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| 11.06.2024 | SOLLUM TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERS WITH LEAFICIENT TO OPTIMIZE AGRICULTURAL LIGHTING THROUGH ADVANCED DATA INTEGRATION | DETAILED LEAF-LEVEL DATA ENABLES PRECISION LIGHTING PROFILES
MONTRÉAL, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Sollum Technologies, the pioneer behind the only 100% full programmable dynamic lighting solution, proudly announces a strategic partnership... |
| 02.06.2024 | 2 dead, 7 injured after shooting at a bar in Pittsburgh, say police | - |
| 16.05.2024 | Four takeaways from our investigation into police agencies selling their guns | About nine times a day over two decades, a gun used in a crime has been traced back to its original owner: a law enforcement agency.
A joint investigation by CBS News, The Trace, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has fo... |
| 14.05.2024 | Biden administration announces new tariffs on Chinese EVs, semiconductors, solar cells and more | President Biden announced new tariffs Tuesday on Chinese EVs, semiconductors, batteries, solar cells, steel and aluminum. The tariffs on EVs will rise to 100%, quadrupling the current tariff of 25%.
Mr. Biden is directing the tariff on sola... |
| 19.04.2024 |
Pennsylvania home sales surge in March | Even though the spring homebuying season got off to a slow start across much of the U.S., one of the most populous states saw increased activity.
Home sales in Pennsylvania jumped 23.6% from February to March, according to a report released... |
| 17.03.2024 | Men’s basketball notes: Tad Boyle reviews CU Buffs’ tournament outlook | LAS VEGAS — It won’t be a long wait. About 18 hours, give or take, between the time the Pac-12 title hopes were dashed for Colorado and the start of the NCAA Tournament selection show.
Still, it probably will be an uncertain Sunday morning ... |
| 18.01.2023 | Sen. Fontana Announces Over $700,000 for Outdoor Spaces in Allegheny County | Allegheny County – January 18, 2023 – Today, Pennsylvania State Senator Wayne Fontana announced $782,853 in state grants for outdoor and recreation spaces in Allegheny County. Grants were awarded to the Allegheny Land Trust and City of Pitt... |
| 10.01.2023 | Meet the 7 startups that make up PGH Lab’s eighth cohort | The City of Pittsburgh has chosen a new PGH Lab cohort to go with the new year.
When Technical.ly spoke with Director of Innovation & Performance Director Heidi Norman at the end of 2022, she shared that in the new year, the department ... |
| 11.10.2022 | How To Apply to Take Part in LA's 'Universal Basic Mobility' Pilot | L.A. Metro is launching the largest experiment in the U.S. to provide 2,000 residents with a seamless transportation payment platform spanning public and private systems.
The agency is opening up applications for its mobility wallet as part... |
| 26.08.2022 | Despite a pandemic and opioid crisis, America's lack of bereavement leave is still causing a grief crisis
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Giving employees the mourni... | The coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of over 901,000 Americans. gruizza/Getty Images
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In the US, there is no law giving workers paid time off to attend a loved one's funeral.
Most US workers receive only three days to gr... |
| 15.06.2022 | Why Allegheny Conference is calling for Pittsburgh orgs across sectors to adopt these ‘inclusive growth principles’ | What does a unified, sustainable framework for promoting racial and economic equity in a city look like?
In a bid to find out, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development just published a set of Inclusive Growth Principles to promote ... |
| 17.04.2022 | 2 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at Pittsburgh party, police say | Pittsburgh — Two people are dead and several more people are injured after a shooting in Pittsburgh early Sunday morning, police said.
Pittsburgh police said in a news release that the shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. during a party at... |
| 07.04.2022 | Honeycomb Credit and Sustainible IO want to grow more Pittsburgh startups | Two Pittsburgh startups just formed a partnership to help others grow.
Honeycomb Credit and Sustainible IO announced this week that they would work together to bring business assessment tools to more startups and small businesses in southwe... |
| 07.02.2022 | On the Market: A civic tech department, cryptocurrency firm and startup accelerator are all hiring in Pittsburgh | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings. Have a submission? Email us at pittburgh@technical.ly.Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance is hiring a senior project coordinator
The City o... |
| 05.01.2022 | These 7 startups make up the first PGH Lab cohort of 2022 | With the inauguration of a new mayor comes the continuation of a City of Pittsburgh-sponsored accelerator that started under the previous one.
A few days before Mayor Ed Gainey’s swearing in ceremony, PGH Lab announced a new cohort of start... |
| 16.12.2021 | 33 basic and guaranteed income programs where cities and states give direct payments to residents, no strings attached | Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, talks with Michael Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, after holding his annual State of the City address from the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles. Gary Coronado
Guaranteed income p... |
| 14.12.2021 | Check out Dashburgh, the Peduto administration’s latest (and likely last) open data effort | As Mayor Bill Peduto prepares to end his eight-year tenure in January, his office announced a new initiative in open data and government transparency with the aim that it will continue under new Mayor-Elect Ed Gainey’s term.
