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Pittsburgh is an age-in-place case study | Allegheny County — which is home to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — has an older population. Nearly 20% of its 1.2 million residents are at or over the age of 65, according to the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Social & Ur... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Aug 22, 2022 | Why Pittsburgh’s Meta Mesh Wireless Communities picked this for its new name | Meta Mesh Wireless Communities has seen its share of changes in just a few months, from new leadership to an infusion of grant dollars. Now, it’s getting a new name to go with an expanded approach to bringing the internet to underserved com... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Parking software startup Meter Feeder raised $2.6M in a seed round extension | One of Pittsburgh’s best-known startups just put a couple million in its meter.
Meter Feeder, a parking payment software startup, announced that it had raised $2.6 million in a seed round extension. It’s the latest public funding update fro... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | This new citizen-developed app tracks bridge condition ratings in Pittsburgh | After the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge, are you wondering what other Pittsburgh bridges might be in dire shape? Rainy Sinclair built an app for that.
The local senior software engineer set out to map all of the deteriorating bridges i... |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Pittsburgh is among US metros with the lowest rate of Black-owned businesses | Pittsburgh just earned a new ranking for business ownership. It’s not one the region should be proud of.
Earlier this month, online lending marketplace LendingTree published a new study on places with the most Black-owned businesses in the ... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Mach9 Robotics’ new Pittsburgh Bridge Initiative aims to triage infrastructure repair | A fast-growing Pittsburgh tech startup wants to help the city solve its infrastructure problems. As residents know, it’s a mission that couldn’t be fulfilled sooner.
Founded in 2021, Bloomfield-based startup Mach9 Robotics launched a new ef... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Biden’s visit further marked Hazelwood Green as a symbol of what Pittsburgh wants its economic future to be | In a twist of classic Pittsburgh irony last week, one of the city’s major bridges collapsed last week on the morning of President Joe Biden’s visit to discuss the future of infrastructure, supply chain systems and advanced manufacturing in ... |
| Nov 16, 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... |
| Nov 14, 2021 | 140,000 kids had a parent or caregiver die from COVID. If we don’t help them, America is going to end up with a lost generation. | 140,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 crisis.
Ignoring this and returning society to normal won’t help these kids.
Addressing the mental and physical health of these children will require real investments.
Abd... |
| Nov 3, 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... |
| Oct 7, 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... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | Ed Gainey’s pitch to Pittsburgh tech ahead of the mayoral election | A landmark election for Pittsburgh’s mayor is only four weeks away. So, Technical.ly got on the phone with Democratic nominee State Rep. Ed Gainey to talk about his plan for the tech industry.
Gainey won a dramatic primary race in May when ... |
| Sep 9, 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... |
| Aug 8, 2021 | If Congress Can’t Clean Public Water Systems, The Trial Lawyers Will | PARKERSBURG, WV- OCTOBER, 28: The Washington Works DuPont plant in Parkersburg, WV on October 28, ... [+] 2015. (Photo by Maddie McGarvey/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)The Washington Post via Getty Images |
| Jul 22, 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... |
| Jul 15, 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... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | A CMU grant will spur robotics innovation in Hazelwood. Community leaders want to ensure residents benefit, too | The Pittsburgh tech scene has seen growth from startups to big companies like Google and Facebook over the past few decades. Now, a new influx of money could launch further growth after the pandemic by connecting local academic prowess with... |
| May 19, 2021 | Ending the pandemic can’t happen without ending evictions, which needlessly increase infections | Americans protested a wave of evictions and foreclosures at the end of last year as protections aiding people who couldn’t afford rent or mortgage payments was close to expiring. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
The CDC eviction moratorium... |
| May 18, 2021 | Time Magazine Lauds Clearview AI Despite Its Sketchy Facial Recognition Tech | Time Magazine released its inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential Companies, featuring an array of large and small corporations that “are helping to chart an essential path forward.” Disturbingly, among its choices of “disruptors” is Cl... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Working for the Weeknd | 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... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Detroit Extends Contract of Facial Recognition Program That Doesn’t Work | Detroit City Council voted 6-3 on Tuesday to extend the city's police department facial recognition contract, despite its near 100 percent misidentification rate and almost exclusive use on Black citizens.
The measure approves a two-year co... |
| May 13, 2020 | Pittsburgh has long been a life sciences engine. Now it’s at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine efforts | If Dr. Louis Falo and his team at the University of Pittsburgh are successful, the same medical school that produced the vaccine that ended polio could produce the vaccine that ends COVID-19.
“It’s great to be in this environment, with this... |
| May 26, 2019 | Responding to the Rise in Domestic Terrorism: Don’t Forget Prevention | Editor’s Note: Programs to counter violent extremism often are well-meaning but misconceived and poorly resourced. As a result, for jihadist-linked terrorism they usually prove ineffective and are a policy afterthought rather than a key cou... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | How Pittsburgh changed after a 2016 cybersecurity report said it wasn’t prepared for an attack | Editor’s note: On Monday, July 16, PublicSource published its first investigative piece on civic tech in Pittsburgh as part of its involvement with Open Data PGH. Below is the introduction to that story. For further reading, check out Publi... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Curious about Pittsburgh’s tech scene? This newsletter is for you | Editor’s note: Every week, Technical.ly publishes a weekly email newsletter on Pittsburgh’s civic tech community as part of our new Open Data PGH series. Below is this week’s edition. Sign up for the newsletter by clicking here. Thanks!This... |
| Jun 6, 2018 | Meet Open Data PGH, Technical.ly’s new reporting series on civic tech in Pittsburgh | Six weeks ago, Technical.ly started publishing Open Data PGH, a joint reporting project with nonprofit news site PublicSource on open data trends in Pittsburgh.
Now that we’re in the groove of things, we think it’s time Philly sees what we’... |
| Voter fatigue takes center stage in Pennsylvania as Mehmet Oz tries to woo the MAGA base and Trump looms large | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Pennsylvania's primaries are a week away on May 17, and voters are already exhausted.
Republicans, Democrats, and independents told Insider that they feel burned out by all of the ads.
Trump end... |
| 140,000 kids had a parent or caregiver die from COVID. If we don't help them, America is going to end up with a lost generation. | RichVintage/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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