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Solar Settlers: 1,000-mile American Solar Challenge Sets Off Along Santa Fe Trail

By | August 3, 2021 | 0
One of 13 solar-powered vehicles competing in the American Solar Challenge that begins Tuesday morning in Independence.

College students from around the world are competing in the American Solar Challenge, a design competition and car race from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, nearly 1,000 miles away.

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Citizen and Nextdoor Are Making Us All Vigilantes. Is That a Good Thing?

By | May 25, 2021 | 0
Illustration of someone looking out of a window with binoculars.

Public safety apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen are creating a new kind of surveillance culture, absent of context.

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Missourians Losing Big When it Comes to Cyber Crime

By | May 20, 2021 | 0
A person entering credit card information via a laptop computer.

Cyber crime is surging, and Missouri suffered the largest average loss in the country during 2020.

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It Takes A Village to Reach Rural Broadband Fringe

By | May 6, 2021 | 0
A grain elevator in Turney, Missouri, looms large over the small community. An elevator in neighboring Stewartsville will be the location of the intelligent router sending broadband signals to the village.

U.S. Ignite broadband experiment finds a host in a tiny Missouri village.

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Internet ‘Last Mile’ Experiment Coming to Clinton County

By | April 13, 2021 | 0
Elon Musk’s Starlink internet uses satellites in space to beam wireless internet connections to Earth.

New internet technology is being tested in rural Missouri to reach across the last mile.

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