Dashburgh, a da... |
| 24.11.2021 | Allegheny Health Network Urban Health & Street Medicine, City of Pittsburgh Office of Community Health & Safety Partner to Open Three Community Outreach Hubs | AHN Urban Health & Street Medicine team cuts ribbon to Community Outreach Hub in downtown Pittsburgh. "Demonstrating the role that a health care system can play in community empowerment and linkage to care, the community outreach h... |
| 24.11.2021 | Pittsburgh Mayor-elect Ed Gainey to place controversial Mon-Oakland Connector project under review | For more than five years, a controversial private transit project to connect Pittsburgh’s major universities in Oakland with a nearby, nearly-200-acre development site has been in limbo as opponents and supporters debate who it will benefit... |
| 16.11.2021 | Rec2Tech, EVs are top tech priorities in Peduto’s final budget | Mayor Bill Peduto‘s final budget calls for new spending on tech workforce development and industry partnerships to grow the number of electric vehicles in the city’s fleet. But concrete programs supporting startups and early-stage innovatio... |
| 03.11.2021 | Ed Gainey won a historic mayoral election. Here’s what Pittsburgh tech wants to see from his administration | After a historic campaign and primary win last spring, State Rep. Ed Gainey will officially be Pittsburgh’s next mayor.
Late last night, after a majority of ballots had been counted, Gainey gave a victory speech at the Benedum Center, where... |
| 07.10.2021 | Mayoral candidate Tony Moreno wants better infrastructure and government transparency. Here’s how his platform applies to the tech industry | A primary Democrat turned general election Republican candidate is State Rep. Ed Gainey’s biggest challenger for Pittsburgh.
Retired police officer Tony Moreno came in third place behind Gainey and incumbent Mayor Bill Peduto in May’s prima... |
| 06.10.2021 | Why city gov-backed startup incubator PGH Lab signifies an openness to innovation | Calling all startups for a chance to run a pilot program with the City of Pittsburgh.
Applications recently opened for the seventh cohort of PGH Lab, a government incubator program that gives local startups the chance to test new products a... |
| 01.10.2021 | Diversity in tech requires a diverse tech pipeline. Pittsburgh youth programs are filling opportunity gaps | Molly Urbina did not want to join Girls of Steel.
“I was very opposed,” she said about the youth robotics team, which her mom had suggested she join back in 2012. “I was like, I don’t want to go to this. I’m not gonna do robotics.”
But she ... |
| 27.09.2021 | Events Roundup: Don’t miss these chances at Pittsburgh tech networking this October | Events Roundup is a Technical.ly column where we highlight events happening in the Pittsburgh area each month. Got a submission? Email us the details at pittsburgh@technical.ly so we can consider it for our next roundup.Tech community event... |
| 09.09.2021 | Who makes $200K? | In lots of ways, Austin, Texas is in an enviable position.
The boomtown’s population nearly doubled between 1990 and 2020. For nearly 40 years between 1980 and 2020, the Austin metro area grew by more than 4% a year. Economic development ex... |
| 09.09.2021 | Who makes $200K in Pittsburgh? Tech careers, race and economic mobility | Jim Gibbs understands the power of network effect — and its limits.
A former Carnegie Mellon University student and Pittsburgh-based software developer for more than three decades, Gibbs has been growing his startup, Meter Feeder, since 201... |
| 22.07.2021 | Mobility as a Service: Move PGH puts Pittsburgh at the forefront of transportation innovation | Pittsburgh will soon be a national leader in mobility tech.
Earlier this month, the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure launched a two-year initiative called Move PGH, a comprehensive program convening private and... |
| 15.07.2021 | Mayoral candidate Ed Gainey is running on a platform of equitable livability for Pittsburgh. Here’s how he plans to do that with the tech industry | Pittsburgh will have an entirely new set of names on the ballot this November.
In May, State Rep. Ed Gainey defeated two-term Mayor Bill Peduto, a long-time tech cheerleader for the city who helped launch the recent advancement of autonomou... |
| 21.06.2021 | With a new mayor on the way, Pittsburgh faces up to inequity in tech | Pennsylvania State Rep. Ed Gainey has witnessed Pittsburgh’s tech boom firsthand, including those it has lifted, and those who remain left behind.
Gainey, a Democrat, in May became the first challenger to unseat an incumbent mayor in a City... |
| 22.03.2021 | Transphobia, hostility about protesters in private cop group | PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, whom ... |
| 27.02.2021 | Managing Childcare: The Power Of Family-Friendly And Inclusive Cities | Cities that provide childcare support enable parents to stay in the labor force. Moreover, childcare ... [+] support allows citizens to more actively participate in civic discourse, including in volunteer activities. getty |
| 25.01.2021 | Ted Cruz’s ‘Pittsburgh over Paris’ campaign shows us just how dumb the Biden years are going to be | In response to Biden re-entering the US into the Paris climate agreement, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has launched a “Pittsburgh over Paris” campaign.
