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Automated license plate readers will help parking availability but some express concern about privacy issues

New parking meters with credit card payment options are part of the goBerkeley program. Photo: Steer Davies Gleave/goBerkeley Berkeley has launched a program to use a controversial technology that automatically reads license plates on cars to optimize and enforce parking, part of a larger effort to encourage more Berkeley residents not to drive. The program, […]

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Berkeley Lab opens gleaming supercomputer center

Berkeley Lab’s Wang Hall computer research facility, on a hillside overlooking the UC Berkeley campus, which officially opened on Nov. 12, 2015. Photo: Berkeley Lab, Roy Kaltschmidt Berkeley Lab’s Wang Hall computer research facility, on a hillside overlooking the UC Berkeley campus, which officially opened on Nov. 12, 2015. Photo: Berkeley Lab, Roy Kaltschmidt After more than […]