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A military man on an international assignment or a medical doctor on an important overseas mission are just some of the identities scammers have used. But in recent years, it might be someone posing as a regular person stuck at home during a pandemic lockdown. But there are commons threads: the scam artists never meet …

A Georgia Amber Alert has been issued for 1-year-old Cali McClean after she was allegedly abducted from South Fulton near Atlanta, local officials say. Anyone with information is urged to call 911 immediately. The incident happened on Wednesday when Cali was allegedly taken from the South Fulton area, according to the amber alert. Specific details …

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) announces the full agenda for Fintech South, the southeast’s largest event dedicated to financial innovation. The virtual conference, taking place June 22 – 24, will feature more than 40 hours of interactive content from over 300 speakers across its main stage keynotes, roundtables and eight deep dive tracks – …

NXT Communications Corp., a Ball Ground-based antenna manufacturer, was named Innovation Company of the Year – Startup by the Technology Association of Georgia. NXTCOMM CEO David Horton accepted the award during a live-streamed Technology Awards ceremony Wednesday during the Georgia Technology Summit. “On behalf of the entire NXT Communications Corp. team, we appreciate this award …

ARCTIC is used to support research analysis, modeling, simulation and used to help make research-based predictions on phenomena.  Additionally, ARCTIC analyzes cyberinfrastructure, in which the system includes high-performance computing clusters, data storage systems, research networking, and cloud computing.   The National Science Foundation developed ARCTIC using a $1.2 million grant. GSU said more than 300 …

Since the Chattanooga law firm Warren & Griffin is an almost paperless office, the technology was in place to work from anywhere when the coronavirus pandemic struck, company officials say. The firm allowed its support staff to work from home if they wanted. While some support staff preferred to work in the office setting, Warren …

Image Credit/Source: NASA On the morning of April 23, NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough launched aboard the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International space station. Georgia Background Kimbrough graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta in 1985. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, …

College degrees traditionally require students to spend at least some time in a classroom, but Georgia Gwinnett College is trying something different. The Lawrenceville-based school announced this past week that it will begin offering its first “fully online” degree, which will be available for information technology-software development majors. The school already offered an IT major …

A Georgia lawmaker is proposing that his state align its voting laws with New York and Delaware’s more restrictive regulations, an admitted “political stunt” designed to rebuke criticism from President Biden, who has lived in Delaware and served as one of its senators, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. In a Facebook post Monday, Republican state Rep. Wes Cantrell wrote …

Major League Baseball is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s controversial new voting law, the league announced Friday.  “I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said …