Emerging Tech
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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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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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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.
