Last week, Peachtree Corners launched a fleet of the world’s first teleoperated e-scooters on public streets. The six-month pilot of the e-scooters reflects the city’s ongoing development of innovative transportation technologies that include a self-driving shuttle, which completed a pilot…
Claxton became the state’s first city to have an official Broadband Ready certification within a county – Evans County – that also earned the designation. It’s the first multi-jurisdictional broadband recognition from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA), which is…
Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its initial estimates of the number of homes and businesses in each state that could be helped by the proposed $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The fund targets areas that lack access…
According to Andrew Greenberg, executive director of the Georgia Game Developers Association, the video game industry here generates $830 million in economic impact on the state. More than 160 companies are now developing games and employing programmers, designers, artists and…
Micromobility – the use of small battery-powered vehicles like electric scooters and electric bicycles – is on the verge of revolutionizing transportation in cities like Atlanta. However, the trend has taken hold so quickly that local governments and the companies…
More than 300 venture capitalists and tech investors, 78 early-stage and startup companies and 1,100 attendees recently came together for the annual Venture Atlanta conference. Billed as the premier venture capital conference in the Southeast, the two-day event created opportunities…
Curiosity Lab, a co-working space and autonomous vehicle test track raised the green flag last week in a ribbon cutting ceremony in Peachtree Corners. The lab is the first intelligent mobility living laboratory designed specifically for companies seeking a real-world…
The school year is drawing to a close in Georgia, but students near Ocilla are working harder than ever – on their school buses. Google has teamed up with the Irwin County School District to pilot a Rolling Study Halls…
If you saw Maroon 5’s Super Bowl halftime performance, you saw a live drone light show courtesy of 150 Intel drones, which the corporation says set a world record for drones flown indoors. These days, it seems drones are everywhere,…
Conventional wisdom suggests that necessity is the mother of invention, and that certainly applies to Forsyth County high school student Akshat Gautam, who was a food allergy sufferer. When he was younger, finding foods that were safe for him to…
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