AWS expands cloud challenge to include schools
Amazon Web Services' City on a Cloud Challenge awards AWS credits to governments and schools with innovative cloud ideas.
CDC wants better data to manage global communicable diseases
Aviation intelligence data on flight schedules and passengers will help public health analysts understand how global diseases are spread through air travel.
America’s broadband market needs more competition
Weak competition yields high prices for consumers and little pressure for companies to upgrade their networks to offer better service.
IBM pushes toward quantum goal
The company announced plans to scale its systems to 50 qubits and make them commercially available for business and collaborative scientific research.
Fearing Cuts, Many Women Stock Up on Birth Control
Nearly 8 million U.S. women receive free birth control services, and many of them are worried.
Zika Makes Microcephaly 20 Times More Likely
A new CDC report begins to quantify the devastating effects the virus has on children.
Regional Plan Association Prepares for N.Y.C.-Area Resilience Overhaul
Four corridors in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will be redesigned for the first time in decades, with architects and planners addressing ecology and infrastructure challenges.
DARPA Tests Dirty-Bomb Hunting Ambulances
The detectors in Washington, D.C., gathered about 100,000 hours of data and traveled a total of about 150,000 miles.
Follow the Data Trail: Using Analytics to Defeat Fraud
Why taxpayers are still paying entitlement benefits to dead people—and other fraudsters.
Why Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law Is Preemption on Steroids
A new survey of local government leaders in the Great Lakes State finds widespread agreement that this approach—while offering some benefits—simply goes too far.
Stingray Redactions Sting Tacoma; N.Y. State Worker’s 3,312 Hours of Overtime
Also in our State and Local Weekend Digest: Santa Fe weighs soda tax; major scrutiny for Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs; and South Carolina faces major pothole lawsuit.
Making the case for smarter military bases
Military bases can benefit from technology that many American cities have already begun to test.
California opens access to public business conducted on private devices
Communications by government officials in California who use personal devices or email accounts to conduct official business may be subject to disclosure under the California Public Record Acts.
It’s not all rocket science: NASA's software catalog
NASA has released the latest software catalog listing the applications developed by the space agency that users can download.
Why Teens Still Don’t Want to Get a Driver’s License
Teens are getting driver’s licenses at lower rates than they used to, partly because of licensing restrictions and an explosion of ride-sharing services.
A survival guide for the coming AI revolution
Artificial intelligence will disrupt fields where human processing power falls short, but it can create opportunities that embrace creativity, social intelligence and manipulation.
Congress proposes grants for state, local cybersecurity
The State Cyber Resiliency Act would set up a grant program to help develop and implement cyber resiliency plans and build a stronger cybersecurity workforce.
Mayors Worry Looming Federal Cuts Could Deal Heavy Blow to City Budgets
“The only place you can take it from are the things that we use to actually protect our cities,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an interview.
New Bill Would Expand DHS Cyber Aid to State and Local Governments
The bipartisan legislation was prompted by concerns about state and local governments’ abilities to protect critical infrastructure in their states from cyberattacks as well as citizen data.
Mayors to Capitol Hill Republicans and the White House: Don’t Forget Broadband
Infrastructure policy discussions are underway with President Trump calling for a $1 trillion public-private package, and cities want reliable high-speed internet included.
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