Civil Beat Staff
Evan Nagle
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Civil Bytes: A Haole Stuck in Traffic
If there’s nothing to add to the Thirty Meter Telescope debate, how about some heavy thinking about fitting in — or not — in the islands?
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Civil Bytes: When Google Calls, Nerds Like Me Answer
I didn’t really want to move to California. Yet there I was, airline condiments in hand, winging my way east toward a date with techie destiny.
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Civil Bytes: With 3D Scanning, There’s No Place to Hide
From uncovering history to protecting the president, applications abound for laser technology, and Mid-Pacific students in Honolulu are catching the wave.
Civil Bytes: H1 and Rail Inspire Visions of a Driverless Future
Technology will bring out the best in transit when we finally pry the hands of the masses off their steering wheels and leave the driving to computers.
State of Hawaii
Civil Bytes: A Journey Into the Basement With Hawaii Tech Chief Keone Kali
The chief information officer talks about the precarious state of information locked in outdated equipment in the bowels of downtown Honolulu.
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Civil Bytes: Our New Governor Should Upgrade State’s Sorry Technology
While fears grow about the feds tracking us too keenly, we should be equally wary of the state’s near-inability to track us at all.
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Civil Bytes: Will Write Code for Food
Hawaii’s first developer boot camp is helping blossoming techies find jobs in a growing field.
Twitter
Civil Bytes: WTF, Internet? Pursuing Truth in the Digital Age
The power and the danger of the Internet rests in its vast flexibility. It can be used for good, and it can be used for the not-so-good.
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Civil Bytes: Concerns Remain About the Future of Hawaii’s Tech Industry
Hawaii’s tech community has been buzzing for weeks about the questionable funneling of public money into two tech startups.