Sentences with phrase «cities use technology»

Previously, she was one of the first Innovation Fellows for the City of San Francisco and has helped cities use technology to innovate workforce and other civic services.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

In theory we could create enormous floating cities using this technology, with food and energy created by the pumps, and cool the planet at the same time.

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Ratti, who runs an MIT research project exploring new technologies and design in cities, used heat...

Why you should care: Oscar, which officially launched in New York City in January, aims to use technology to create a better, more consumer - friendly health insurance company.

That's a small step in the right direction, but it's hardly the best use of the technology that is available in other cities, going all the way up to experiments with driverless cars, which we're not even legally able to carry out in this province.

Garden City Booragoon has gone high - tech to attract and retain more shoppers over the school holidays, launching an interactive augmented reality system using technology developed in Europe.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

Security is a huge concern in cities throughout the world: how are police using technology to predict where crimes are going to take place?

Using technology and architecture, Hamburg and Songdo are two cities striving to be sustainable - what makes them so special?

The book begins with an overview of the renewable energy technologies we have now, and then moves on to discuss food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, and materials.

Primarily focused on semiconductor - based technologies, our products are used in highly diverse applications ranging from virtual reality to autonomous driving and from smartphones to networked, intelligent lighting solutions in buildings and cities.

Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (The Verge) Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For LifTechnology (The Verge) Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For Liftechnology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For Life program.

The regulations would impose penalties on ride services using technology that is not registered with the city's hackney division, which oversees taxi services, starting with $ 100 fines.

Under his leadership, the New York City - based agency provides an incubator - like experience that helps established brands and entrepreneurs design, develop, and scale their businesses using new mobile, digital and artificial intelligence technologies.

The company's lead designer shares how he is using data and technology to enhance user experiences and why cashless cities will soon become the norm.

Technology can and will be used if necessary to bypass port cities.

The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth of developing smart cities — urban areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber admitted it used a tool to thwart city regulators in a statement Wednesday that announced a review of its controversial Greyball technology.

Last month, Uber admitted that it would stop using a technology called Greyball, first reported by The New York Times, to deceive city officials who wanted to take rides in an attempt to regulate the service.

Launched in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles (with a satellite office in New York City), Patch of Land uses technology and data to provide transparent and low - minimum real estate investing opportunities in both residential and commercial projects.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

«We continue to innovate and learn through our ever - increasing use of technology in the overall Shack experience, demonstrated most recently with our cashless, kiosk - only, and new kitchen design at Astor Place in New York City,» he said.

The McFly.aero Technology and Business Incubator on Thursday launched its initial coin offering (ICO) to build a network of flying cars for mass use as air taxis in cities.

«While our investigation is ongoing and we will inform the City if this conclusion changes, our review indicates that Uber has not used the Greyball technology with respect to regulators in Portland at any time during or since the implementation of Portland's [Transportation Network Company] regulations and pilot program in April 2015,» Uber wrote.

Harvey Cox, the theological popularizer and prophet who wrote The Secular City in 1965 in celebration of the new freedom given to us by secularization and urbanization, has since that time shifted his emphasis to deploring the threat of technological imperialism.61 He believes that technology and its artifacts currently «release emotions incommensurate with their mere utility,» i.e., they «arouse hopes and fears only indirectly - related to their use.»

As congregants entered any one of the church's five locations throughout Music City, they were greeted by smiling Facebook employees inviting them to laptops where they could learn to use technology to connect with other church members.

As the fresh produce industry integrates new technologies throughout the supply chain, China has emerged as a leader in some key areas, especially technologies that reduce friction points for the consumer such as mobile payments (with an estimated 94 % penetration rate in first tier cities), app - based food delivery and, a big buzzword in China right now, «O2O,» or online - to - offline — which describes a range of technologies and strategies for using internet - based tools to facilitate brick - and - mortar sales, and vice versa.

First of all: Every Vertical Farm is different and Construction and Operation costs depend on city location, availability, technology used, local laws and Policy, energy source, climate, type of building and many other variables.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Based in New York City, our international network of fertility clinics offers balanced and holistic approaches to IVF, finding unparalleled success using the latest IVF technology.

Redwood City, Calif. — April 13, 2009 - Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing technologies, announced today that it has joined the Family Online Safety Institute, an international non-profit organization dedicated to identifying and promoting best practices, tools and methods to protect children using the Internet.

Sperm donation, the oldest and most frequently used reproductive technology, was cloaked in secrecy from the start, said Patricia Mendell, a clinical social worker in New York City who specializes in infertility issues.

Before serving in the Assembly, as Chief of Staff for then - City Councilmember and current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brian negotiated enactment of several significant new laws, including the Domestic Worker Protection Act, promoting the rights of housekeepers and caregivers, and laws to foster the use of technology to make government more accessible and efficient.

MIDTOWN — Using the frustrations fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests as her rallying cry, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a set of initiatives Tuesday aimed at boosting jobs by investing in technology.

The use of technology versus having an officer on the street seems to separate the candidates when it comes to fighting crime in the city of Syracuse.

The city of Syracuse is putting a technology called SQUID into use this month, which is meant to help city hall make smarter choices when it comes to fixing crumbling streets.

WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley recently visited The Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (BCAT) after school program where city high school students are using their creative talents to succeed.

WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley recently visited The Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (BCAT) after - school program where city high school students are using their creative talents to succeed.

«When we look at broadly the Special Victims Division, there are some cases, I believe, where we... could probably make some improvements on how we use technology going forward,» Shea said, speaking after the City Council's executive budget hearing on public safety.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses will spend less time tied up at intersections as the city expands the use of technology designed to give mass transit the green light.

The technology still remains in its trial stages and some cities have already moved to restrict the use of driver-less or automated cars.

Miner wants Syracuse to become a poster child for ways cities can use technology to create a healthy infrastructure.

«There's technology being used in cities in Japan, as well as in Boston, that are sensors that you can drop into water mains.

He said he wanted to look to the technology sector for inspiration on how to deliver city services to citizens in a user friendly way «in the palm of their hand» and use technology to bridge the disconnect between government and citizens, especially in light of low voter turnout..

Four leading candidates for New York City, who already are using technology to reach out to voters, recently outlined their technology policy priorities in interview sessions hosted by the New York Tech Meetup * at ThoughtWorks headquarters in late July, emphasizing the importance of education, accessibility, transparency, infrastructure, partnerships with the technology community and affordability.

Her Office of Innovation outlined new, inexpensive technology the city planned to use to manage its infrastructure.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas (along with the Buffalo Police and Erie County Sheriff's Department) are among scores of police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of...

Varun Adibhatla, developer of SQUID technology, and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, discussing the city's use of the device to measure road quality.

«We've had some graffiti problems in the city over the years, and I'm glad to see that we're using newer, modern technology to try to improve the quality of life for the residents of the City of Buffalo,» said Golomcity over the years, and I'm glad to see that we're using newer, modern technology to try to improve the quality of life for the residents of the City of Buffalo,» said GolomCity of Buffalo,» said Golombek.