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UI modernization may get more funding, oversight
April 30, 2021 | NewsIn its 2022 budget, the Labor Department is asking for $100 million more to shore up state unemployment insurance systems and a check-and-balance system to ensure fixes happen.
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Can tech prevent cultural misunderstandings?
| NewsThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for natural language processing technologies that will make it easier for the military to avoid the kind of cross-cultural problems that can come from misunderstanding local dialects and social practices.
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Human-AI teaming for DC-based emergency response
April 29, 2021 | NewsMembers of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team are training an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that public safety officials should know about.
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‘Location spoofing’ creates deepfake satellite images
| NewsResearchers are working to identify new ways of detecting fake satellite photos, warn of the dangers of falsified geospatial data and call for a system of geographic fact-checking.
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Court will hear JEDI political interference case against Trump
| NewsA complaint of political inference by former President Donald Trump in the Defense Department’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019 may now proceed.
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What cities must do to responsibly deploy facial recognition solutions
| NewsThe National League of Cities has published recommendations for guiding conversations around how facial recognition technology is being implemented.
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NYC returns robotic dog
| NewsAfter complaints from residents, New York City’s “Digidog” has been sent back to its manufacturer.
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Data matching flags suspicious unemployment claims
April 28, 2021 | NewsThe National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ Integrity Data Hub has prevented about $243 million in improper unemployment insurance payments.
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Feds’ job satisfaction climbs in latest survey
| NewsResults from the Office of Personnel Management’s annual employee survey indicates federal employee job satisfaction improved during pandemic.
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FCC to share network outage data more broadly
| NewsThe Federal Communications Commission is planning to expand the sharing of communications network disruption data with certain agencies during emergencies.