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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

Managing cities like Las Vegas takes discipline and vision. The city proper has a population of more than 600,000 and the larger Las Vegas metropolitan area has a population of more than 2 million, there is much to manage in the city environs, from public transportation to parking and traffic as well as streetlights and […]

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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

“Our entire edge strategy is based around what our customers actually need,” AT&T proclaimed in a recent blog post. The post was penned by Mo Katibeh, CMO of AT&T Business and champion of the company’s edge computing initiative. Katibeh told Light Reading recently that AT&T’s business customers have diverse needs, and that 5G edge compute is not […]

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NENA: Brandon Abley outlines volunteer need for NG911 Interoperability Oversight Commission

Brandon Abley, technical issues director for NENA, explains the purpose of the NG911 Interoperability Oversight Commission, an independent body established this week to oversee key security and location roles associated with next-generation 911 (NG911) interoperability, including the PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) and the NG911 Forest Guide. Nomination of volunteers willing to serve on the 14-member […]

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Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools

Jared VandenHeuvel, program coordinator at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), outlines the emergency scenarios that Winter Institute participants responded to during exercises conducted last week at Texas A&M University and the surrounding area. VandenHeuvel also discusses new communications tools and the need for different skill sets within response units to take advantage of […]

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

Interest in edge computing continues to build, as does confusion surrounding the architecture. The situation is similar when it comes to artificial intelligence. The prospect of moving AI to the edge might sound like a recipe for even more confusion. Performing artificial intelligence at the edge is often “just theory quoted in articles,” said Martin […]

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Matrix: Matthew Hodgson highlights benefits of secure, open-source collaboration tool

Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of Matrix and CEO/CTO of New Vector, outlines key features of Matrix, an open-source collaboration platform that is designed to be secure enough to support public-safety communications and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives for smart cities in an affordable manner. Hodgson spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson yesterday during […]

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City of Oakland turns to Motorola Solutions’ cloud-based disaster-recovery service for CAD

Oakland, Calif., has selected Motorola Solutions’ new cloud-based “Disaster Recovery as a Service” (DRaaS) solution as an alternative method to access the PremierOne CAD system in the event of an earthquake, wildfire or other incident that causes the on-premise infrastructure to be unavailable. City of Oakland CIO Andrew “Pete” Peterson said that he believes having […]

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To avoid disruption, ransomware victims continue to pay up

For all the cautions against doing so, one-third of organizations in a Proofpoint survey said they paid their attackers after getting infected with ransomware. Ransomware attacks on organizations are likely to continue unabated in the near term if the results of a new survey by Proofpoint are any indication. The security vendor recently polled 600 […]

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Newscan: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Clearview AI: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it Deploying body-worn cameras in a county jail Tillamook County suffers cyberattack USGS conducts Delaware River surveys with autonomous underwater vehicle Drone helps hurt hiker rappel 400 feet during rescue AMA’s Tyler Dobbs on Remote ID […]

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Virtual ruts may speed up driverless adoption

It could be pointed out that a skilled carpenter can sharpen a pencil with an axe. Luckily, you don’t have to perform the same feat because pencil sharpener is invented a long time ago but this is what is happening now in the modern AV industry. Engineers are a bit too set on training optical […]

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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

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NENA: Brandon Abley outlines volunteer need for NG911 Interoperability Oversight Commission

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Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

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Matrix: Matthew Hodgson highlights benefits of secure, open-source collaboration tool

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City of Oakland turns to Motorola Solutions’ cloud-based disaster-recovery service for CAD

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To avoid disruption, ransomware victims continue to pay up

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Newscan: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it

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Virtual ruts may speed up driverless adoption

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September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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