TechNexus: Terry Howerton highlights challenges, opportunities for vendors in public-safety sector

It’s not often that two synergistic, paradigm-shifting technologies mature at the same time, yet both generative artificial intelligence and the ambient Internet of Things are ascendant. These symbiotic advances are poised to reinvent industries, protect public health and help fight climate change. Let’s start with generative AI, which gets all the headlines (and investment) but […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s return and his promised shift to a more insular foreign policy will likely result in a new set of cyber threats, fewer regulations for most industrial sectors, and possible business-friendly federal privacy legislation, cybersecurity and legal experts say. The president-elect is moving quickly with nominations for cabinet officials and other high-level appointees. […]

ZeroEyes recently announced that its gun-detection offering—an artificial intelligence (AI)-based video analytics platform—has earned full SAFETY Act designation from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which eliminates third-party liability for ZeroEyes customers to claims made from acts of terrorism. ZeroEyes co-founder Sam Alaimo explained the legal and financial significance of the company’s new DHS designation […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a plan from drone-flight management company Anra Technologies and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to use Anra technology to enable beyond-visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations by NYPA’s drones. The FAA Letter of Acceptance (LOA) allows Anra to deploy its strategic conflict detection and aggregated conformance monitoring services, collectively known as strategic […]