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Self-Driving Taxis Could Be a Setback for Those with Different Needs – Unless Companies Embrace Accessible Design Now
If done right, autonomous vehicles could improve access to transportation for everyone.
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Pandemic Reveals Need to Make Airwaves More Resilient
The spectrum's sweet spot—frequencies in the mid-range—can carry significant amounts of data while reaching many users but are reserved for the government.
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Virtual Reality Has Been Boosted by Coronavirus – Here's How to Avoid It Leading Us to Dystopia
There appears to have been a significant rise in VR offerings this year, aiming to deliver safe, accessible experiences during the pandemic.
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How Agencies Can Fight COVID-19 Backlogs With Customer Experience
Customer experience doesn't stop because of coronavirus.
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The Death of the Open-Plan Office? Not Quite, but a Revolution is in the Air
The open-plan office will have to evolve, though, finding its true purpose as a collaborative work space augmented by remote work.
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Back Pain: 4 Ways to Fix Bad Lockdown Posture – By Copying Astronauts
Common poor desk posture is actually very similar to the posture astronauts adopt during spaceflight in zero-gravity.
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Domestic Abusers Use Tech that Connects as a Weapon During Coronavirus Lockdowns
Left unchecked, violence against women and girls can increase in frequency and severity and damage victims’ physical and mental health. I
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3 Reasons to Double Up on Emerging Technology Training During Crises
Today’s opportunity to skill-up will be gone tomorrow.
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Algorithms Are Designing Better Buildings
Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct the buildings and even change them over time to meet users’ needs.
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Rural America Is More Vulnerable to COVID-19 than Cities Are, and It's Starting to Show
Of the top 25 COVID-19 hot spots that popped up in the last two weeks, 18 were in non-metropolitan counties.
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Sloth Robot Is a Very Cute Way to Boost Conservation
The new high-tech tool could help save some of the world’s most endangered species.
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Pandemic, Privacy Rules Add to Worries over 2020 Census Accuracy
People who work with statistics know that there needs to be “good data in” in order to get “good data out.”
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How to Protect Your Home Office From Thor’s Mighty Hammer
Is your home office ready for when lightning strikes?
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'Telepresence' Can Help Bring Advanced Courses to Schools that Don't Offer Them
Using telepresence enables schools to offer students advanced courses they wouldn’t otherwise be able to take.
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‘Gov Clouds’ During COVID-19: The End of the Digital Fortress Era
Simply put, many U.S. government agencies are running on less reliable, less feature-rich, fortressed versions of commercial clouds.
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Preparing for the Coming Quantum World (Pragmatically)
Waiting around for quantum tech to mature could mean organizational change occurs too late.
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3 Ways Agencies Can Improve Cloud Security and Performance
It’s imperative agencies ensure their websites and hosted applications are secure and working at the expected performance levels.
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Bringing Lessons from Remote Work Back to the Office
A lot of people aren't going to want to return to their pre-pandemic commuter lives—and many won’t. Organizations will have to adjust.
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Chatbots: The New Government Official in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Even though there’s a deluge of questions from thousands of people, many of these questions are the same.
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