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1 week ago | 
statetechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Apr 16 2025 Security Police departments integrate video surveillance and other data into centralized hubs. In Cobb County, Ga., outside of Atlanta, members of an organized theft ring ran out of a store with armloads of expensive athletic wear, hopped in a getaway car with a covered license plate and sped off out of the county’s jurisdiction. Thanks to the Cobb County Police Department’s real-time crime center (RTCC), the suspects were in custody within an hour.
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1 week ago | 
edtechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Skip to main content Apr 15 2025 Management As artificial intelligence tools become ubiquitous, districts must make critical decisions that could reshape teaching and learning for years to come. As recently as the 2022-2023 school year, only 10% of teachers had used generative artificial intelligence tools in their classroom, according to HMH.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.mit.edu | Calvin Hennick
Renewable power sources have seen unprecedented levels of investment in recent years. But with political uncertainty clouding the future of subsidies for green energy, these technologies must begin to compete with fossil fuels on equal footing, said participants at the 2025 MIT Energy Conference. “What these technologies need less is training wheels, and more of a level playing field,” said Brian Deese, an MIT Institute Innovation Fellow, during a conference-opening keynote panel.
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3 weeks ago | 
biztechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Mar 28 2025 Security Three organizations have found the right balance between ease of use and network protection. When Trane Technologies’ technicians are in the field, they need instant access to their IT applications to serve the company’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning customers.
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1 month ago | 
fedtechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Feb 28 2025 Cloud Officials say they’ve bolstered the technology that supports awarding government funds. For most of its history, the Environmental Protection Agency has largely been considered a regulatory organization. But over the past several years, with the passage of two landmark pieces of funding legislation, the agency suddenly found itself distributing billions of dollars more per year than it ever had.
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2 months ago | 
statetechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Jan 28 2025 Security Artificial intelligence capabilities help municipalities monitor areas for trespassers. The prank sounds harmless enough: High school students wait until dark, pour soap into a public fountain and laugh as it fills up with bubbles. But when it happened 17 times in one year — ruining several $30,000 pumps and requiring a two-day cleanup process each time — city officials in Opelika, Ala., began searching for a tech solution to put an end to the hijinks.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
edtechmagazine.com | Calvin Hennick
Jan 09 2025 Cloud Three districts that made early investments in cloud computing share how the IT model has changed operations, maintenance and instruction. A bit over a decade ago, some forward-thinking school districts began to transition their on-premises email to the cloud. Around the same time, Chromebooks popped up, and as more schools invested in one-to-one device initiatives, more students connected to Google’s suite of cloud applications.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bostonparentspaper.com | Calvin Hennick
Three Perfect Days in the Big Apple: Landmarks, Museums, and Broadway AdventuresTraveling to one of the world’s great cities can feel like a lot of pressure. You might never be back—especially while your kids are still young—and so you burn yourself out hustling from one must-see attraction to the next, trying to cram it all in. The great thing about New York City (for Bostonians, at least): It’s not only right there, but it’s also always there.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.mit.edu | Calvin Hennick
Joseph F. DeCarolis, administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), has one overarching piece of advice for anyone poring over long-term energy projections. “Whatever you do, don’t start believing the numbers,” DeCarolis said at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Fall Colloquium. “There’s a tendency when you sit in front of the computer and you’re watching the model spit out numbers at you … that you’ll really start to believe those numbers with high precision. Don’t fall for it.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nshoremag.com | Calvin Hennick
Baby, it’s cold outside. But that doesn’t mean your feet need to look like plastic-wrapped marshmallows. Instead of clunky winter clodhoppers, consider snagging a pair of boots that will both keep you warm and have you looking your best. We spoke with Marisa Meloski, owner and personal stylist at Stilista|Boston, to get her thoughts on how to style these six pairs of men’s boots for the long, cold winter ahead.
