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News Mar 10 2025

U.S. Government Cuts Key Software Division Without Warning

TechRadar The budget for the U.S. General Services Administration’s Unit 18F has been virtually eliminated. The unit, which developed Login.gov and other public-facing IT services, was tasked with helping government agencies acquire and build technology, enhance user experience, and ensure services are accessible. Halting the unit’s work has impacted about 70 software engineers and strategists, […]

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News Jan 14 2025

How Smart Cities Leverage AI to Integrate Services, Improve Efficiency

What is stopping cities adopting ‘smart’ technology? Funding and co-operation are often an all-too-familiar problem. It takes many different departments working together, sometimes in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. For example, if local governments want to improve its transport network, it might also need to look at power and internet connections to handle the new […]

News Oct 23 2024

Datacenters Could Be Used as Residual Power Generators

TechRadar Researchers at Spain’s Distance University of Madrid and Colombia’s Mision Critica-Data Center found that datacenters can harness the airflow generated by cooling fans to produce their own electricity. Vertical axis Tesup V7 wind turbines were installed on top of chillers and used to capture the waste wind. Six wind turbines produced 513.82 MWh of […]

News Oct 8 2024

TechRadar A Stack Overflow survey of more than 3,000 U.K. developers revealed the most popular programming languages at present are JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, and Python. Rounding out the top 10 are Bash/Shell, TypeScript, C#, Java, C++, and PowerShell. Just 40% of the developers polled said they would continue using JavaScript, while 43% said their top […]

News Jul 11 2024

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