name for itself in the quickly evolving industry.
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Bristol, Tenn., officials are considering a two-year moratorium on new data processing centers as they study how the growing industry could impact the city.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed three bills aimed at preventing sexual harassment by making it a crime to create and distribute generative AI images or videos that feature a specific person in sexual situations.
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Despite neighbors’ protests, the Statesville Planning Board unanimously backed a Texas developer’s planned data center on hundreds of acres of lush green farmland in western Iredell County.
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One could argue that our biometric privacy rules are a very important tool in protecting personal privacy, and that they are becoming even more important as tech continues to evolve.
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Since the announcement that Google is considering building a data center in Botetourt County, questions have swirled about how a project of that scale could impact the region’s utilities — especially water.
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Lidar, which measures how long it takes for pulses of laser light to bounce off surfaces and return, has been used in topographic mapping for decades, and now it has a very timely function.
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The City Council on Thursday called for a special council meeting, set for Friday afternoon, to consider banning data center building projects for one year.
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It won’t have a crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit.
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As part of its work, the lab hosts virtual debriefings with municipal governments, nonprofit organizations and other public agencies after extreme weather events happen in the summer.
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Bergen County, N.J., is using the company’s tech for property records management. Leaders from the company — itself based in New Jersey — discuss what’s next for blockchain among state and local governments.
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The move comes after weeks of consternation from residents, reports alleging pollution concerns, and allegations that the data center site was largely owned by a relative of St. Charles’ mayor.
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The information the cameras collect will be sent to Dallas’ code compliance office for independent review — by a human being rather than a computer, a city spokesperson has said.
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Dallas-based Compass Datacenters filed rezoning plans with the city of Statesville, N.C., aiming to construct a five-building center that spans 340 acres in a rural area.
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Plus, the high rates of digital identity theft in 2024, what people really think about AI customer service agents, and saying goodbye to the Blue Screen of Death.
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A human-sized patrol robot named Parker, meant to record and deter crime in Montgomery County parking garages, was sidelined late last month over privacy and transparency concerns.
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The Pentagon has launched its first experimental navigation satellite in nearly five decades, aiming to test out a new technology that could shape future military GPS programs.
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