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Government Technology
Walking the showroom floor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, it was hard not to get excited about the future of consumer technology. From robots that can beat you in ping pong to phones with built-in projectors to a self-driving store on wheels, exhibitors showed off the manifold possibilities offered by emerging tech. How can cities take advantage of these advances?
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Houston-area officials said Monday during a congressional hearing that they weren't aware of forecasts by federal authorities regarding flooding risks from local reservoirs that ended up inundating thousands of homes during Hurricane Harvey.
However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said concerted efforts were made to ensure all information was shared with both local officials and the public.
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By Mashaal Hashmi
 When your business decides to connect its advertising to a celebrity or notable public persona, you always run the risk of what that person may say or do in the public eye. With social media and instant news, it becomes more difficult to hide blemishes — regardless of how great a publicist that celebrity may have. When controversy hits, the companies must then decide how to react. Advertisers for "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News found this out the hard way recently.
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Emergency Management
The emergency alert systems that blare out warnings during natural disasters, terrorist incidents or manmade calamities could be hijacked into sending out false alarms.
A security company, Bastille, said Tuesday that it had found a vulnerability in San Francisco’s emergency alert system that would allow hackers to trigger the city’s sirens or even blare out malicious messages.
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By D. Albert Brannen
 Technology and "big data" now make it possible for employers to monitor and record all aspects of what employees may do, say or write in the workplace. Employers have legitimate needs to monitor employees while at work, but the use of monitoring technologies is limited by a variety of federal, state and local laws and legal theories. Employers need to know about the range of these limits before taking any actions that may lead to litigation and employee issues.
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Route Fifty
The magnitude 5.3 earthquake that shook parts of Southern California on Thursday may have been the region’s strongest in many years but fortunately only caused minor damage close to its epicenter offshore near the Channel Islands. It also provided a good opportunity for an earthquake early-warning system that’s been under development to show how seismic alerts can be relayed to the public in the years to come.
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By Seth Sandronsky
 Employers added 103,000 new nonfarm jobs in March vs. 313,000 in February and 200,000 January, as the unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent for the sixth straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Job growth occurred in healthcare, manufacturing and mining. Six consecutive months of 4.1 percent joblessness spotlights strengthening of the labor market and the staying power of an economic expansion since the June 2009 end of the Great Recession.
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Homeland Security Today
City officials in Atlanta have continued to recover after the ransomware attack on municipal computer systems late last month that reportedly hit at least five out of 13 departments. This cyber attack knocked out numerous city services, kept residents from paying bills and limited some communication between departments. It even forced some departments, including units of the Atlanta Police Department, to revert to paper records.
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By Catherine Iste
 One common characteristic of good leaders is that they are always working on being better. Sometimes that involves indulging in a formal, off-site leadership program at a big-name school. Other times, it can be more reflective: taking the time to read and learn from a compelling book. Yet sometimes the demands of the business afford us less time to focus on our own growth. For those busy phases, here are three easy ways to continue to upgrade your leadership skills.
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Homeland Security News Wire
How well can you tell facts from fake on social media? How about in a crisis? DHS S&T, together with Canadian partners, concluded the fifth Canada-U.S. Enhanced Resiliency Experiment (CAUSE V) event last year, running drills involving the hypothetical eruption of Mt. Baker, an active volcano in the Pacific Northwest. As part of the simulation, a group of digital disaster services volunteers practiced separating fact from fiction on the web, with the mission of keeping responders informed during the event.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Woe the fate of the poor urban designer. Forced to wander the streets of our cities, painfully alive to all of the errors of our design history, the sort of things that most of us walk past with barely a glance. In this series of articles, we will be looking at a few of the things we have been getting badly wrong when designing our cities, and that we are now scrambling to rectify. That will mean throwing light on a series of often unglamorous details and the role they play in our environment.
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