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MTA to host transit hackathon
February 10, 2016 | NewsNew York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is enlisting techies to crunch ridership and route data to improve bus transit on Staten Island.
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New York to build emerging tech R&D center
| NewsThe Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship Complex on the University of Albany campus will provide the state’s technology industry with more resources to drive economic growth.
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77 cities respond to Smart City Challenge
February 09, 2016 | NewsThe winner of the Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge will receive more than $50 million in funding and support to improve its transportation network.
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Drone collects El Niño data
| NewsThe data collected by the NASA Global Hawk will help scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration better understand El Niño's influence on weather in the United States.
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Notwithstanding endeavors to eschew obfuscation, website readability drops
| NewsMore than five years after President Barack Obama signed the Plain Writing Act, a new report finds the readability of federal agency websites has gotten worse.
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What’s behind most data center outages?
| NewsCyber crimes and equipment failures may run far behind human error.
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Federal 100 winners announced
| NewsThe annual program recognizes 100 individuals who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community.
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Reverse-engineering the brain to improve machine learning
February 08, 2016 | NewsResearchers are working to decipher how the brain’s visual system processes information in hopes of advancing machine learning algorithms and computer vision.
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Gigabit Internet comes to KC public housing
| NewsThe Kansas City Housing Authority is working with Google to bring free gigabit Internet to over 1,300 families in the metro area.
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Solving art history mysteries with open data
| NewsMaking provenance data open and accessible gives more people information about a piece’s sometimes sordid history, including clues that might uncover evidence of Nazi confiscation.