Emerging Tech

Two separate entities conducted nationwide studies, one in the first week of February and another in the first week of April, showing that the AI tool is popular at school on both sides of the lectern.

Despite initially blocking access to ChatGPT on district devices shortly after its release, a school district in Washington state has convened a committee of 16 teachers to develop policies for using it.

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.

The Amazon Web Services unit on Thursday announced two of its own large-language models, one designed to generate text, and another that could help power web search personalization, among other things.

Passwords are both annoying to use and vulnerable to hackers. Fortunately, big tech is moving to support stronger, easier-to-use passkeys.

Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD announced the new technological upgrades that will be coming to the police department, including a GPS tag system that tracks a vehicle's location remotely, and a robot K-9 that can be used in high-risk situations.

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.

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.

Adjunct professor Russell Crispell at Niagara County Community College in New York uses VR headsets and 360-degree YouTube videos to immerse students in different scenarios requiring first aid training.

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.

Colleges and universities are convening working groups, rewriting academic integrity policies and preparing to use plagiarism checkers while professors think of ways to integrate generative AI into their curricula.

Muscatine, Iowa, will soon be the site of the first 3D-printed home in the state. The project is part of a community-led initiative to build four affordable and sustainable houses.

Author Vidhu Shekhar explores the ways government entities can harness new AI technology, plus ideas for fostering meaningful collaboration between AI practitioners and government officials.

While it's too soon to say what the lasting impact of ChatGPT will be, many educators see its transformative potential as an inevitability, something to be embraced and experimented with rather than fought.

Dozens of New Jersey communities, school districts and private companies will soon be able to replace some of their diesel-burning heavy vehicles with electric versions thanks to funding from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

The troves of data collected by smart city devices can be put to use developing a digital twin of a city or neighborhood for better understanding new developments or other changes to the area.

Plus the sharp rise in IoT cyber attacks in 2022, a new milestone for driverless car company Cruise and the going rate for a first-generation iPhone new in the package.

There are still far more questions than answers about what the rapidly evolving technology will mean for the lives of everyday people when it comes to how we work, learn and use the Internet.