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Smart-city technology project reaches 100-city milestone

Rubicon, a developer of smart waste and recycling solutions for smart cities, has reached a new milestone. The company’s smart city technology has now been deployed in more than 100 cities. The milestone was achieved in six years and includes the cities of Houston, Miami, Atlanta and Denver, all of which were added at the […]

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

Amid calls for accountability, one financial analyst firm estimates it will cost up to $60 billion to remove thousands of aging telecom cables covered in lead. According to the firm, New Street Research, AT&T is squarely in the crosshairs. “AT&T likely has the highest [financial] exposure overall, followed by Verizon and Lumen,” the firm wrote […]

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

Local governments will increase their budgets in at least one technology in the coming year, says Kevin Taylor, area sales manager at Axis Communications, a producer of video surveillance equipment and other products. “We are optimistic about the growth of video-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in local government. We are at a nexus where the […]

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Where ChatGPT fits in the Internet of Things

ChatGPT’s debut last November – and the publicity it generated – has sparked a widespread interest in the generative AI technology it uses and its possible applications. The human-like text the sophisticated chatbot produces has had some worrying that a self-aware robot threatening humanity waits around the corner. Luckily, the more fantastic fears of an […]

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Illinois bans drones from using facial-recognition technology

The state of Illinois has signed a new act barring law enforcement’s use of drones for facial recognition, barring a few exceptions. The legislation, the Drones as First Responders Act, stipulates that law enforcement agencies can use drones for security at public events, but bans fitting them with facial recognition, photography capabilities or weaponry. Facial recognition […]

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Supporting hurricane response in Puerto Rico with aerial imagery

When Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico in September of 2022, resultant flooding and landslides caused significant damage on the island. Local and federal government agencies and insurance companies needed to determine the location and extent of this damage in a timely manner for restoration and assessment. With such a large area of potential impact—Puerto Rico […]

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FirstNet Authority CEO reflects on first 100 days, shares vision for future

SAN DIEGO—Public safety is leveraging ever-increasing amounts of data when making emergency-response decisions, but such information is useful only if it can be shared via a dependable network—something the FirstNet Authority plans to provide, according to CEO Joe Wassel. Kicking off 5×5: The Public Safety Innovation Summit, Wassel reiterated the key finding of the FirstNet […]

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

FirstNet Authority officials yesterday released the 2023 update to the organization’s Roadmap, which highlighted technological innovations associated with the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) but repeatedly referenced first responders’ need for reliable communications that “simply work” in even difficult environments. Informed by public-safety input collected via multiple outreach avenues, the FirstNet Authority Roadmap (access the […]

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

Every time I read about a public safety agency being short staffed, with a burnt-out workforce, draining their overtime budget, I feel their pain. From New York to New Mexico and in communities all across the nation, police and fire departments routinely are forced to mandate longer shifts, which takes an emotional toll and raises […]

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Sen. Schumer’s ‘ambitious’ new approach to AI regulation

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is proposing a new way to regulate AI since it is “unlike anything Congress has dealt with before.” In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the New York senator said he will not take the typical approach of holding congressional hearings that feature opening statements and 5-minute […]

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Smart-city technology project reaches 100-city milestone

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

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Where ChatGPT fits in the Internet of Things

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Illinois bans drones from using facial-recognition technology

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Supporting hurricane response in Puerto Rico with aerial imagery

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FirstNet Authority CEO reflects on first 100 days, shares vision for future

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

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Sen. Schumer’s ‘ambitious’ new approach to AI regulation

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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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