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By GCN Staff Feb 24, 2021 FirstNet added nearly 100,000 square miles of coverage in 2020, bringing the nationwide wireless broadband public-safety network’s communications capabilities to a total of 15,000 subscribing agencies and organizations via 1.9 million LTE connections across more than 2.71 million square miles.  The network, which AT&T started to build out in 2017, is ahead of schedule deploying Band 14 coverage, company officials said in a statement.  The company also plans to ins...

Data from mobile ticketing, contactless fare collection systems and ride-share services can help small cities and transit authorities gain real-time insights into their transit routes and schedules to help optimize operations.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 24, 2021 To handle the explosion of data in the electric industry, better big data analytics is needed, according to the Energy Department’s Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC). Its February report states that data sources are growing thanks to smart meters for field measurements and electric vehicle charging, radar for weather measurements and asset monitoring, such as embedded sensors for condition-based observations. Although the resultant big data contains valua...

While the casinos in Las Vegas are still busy, emerging technologies mean that online casinos now rival traditional brick-and-mortar establishments. Improving technology over the last few years means that online casinos offer amazing graphics, exciting gameplay and a huge variety of favorite games. People can play from the comfort of their own homes and they are loving this experience.

By GCN Staff Feb 23, 2021 The Air Force is considering using DevSecOps to upgrade the software on the C-130, a versatile military transport aircraft that has been in use since 1956. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Air Mobility Command seeking two partner companies to work with aircraft prime Lockheed Martin to transform software development culture and practices. It wants recommendations for how to implement a digital enterprise strategy on the C-130 platform by transiting legacy sof...

Google has fired both leaders of its Ethical AI unit, raising concerns about the direction of the team as the company has come under fire about a number of diversity issues. The December firing of ethical AI expert Timnit Gebru has been cited as one of the reasons workers formed the Alphabet Worker Union, the first major union in Silicon Valley.

Instead of supporting continuous innovation and upgrades to existing systems, we have been seduced by the siren song of exotic new systems that come with equally exotic price tags.

FEATURE NEWS In An Increasingly Digital World, The Theft of Intellectual Property is On The Rise: How Can Organizations Prepare? By Arti LoftusFebruary 23, 2021 Intangible assets, including inventions, software code, digital products, connected physical products, and data analytics, are becoming the fuel for the new global economy. Over the last two decades, the volume of annual investments in intellectual property products increased by 87% in the EU,...

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At a Feb. 22 virtual event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies., Sudhakar Ramakrishna said "this is not a one-company issue."