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Verizon buries Skyward, its drone company

Verizon is shutting down Skyward, the drone startup it purchased in 2017. According to her LinkedIn profile, Skyward President Mariah Scott moved into Verizon’s new Robotics Business Technology division, which will focus on robots on the ground. It’s not clear how many total employees were affected by the shutdown. “Skyward, a Verizon company, announced that it was exiting its […]

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LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

The grief following a firefighter line-of-duty death (LODD) is beyond words. Fellow firefighters are devastated. Families are shattered. In the aftermath, questions arise about the circumstances: Was the loss preventable? What was the chain of actions leading to the catastrophe? Central to these questions is the role of incident command (IC), the command’s situational awareness, […]

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NextNav: Dan Hight talks GeoComm partnership, Z-axis location for 911

Dan Hight, NextNav’s vice president of business development and partnership, discusses the significance of the company’s new partnership with GeoComm, which plans to integrate the vertical-location (Z-axis) information into its Public Safety Location Intelligence platform when callers dial 911 from inside a building when seeking help during an emergency. This 911 Z-axis solution from […]

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Driverless Robosweeper brings AV tech to street cleaning

There’s a new tool in the battle to keep the streets of China clean – Robosweeper. What’s claimed to be the country’s first mass-produced, purpose-built, self-driving street sweeper has been revealed by WeRide, and a fleet of 50 will be put to the test next month. The groundbreaking vehicle is a result of a collaboration between […]

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Is battery-swap tech the smart option for electric vehicles?

For the first time ever, researchers in the University of Lisbon compared the plug-in charging, hydrogen and ICE scenarios against the lesser-known battery swapping scenario. While this long-term study is still underway, its latest conclusion is that the swapping model can be the best in terms of transportation’s burden on a nation’s GDP. It can […]

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Intel says chip shortage to last to 2024

A year ago, Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger said the chip shortage wouldn’t be over until 2023. Now make that 2024. “We expect the industry will continue to see challenges until at least 2024 in areas like foundry capacity and tool availability,” he told a conference call yesterday. Adding to the supply crunch is the fact […]

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RapidSOS hires Parkinson to head public-sector efforts

RapidSOS yesterday announced that it has hired Ed Parkinson—the FirstNet Authority CEO who announced his departure plans earlier this week—to be president of the company’s public-sector unit that works with 911 centers in North America today and potentially emergency control rooms in the future. “I’ve been looking for something with a mission, and I think […]

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Verizon Robotics to test drones at Oregon’s Pendleton Range

Verizon Robotics has chosen the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Systems Range in Oregon as the new proving ground for its drone development. The telecom giant’s robotics unit is expanding its operations and will base its advanced air R&D, drone partner and long-range robotics at the Pendleton Range, which offers more than 14,000 square miles of FAA-approved […]

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PSCR: Dereck Orr highlights features of June event in San Diego

Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), discusses the various offerings at the PSCR Annual Stakeholder Meeting, which will be conducted June 7-9 in San Diego at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter. For the first time in three years, the […]

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Newscan: Biden wants to give state and local police access to drone-tracking tech

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Biden wants to give state and local police access to drone-tracking tech FCC nominee Gigi Sohn gets pushback from some former Hill Democrats ‘Hack DHS’ program identifies 122 vulnerabilities across networks UK Home Office offers £140k for leader to oversee ESN deployment National Geospatial Agency will take over […]

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Verizon buries Skyward, its drone company

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LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

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NextNav: Dan Hight talks GeoComm partnership, Z-axis location for 911

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Driverless Robosweeper brings AV tech to street cleaning

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Is battery-swap tech the smart option for electric vehicles?

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Intel says chip shortage to last to 2024

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RapidSOS hires Parkinson to head public-sector efforts

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Verizon Robotics to test drones at Oregon’s Pendleton Range

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PSCR: Dereck Orr highlights features of June event in San Diego

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Newscan: Biden wants to give state and local police access to drone-tracking tech

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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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