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Amazon Announces Investment in Prefab Homes
Amazon's Seattle campus (Credit: Amazon) Amazon has announced an investment in Plant Prefab, a start-up that builds prefabricated single, and multifamily homes, Architectural Digest reports. Related...
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Mobile Laundry Services for Australians Experiencing Homelessness Wins $1M Grant
Orange Sky's vans carry washers, dryers, and orange chairs so patrons and volunteers and enjoy some "non-judgmental" conversation while cleaning clothes. (Screenshot courtesy of Orange Sky Australia)...
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Waymo Self-Driving Taxis Will Launch in Phoenix in December
Waymo's Pacifica driverless minivans are said to comprise a major part of the fleet for the as-yet unnamed robotaxi service. (Photo by Daniel Cardenas) Waymo, the self-driving car startup run by...
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Who’s Bucking the Trend on Diversity in High-Tech Jobs?
(Photo by Jiuguang Wang) Women and people of color are generally underrepresented in “high-level” digital fields like programming, but there are eight cities bucking the trend, according to new...
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More Lawmakers Looking into Banning Cashless Restaurants
In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018, photo, employees prepare customers food at Peli Peli Kitchen in Houston. Owner Thomas Nguyen had a change of heart after transitioning one of his three Peli Peli South...
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Making Sure All of Detroit Has a Voice on Sustainability
(Credit: coUrbanize/Detroit Office of Sustainability) To get a sense of how Detroiters think about sustainability in their city, you can start with this map. Location-based comments left by residents...
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How This Southern City Is Making Tech Work for People
Downtown Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Photo/David Tulis) A lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama, Anthony Hood, Ph.D., worked for ten years in coding, systems design and network engineering for...
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Google Pulls the Plug on Fiber in Louisville
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Google has informed Fiber customers in Louisville that their service will end April 15. Related Stories Comcast Brings “Internet of Things” Network to 12 CitiesThis...
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Can Tech Help Workplace Sexual Harassment Survivors Connect and Organize?
Survivors from the Sexual Harassment Working Group Members speak to New York state legislators during a public hearing on sexual harassment in the workplace Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Albany, N.Y....
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How Tech Helped San Francisco Clear 9,300 Marijuana Convictions
In this April 20, 2018 file photo, a marijuana plant is seen on Hippie Hill in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson, File) San Francisco will expunge nearly 10,000 marijuana-related convictions that...
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San Jose Digital Inclusion Fund Will Be the Largest in the Country
San Jose City Hall. San Jose will bring high-speed internet to 50,000 homes in the next 10 years thanks to the launch of a “Digital Inclusion Fund” funded in part by the fees the city will charge...
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How L.A. County Made Collecting Child Support Less Punitive
The first communication a person would receive from L.A. County Child Support Services Department was a 30-page letter. The second would be a court summons. Simply reforming the process to include a...
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Mythbusting an Online Degree Program
UF’s MURP Online students utilize innovative software (such as Zoom) to interact, participate, and present to live audiences and fellow students. Pictured: Dr. Ruth Steiner, URP 6716 Transportation...
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Second U.S. City Bans Facial Recognition, Technology That Could Exacerbate...
(Photo by Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0) Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, recently banned the use of facial recognition technology by the city’s government and police force. The ban makes...
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Why a Makerspace Popped Up In a Museum
(Courtesy Science Museum of Virginia) Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science...
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Place-Based Grants Will Investigate How to Diversify NYC Tech
Per Scholas is one of seven entities that have received a microgrant from the New York City Economic Development Corporation to study how to expand its offerings to more New Yorkers. (Photo courtesy...
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Can Cheap Internet Close the Digital Divide?
(Photo by Casper Folsing / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Iona Livingston, 53, always wanted to work in a hospital setting. To get there, she is enrolled in an associate’s degree program to learn medical coding....
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Open Data Shines a Light on Cities’ Top Challenges
A young woman uses a smartphone in Washington Square, New York. (Photo by Claudio Alvarado Solari / CC BY-NC 2.0) From reports of potholes and broken streetlights to complaints about garbage and...
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Data Science Could Help Californians Battle Future Wildfires
A firefighter battles the Maria Fire Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, in Somis, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) A major wildfire spread through Colorado, and I spent long hours locating shelters,...
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Cities and States Take Up the Battle for an Open Internet
(Photo by Joseph Gruber / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon are free to slow down, block or prioritize internet traffic as they wish, without interference by the...
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