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With 13 active data center projects across Missouri, residents are questioning energy and water use as developers also eye Southeast Missouri land.

Mounted beside key traffic hotspots in Cape Girardeau, Flock Safety’s license plate reader cameras (ALPRs) use artificial intelligence (AI) to capture point-in-time images of vehicles and convert them into searchable information, including license plate numbers, vehicle characteristics, date, time and camera location. This gives law enforcement officials a digital trail across town.

As AI continues to evolve, each of the five colleges at SEMO has had to adapt to new technology entering the lives of their students and faculty.

A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing.

Southeast Missouri State University released a news statement announcing a partnership with the University of Science and Technology, aiming to make the path for Southeast Missouri engineering students a little closer to home

Supporters of the proposed legislation cited mounting evidence that social media and chatbots can harm kids’ mental health. The discussion plays out against a backdrop of First Amendment challenges to similar laws in other states

Illinois continues to be a hotspot for data center construction. According to Datacenters.com, affordable real estate and reliable power supply have made the state an attractive choice for data center development – although those factors don't always sit well with some residents of rural communities.

Canvas and other major platforms are back online after a 16-hour AWS outage that disrupted universities, businesses, and airlines worldwide.

The use of technology integration in classrooms is growing throughout the world. At Southeast, many instructors use Apple products such as Macbooks or iPads in their curriculum. AR480 Introduction to Virtual Reality (VR) at SEMO is teaching students to create their own VR environments. VR instructor Jeremy Griffin picked up the course when the university sent out an email for professors who were interested in teaching AR480.

The Codefi Foundation on Rural Innovation, Inc. (Codefi) and efactory in Springfield, Missouri are now partners, forming the Southern Missouri Innovation Network or 'Innovate SOMO'—the first-of-its-kind regional network. Together, the organization plans to accelerate workforce and economic development in 47 counties across Southern Missouri.