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The continued slide of the United States in funding university research as a share of GDP. The top 12 governments on the list invest more than double that of the United States. Such investments have been credited for undergirding the U.S. technological dominance since
World War II.
In September 2020, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship will leave England and arrive in Massachusetts two weeks later, all unmanned. The project is being headed by ProMare and IBM and looks nothing like the Mayflower of 1620.
California’s recent PG&E power outage left thousands without any telephone or power access. Worried about safety, customers and service providers are searching for ways to keep the phones on.
San Diego, Calif., proposes two tax increases to fund bus and high-speed rail investments with hopes of increasing public transit use. While it’s not impossible, “it’s really hard to change.”
The automatic voter registration California implemented through its DMV registration made 105,000 errors in its first year. Concerns grow for the noncitizens as their voter registration could prompt deportation.
The Seattle-based digital retailer hopes to buy favors from local politicians with record-setting sums of cash. In addition to Amazon corporate donations, a small group of executives, called the ‘S Team,’ is donating as well.
The number of American states that use one or more election services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to a presentation seen by Reuters. “While it does not handle voting on election day, AWS … now runs state and county election websites, stores voter registration rolls and ballot data, facilitates overseas voting by military personnel and helps provide live election-night results.”
Uber will swing scooter prices by as much as 30 cents per minute, depending on local demand: higher costs where scooters are used and lower where they’re parked. The surge pricing will start in Dallas and Tampa, Fla.
A study by the U.S. Travel Association showed that almost 75 percent of Americans don’t have a Real ID. This means that three-quarters of Americans may be fighting for DMV appointments before the October 2020 deadline.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first-ever all-female spacewalk on Friday morning. After a mishap scuttled the walk in March, the all-female walk set new precedents for space equity and female futures in STEM.
After a controversial, statewide power outage, the utility company is keeping local officials at arm’s length. It seems PG&E’s “primary goal was protecting itself from liability,” not the millions without power.
As school officials across the country worry about how to stop the next mass shooting, biometric technologies and expanded surveillance systems have become attractive alternatives to traditional security procedures.
Brain functions integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including sight and smell – which simply can't be handled in the way computers sense, process and store data.
The number of electric vehicle charging stations that will constitute Ford-Amazon’s proposed network. The two companies teamed up to establish the largest charging station network in North American with 12,000 different locations.
A lawsuit claims the Bird and Lime rental scooters clog sidewalks, making the city unsafe for people with impaired mobility and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The annual meeting of state chief technologists points to a cloud- and mobile-focused future.
The Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga is one of the country’s richest targets for cyberterrorists with seven nuclear reactors and dozens of hydroelectric dams. It also provides electricity to a nearby nuclear weapons arsenal.
Months after a ransomware attack cost the city around $18 million, officials approved the purchase of a cyberliability policy to help with any future incidents. The move is one being made by governments across the U.S.
Gov. Brian Kemp has made demands for 4 percent spending cuts this year and 6 percent next year, and hopes to wring from state government about $500 million over the next two budget years.
In Chattanooga, speakers at a public hearing expressed concern over the state’s plan to seek a federal waiver that would turn TennCare into a block grant to save money. Many fear service cuts if the plan goes through.
Spending largely increased across the state’s 23 departments except for seven, including transportation, where voters have expected to see increased spending to fix deteriorating roads and bridges.
As ratings firms begin to focus on climate change, those involved in the market say now is the time for communities to make investments in climate resilience or risk being punished by the financial sector in the future.
Already, 320 people have paid the fee for a near-space-orbit trip aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which comes with exclusive gold-lined space suits by Under Armour that were unveiled earlier this week. When asked where else she would wear it, one would-be space tourist said, “every Halloween for the rest of my life.”
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, has partnered with U.S. Strategic Command to help monitor and understand the litany of satellites and debris in the atmosphere, giving students invaluable hands-on experience.
SpaceX revealed its plan to have a network of 30,000 satellites to ensure better rates and reliability. Yet some think they could be a way to keep competitors out of the atmosphere, for fear of collision.
Facebook, Google and Lyft are among the many tech companies setting up satellite offices in the Denver area. But if Denver real-estate prices continue to increase, “The Great Tech Migration” may move on.
The Los Angeles Police Department will make changes to PredPol, its predictive-policing program, after criticism that the program is racist and ineffective in reducing crime. The adjustments are to happen in early 2020.
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