Cruz says that Biden rejoining the Paris agreement will cost the citizens of Pittsburgh jobs, but t... |
| 14.12.2020 | Pittsburgh doesn’t know how to leverage its Black tech talent. Could startup growth fix that? | For Deonna Johnson, getting behind on the IT tickets that her workplace expected her to complete not only cost her a job, but propelled her to leave Pittsburgh’s tech industry altogether.
The 34-year-old cloud security engineer said the tro... |
| 26.08.2020 | How the growth of tech and energy are shaping Pittsburgh’s workforce | Pittsburgh is a city of old and new — a growing industry of technology amidst a backdrop of steel and history of energy innovation.
Tech and energy may have little in common at first glance, but what the two lack in similarities, they make ... |
| 22.06.2020 | SDG Leadership Cities Third Convening: Toward recovery from COVID-19 through the perspective of SDGs | The Office of the City of Yokohama Rep. to the Americas participated as the representative of Yokohama city in the third convening of the SDG Leadership Cities Network hosted for the first time virtually by Brookings Institution from June 1... |
| 18.06.2020 | This Week in Jobs: Drive-in to summer | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 19.03.2020 | Coronavirus Cancellation Tracker: More Than 83 Million Affected After Events Cancelled Or Rescheduled | Last updated April 22, 12:49 p.m. |
| 24.10.2019 | Swiftmile will become the ‘gas station’ for electric bikes and scooters in Austin | Anyone who has tried to ride an electric scooter knows the likelihood of finding one with a charged battery is quite low. Swiftmile, which just landed a contract with the city of Austin, supplies cities and private operators with docks equi... |
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| 26.04.2019 | 5 companies are testing 55 self-driving cars in Pittsburgh | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In early March, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto signed an executive order mandating that firms testing self-driving vehicles submit mat... |
| 02.10.2018 | 5 ways Pittsburgh’s public servants are using human-centered design | From the products and services we use to the communities we live in, design helps determine what it’s like to be human, to be you.
The paper application you filled out; the street you crossed; the alarm clock you set to wake you; the websit... |
| 01.08.2018 | Why Pittsburgh’s Innovation and Performance team takes an open-source approach to open data | Picture it: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 2015.
It was the birth of what would be named the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (also known as the WPRDC, also known as “Whopper Duck”), an all-star collaboration between the City of... |
| 28.06.2017 | Introducing Heartland Tech Weekly: I want YOU to create tech jobs | VentureBeat’s Heartland Tech Channel tracks the most important news and analysis about the technological and economic divide between Silicon Valley and the rest of America. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in a free new... |
| 28.06.2017 | Introducing Heartland Tech Weekly: I want YOU to create tech jobs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
VentureBeat’s Heartland Tech Channel tracks the m... |
| 10.05.2017 | As tech startups surge in cities, inclusive economic growth must be a priority | Brooks Rainwater Contributor
Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities.
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| - | #Boycotttwitch Trends On Twitter After A Streamer Broke Her Back At TwitchCon | Over the weekend, a Twitch streamer jumped off a pedestal into a pit of foam blocks. The result? A broken back and calls to boycott the live streaming platform.
Adriana Chechik broke her back in two places while at TwitchCon, an annual conv... |
| - | 33 basic and guaranteed income programs where cities and states give direct payments to residents, no strings attached | Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, talks with Michael Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, after holding his annual State of the City address from the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles. Gary Coronado
Guaranteed income p... |
| - | Workers in these cities will get bereavement leave for pregnancy loss, including abortions | Portland, Oregon, is the latest city to provide bereavement leave for people experiencing pregnancy loss, including abortions.
The city’s amended bereavement leave policy allows city employees to take up to three days of paid leave if they’... |
| - | 4 steps to take if you can't pay the rent and where to get rental assistance in every state | After speaking with your landlord, you can explore organizations that may be able to offer emergency aid for housing or rent expenses if you meet a series of qualification. AndreyPopov/Getty
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| - | 'How Much Will It Stifle Innovation?' and Other Questions About Biden's Proposed AI Bill | Last week, the Biden administration released a blueprint for a proposed Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. The bill included guidance on how to protect consumers’ data, how to limit discrimination by algorithms and human alternatives t... |
| - | 2 minors dead after mass shooting at Pittsburgh Airbnb party | Two minors were killed early Sunday after shots were fired at a large party hosted at an Airbnb rental in Pittsburgh, according to the city’s police blotter.
At least eight others were being treated for gunshot wounds. A police release init... |
