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The event was reminiscent of the Wright brothers’ first flight 116 years ago, “But first in flight isn’t just something that we were — it’s something that we are.” Only this aircraft can go 80 mph with 600 pounds of cargo.
The system has been used in elections in six counties so far and will be implemented statewide come February. The voting machines use screens and paper to ensure security and will be used for the spring presidential primary.
The Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission has undertaken the development of a modern Web-based and intelligent system to be used for filing and managing compensation claims from workers.
Two nonpartisan apps, Register2Vote and MapTheVote, are helping Democrats get higher voter turnout than in previous years. But the increase in voter registration still might not be enough to turn the tides.
Gov tech is a young but quickly growing field. Our sister site, Government Technology, took a hard look at gov tech’s progress over the past five years and outlined the leading trends of the industry for the upcoming year.
Battery technology is allowing more powerful batteries for even the smallest devices. But all of that energy in such a small space can be dangerous and we should be mindful of good battery safety.
Technology aims to improve our lives through convenience and leisure, but when does it breach into something else? Is implanting microchips into employees convenient and leisurely, or just scary?
A proposal that would ban use of facial recognition technology was first voted on by the Portland, Maine, City Council in November. They voted to postpone. On Monday, the council voted unanimously to postpone again, this time until June.
The phone equipment company’s Snapdragon Ride platform focuses on driver assist technology and hopes to be foundational for driverless vehicles. Qualcomm hopes to see products with their platform in production by 2023.
The Ray, an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in southern Georgia, functions as a test bed for next-generation transportation technologies, including striping to enable autonomous vehicle use.
Reporting by ProPublica revealed that TurboTax’s host company, Intuit, had been deceiving customers into paying for what could have been free. The IRS has responded by dropping a long-standing agreement not to compete with industry by developing its own tax filing software.
State legislatures will have a lot on their plates. They’ll deal with issues in wildly differing ways. We set the context for the 2020 session with an overview of abortion, election security, housing, immigration, net neutrality, pensions, pre-emption, recession fears, redistricting, vaping, and workforce.
In 2013, the ultra-high-speed Internet claimed that Austin, Texas, would become an economic and technological hub. But the black-and-white success that was described nearly seven years ago now looks a bit more gray.
The law requires that the Secretary of State maintain a list of those who voted, the preferred political party of each voter, “[and] must provide the list to the chair of each major political party,” causing privacy concerns.
As technology becomes more competent, ensuring that humanity isn’t replaced or lost is an important part of moving forward.
Bad actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to manipulate images and video to misrepresent their subjects. As states work to legislate deepfake technologies, perhaps a federal approach would be better.
As more electric vehicles continue to roll onto American roads, EV charging stations have to follow suit. Some states have adequate charging infrastructure, but other states are extremely sparse and perpetuate “range anxiety.”
The financial system for any major organization is complex and that includes state and local government. Efforts to expand the capabilities of finance through new technology can lead to different results as these two examples show.
After a drone strike killed a high-ranking Iranian military official in Baghdad on Friday, American cybersecurity officials warn that the response could come in the form of cyberattacks.
Studies found that workers were less discriminatory against their fellow human coworkers once robots were introduced. Differences between beliefs or political views suddenly paled in comparison to human and non-human.
Caring, passionate, and having always pushed back against the status quo, Beth Niblock has used her role as Detroit Chief Information Officer to revitalize the city with technology after a tough period of bankruptcy.
As preparations for the first primarily digital U.S. Census ramp up in communities across the country, experts continue to caution that there will be misinformation campaigns designed to deter participation.
Everything government does is affected by technological change. Chronicling that change, and the challenges it creates, is our new focus.
Tesla is barred from selling cars in the state of Connecticut, so the electric vehicle company has jimmied a solution: lease cars instead. The DMV says that this way, the carmaker is still in compliance with the law.
A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that technology assistance systems in vehicles caused distraction in drivers. The foundation reiterated that technology should assist, but not replace.
The Grid Modernization Research and Development Act of 2019 hopes to research a way to secure the U.S.’s power grid from natural disasters and cyberthreats. Americans want to have “working electricity to help keep them safe.”
The state has a new privacy law on Jan. 1 that will attempt to set new standards for consumer data protection. But as tech becomes a norm for shopping, house security, and daily activities, data is hard to regulate.
All levels of government, as well as the private sector, face growing dangers from cyberthreats. That’s why there needs to be a centralized approach to cyberpolicies before a crisis occurs.
Fifteen years ago, voters told the state to roll back the personal income tax rate to 5 percent. But that mandate is just now being met, according to Gov. Charlie Baker, who announced the new rate for Jan 1.
The plan includes hurricane flood reduction and coastal restoration projects, with more than half the money coming from settlements related to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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