Emerging Tech

After a somewhat chaotic year in which professors grew suspicious of their students' writing and navigated new territory largely without clear guidance, colleges and universities still face inevitable change.

A recent survey of Golden State residents found that around 70 percent have no backup power in the event of a blackout. What’s more, one out of every three people surveyed expected their power to fail repeatedly in the near future.

Are new human rights the answer? While neurotechnologies do raise significant privacy concerns, it could be argued that the risks are similar to those for more familiar data-collection technologies.

CAPTCHAs have been around for decades, but new AI advances are changing the methods required to prove you are a real person. So where next with human verification — and user frustrations?

There are many definitions of artificial intelligence, and it’s been embedded in software for years, but recent advances carry new potential to personalize education, tutor students and automate aspects of school operation.

The gov tech provider has launched ClearPlans, designed to help municipalities streamline strategic planning. Platform tools include budgeting, digital publishing, dashboard and tracking features.

Some 12 percent of Houston’s workforce is at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence systems in the next five years, according to a recent study from a business research company.

Flock sells license plate reading tech, while Ubicquia’s smart city communication platform is used by some 700 customers. By working together, the gov tech firms want to help police solve more crimes while reducing costs.

Southwest Airlines and American Airlines will give their input on a new flight demonstrator project and the development of a new research aircraft, as part of a collaboration between Boeing and NASA.

Lawyers can run into trouble with generative AI, and a few courts have pushed back on its use. Others, however, see the tech as a time-saver. Deepfaked evidence, meanwhile, is a growing concern.

According to a national survey of over 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds by research firm Big Village, 44 percent of them said they're likely to use AI to do their schoolwork for them, while 60 percent consider that cheating.

At least 1,400 police departments across the country are using drones in some fashion, but only 15 have obtained waivers from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly their drones beyond the visual line of sight. That is about to change, experts say.

Addressing a recent conference for the STEM Leadership Alliance, Norwalk Public Schools Superintendent Alexandra Estrella emphasized the need to prepare students for a world in which AI will be part of daily life.

The nonprofit International Society for Technology in Education is developing Stretch, an AI chatbot intended to be factually reliable, by training it only on information created or approved by educators.

As cities, counties and states deal with hacks, data leaks and other malicious attacks, the Seattle-based firm is debuting a security tool designed for public agencies. The company’s clients include Dallas County.

The kind of computing power needed to keep artificial intelligence running is significant, leading some to ask whether the technology is capable of finding new innovations to balance it all out.

Nearly 70 percent of 300 survey respondents said they were more interested in the quality of educational content than whether or not it was created by AI, a possible sign that skepticism about AI is waning.

For more than 10 years, researchers at the university and its affiliated medical center have been developing an artificial intelligence tool to identify heart attacks more quickly and accurately by analyzing EKG data.