HOUGHTON - Small drones have also proven to be effective tools of mischief, and not just in the national news - from spying to smuggling to hacking. So when Mo Rastgaar was watching World Cup soccer and heard about snipers protecting the crowd, he doubted that they’d fully understood a drone’s potential. “I thought, ‘If
SOUTHFIELD – The Engineering Society of Detroit is still seeking a few judges for its Future City competition for middle school students, coming up Jan. 25 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. ESD also is seeking judges for the E-Challenge III competition, sponsored by DTE Energy, which seeks to fund advanced demonstration projects in
LAS VEGAS - TomTom, the Netherlands-based navigation device developer, said Tuesday it had launched “Highly Automated Driving” map products for all interstate roads in California and all interstates and freeways in Michigan. The company, in an announcement at CES 2016, said the products are intended to provide easier testing for autonomous vehicles in two states
LAS VEGAS - Ford Motor Co. will show off an expanded Sync connectivity system at CES, formerly known as the International Consumer Electronics Show, being held Jan. 6-9 in Las Vegas, Nev. “Sync allows customers to bring the smartphone technology they’re comfortable with into a vehicle and use it without hassle,” said Don Butler, Ford
LANSING - Four Lansing-area business incubators will receive $5,000 each from the New Economy Division of the Lansing Economic Area Partnership after they responded to a request for proposals earlier this year. The awarded incubators are: The Allen Neighborhood Center, an agriculture-based incubator on the east side of Lansing. The Technology Innovation Center, a tech
SOUTHFIELD - Desktop support jobs are most in demand, a new survey shows, followed by database management, network and windows administration skills. The report comes from the temporary tech staffing firm Robert Half Technology, which added in a press release that hiring challenges remain as IT operations move into 2016. A survey of CIOs and
DETROIT - The Michigan Science Center is kicking off a new project to interest girls in STEM careers. Called the STEMinista Project, the goal is to collect 150 profiles of women working in STEM careers, in STEM research, education and entrepreneurship or who have STEM degrees, to use as role models for the girls who
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. announced several technology initiatives this week, including road tests of a fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid and an effort with the girls’ computer science organization Girls Who Code. Ford said its autonomous cars would take to the California roads next year under the leadership of its Palo Alto, Calif. Research
DETROIT - Twenty percent of surveyed Detroit-area technology executives plan to expand their IT teams in the first half of 2016, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report. That’s down a bit from 23 percent in the previous six months, covering July to December 2015, but up from
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security announced this week that is has opened an office in London as part of an expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leading operations for the region will be is Henry Seddon, who has been named vice president of the EMEA region. Seddon brings a wealth of industry experience
