“A cryptocurrency company that owns 67,000 acres in rural northern Nevada wants state government to grant technology companies power to form local governments on land they own,” reports the Associated Press. Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Nevada-based Blockchains LLC, ultimately envisions “a city where people not only purchase goods and services with digital currency but also log their entire online footprint —…
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San Diego’s Police Are Using Video from ‘Smart’ Streetlights
Slashdot reader Tekla Perry is also senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, and brings a story about San Diego’s 3,300 “smart streetlights,” each one equipped with “an Intel Atom processor, half a terabyte of storage, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios, two 1080p video cameras, two acoustical sensors, and environmental sensors that monitor temperature, pressure, humidity, vibration, and magnetic fields.” San Diego’s smart streetlights…
Sidewalk Labs Plans To Spin Out More Smart City Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs plans to spin out some of its smart city ideas into separate companies, CEO Daniel Doctoroff said today at Collision from Home conference. Doctoroff listed three potential companies: mass timber construction, affordable electrification sans fossil fuels, and planning tools optimized with machine learning and computation design. Last month, Sidewalk Labs…