SWAMPSCOTT — Officials from both Swampscott and Lynn congregated at Town Hall on Wednesday morning for a demonstration of clean-water technology. The experiment was conducted by Green Water Solutions. International Marketing Management Inc. and Save the Harbor/Save the Bay also helped organize the event. Green Water President and Chief Operating Officer Chas Antinone addressed the…

The passage of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21) by the U.S. House of Representatives is a major milestone for the digital asset industry. As head of the Blockchain Association, the leading trade group representing this sector, I’m heartened to see such strong bipartisan support for attempting to codify clear…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Transportation Security Administration continues to add its advanced facial recognition technology at airport checkpoints despite some opposition. What You Need To Know The TSA is continuing to add its CAT-2 advanced facial recognition technology at airport checkpoints Not everyone is on board with the technology The ACLU is concerned about privacy…

Mother thankful for wrong-way driver tech on local freeways Soon, wrong-way driver detection signage will line some of metro Detroit’s freeways in an effort to reduce high-speed crashes that happen when someone travels the wrong way. <!–> (FOX 2) – Late Tuesday night, law enforcement from Livingston County Sheriff’s office were sent to I-96 after…

The hits just keep on coming. By Bess Levin May 22, 2024 By Alex Wong/Getty Images. Save this storySave Save this storySave Rudy Giuliani is famously bad with technology. We’ve long known this because, among other things: He doesn’t know how to use AirPods; his company website, when he was working as a cybersecurity expert,…

News Corp., the multinational news publisher controlled by the Murdoch family, announced Wednesday it will allow artificial intelligence company OpenAI to show its news content when people ask questions in ChatGPT, adding to the parade of news organizations signing content deals with the fast-growing AI company. News Corp. and OpenAI did not share commercial terms…

In a protest vote to curb Mayor Brandon Johnson’s power, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance Wednesday aimed at saving a controversial gunshot detection technology contract Johnson plans to nix. The passage could lead to Johnson’s first veto, and the first veto by a Chicago mayor since former Mayor Richard M. Daley exercised the…

News release  Twenty-one College of the Canyons fire technology students have received $1,000 scholarships from Edison International to cover tuition, books and school-related fees.   The students are: Brandon Aghakhanian, Alexis Armenta , Layne Buck , Jacob Harrington, Rachel Lopez , Cooper Manno, Thomas Mardiros, Paul Peterson, Marcel Palare, Matthew Roa, Zachary Travers, Daniel Corcione, Jason…

In an effort to reduce office visits, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has now digitized more than 90% of services.  Now being offered to Golden State residents is a faster, easier and now-customizable DMV experience at self-serve “out-of-office options” at both DMV locations and retail locations such as grocery stores.  You need $2 million…

Meta has seen strikingly little AI-generated misinformation around the 2024 elections despite major votes in countries such as Indonesia, Taiwan, and Bangladesh, said the company’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, on Wednesday.  “The interesting thing so far—I stress, so far—is not how much but how little AI-generated content [there is],” said Clegg during an…