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This Florida company’s imaging tool helps speed up natural disaster recovery efforts

Fast Company Tech

Last fall, Urban SDK , a Jacksonville, Florida-based software company that aggregates traffic data to help public works departments spot problems more easily, launched HALO—a new service that quickly highlights the most pressing problem areas after a storm passes. Right now, HALO is a tool that is hurricane-specific.

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AT&T's C-Band 5G rollout gets going in eight metro areas

TechSpot

Worth, Detroit, Jacksonville, Houston, Orlando and parts of South Florida should soon have access to AT&T’s new 5G+ service. Customers in Austin, Chicago, Dallas Ft.

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Bookshare Creates Opportunities For Gifted Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He says Bookshare books also contain fewer errors that require time consuming correction from his school’s student services department. Steffon points out that Braille books are still difficult for blind people to acquire and he wants more readers to know about the Bookshare service.

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TuSimple is laying the groundwork for a coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network

The Verge

The company announced it will be working with UPS, Xpress Enterprises, Penske Trucking, and Berkshire Hathaway-owned grocery and food-service distributor McLane to lay the foundation for a coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network. coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network.

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Using Data and Social Media for Social Justice Outcomes: TIG 2013 Keynote

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m in Jacksonville, Florida today to open the plenary session of the Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant Annual gathering. In today’s complicated and networked world, legal services organizations need to adapt and improve their programs and fine tune their networks at a much faster pace than ever before.

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Kodiak Robotics pilots autonomous trucking between California, Texas and Florida

TechCrunch

The pilot marks the first time Kodiak has run an autonomous freight service to Florida. The freight run included four commercial deliveries on a 5,600 mile round-trip that started in San Antonio and went to San Francisco and then Jacksonville before going back to San Antonio. In total, the trip took 114 hours.

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Airbnb is helping find renters an apartment so they can Airbnb it

TechCrunch

It allows renters to find an apartment in more than 25 markets — including Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Sacramento and Tampa — where they can Airbnb a spare room, or the whole apartment while they’re away.