Emerging Tech

A remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a Defense Department pilot project.

Tulsa County commissioners heeded a call from their constituents Monday and postponed for a week a vote on whether to rezone approximately 400 acres north of Tulsa for a planned data center.

Toll road systems are modernizing with seamless payment portals and other forms of tech, enabling new options to make controlling congestion easy — and generate revenue other ways, as gas taxes decline.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that more drones will be providing aerial surveillance this summer at New York's Long Island State Beaches, patrolling for unsafe water conditions and dangerous marine life like sharks.

Leaders of the NIPSCO utility company were grilled in Indianapolis Tuesday over a proposal to create a new lightly regulated utility called GenCo to fund new data center infrastructure.

While mobile IDs promise new access for people with disabilities, a "one ID, one device" model and accessibility failures threaten to exacerbate the digital divide, according to experts in the field.

AI has the ability to impact numerous areas of the public sector, from government to education, tech officials said during the yearly Link Oregon meeting. They are preparing for its possibilities and challenges alike.

The district will be using a new AI-powered tool to gather feedback as part of its AI Public Listening Session later this month. Depending upon the results, officials may scale the technology for broader use.

States are rolling out internationally accepted mobile driver's licenses — but who's using them? A Government Technology investigation finds the adoption rates for many states are in the single digits.

The Greater Omaha Chamber and nonprofit Scott Data are working together in hopes of accelerating artificial intelligence use by local businesses. The latter maintains a 110,000-square-foot data center in the area.

Plus, learning American Sign Language with AI, the surge in ransomware attacks on governments in 2024, and self-driving cars hit a new speed record.

Google has purchased some 312 acres in Botetourt County, Va., for $14 million in order to potentially build a data center in the future, the county announced Tuesday.

Gov. Greg Abbott has signed 10 tech bills recently, including the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act. In a statement, he addressed the possible federal moratorium on state AI regulations.

More than 500 data centers populate Northern Virginia and about 200 of them are clustered around Ashburn and Sterling in east Loudoun County, earning the area the nickname Data Center Alley.

A new aircraft there has room for one person, can land on water, is equipped with a parachute, and can fly at night, costing less than a helicopter as well as needing less time to get airborne.

Senate Republicans added a provision that would ban states from enforcing any laws their state legislatures may have passed that regulate artificial intelligence to President Trump’s tax and budget bill.

After Illinois approved spending more than $700 million to attract the quantum industry, stakeholders are beginning to ink deals and make agreements to bring specific quantum companies to the state.

The California Report on Frontier AI Policy lays out regulatory principles prioritizing transparency and risk mitigation. It arrives as federal lawmakers consider a 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation.