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The City of Pittsburgh doesn't want to talk about its cybersecurity. Its top tech official is staying tight-lipped, saying the stakes are too high to say much publicly.
With numerous warnings of the financial, public safety and privacy threats that hackers pose to local governments, Pittsburgh officials purposefully give residents little insight on the city’s security flaws.
Except Pittsburgh spilled its own secrets.
The region lags in harvesting renewable solar energy, but several forces in Western Pennsylvania are trying to change that.
Heroin crisis After a statewide tour and a trip to the White House, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is turning to social media to address the state’s growing opioid crisis.
Politics Pittsburgh is getting nearly $300,000 to fix an intersection because of drivers running red lights in Philadelphia.
If you’re trying to apply for jobs, run a business or even complete schoolwork, it’s likely you’ll need access to the Internet to accomplish any of those basic tasks.
However, families in poor areas of the country were nearly five times more likely than rich families to not have access to high-speed Internet, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.
Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft are closer to being formally regulated in Pennsylvania after Senate Bill 984 was approved 23-2 by the House Consumer Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
The city of Pittsburgh wants to tap into the talent and ideas brewing within local startups.
Even as Pittsburgh bursts with technological innovation, John Bares, of Uber, said university graduates aren’t sticking around and the city needs to move faster to compete with the West Coast.
Within the next 10 years, will drone technology be dominated by social media leader Facebook? That’s what the tech giant has set for the future.
