SEATTLE - Amazon on Tuesday revealed its newest device, the Echo Show, its first smart speaker with a built-in touchscreen. The new device was announced just weeks after Amazon presented the Echo Look, its first Echo with a built-in camera. While Echo devices have been all about using your voice so far, this new gadget
PHILADELPHIA – Comcast has launched Xfinity xFi, a personalized Wi-Fi experience that provides a simple digital dashboard for customers to set up their home Wi-Fi network, find their password, see what devices are connected, troubleshoot issues, set parental controls and even pause Wi-Fi access on their home network during dinner or bedtime. The xFi experience
GRANDVILLE - Managed Service Provider Trivalent Group has hired three new employees and promoted another. Those appointments include: Aaron Darland has been appointed Account Manager for Trivalent’s Mid-Michigan Branch currently located in Mt. Pleasant. Aaron previously served as Trivalent’s Team Lead for Inside Sales and has been with the company for 15 years. He lives
BINGHAM FARMS - In Jacobs Media's new web study of radio listeners, a big story is how radio’s traditional listening locations – the home, the car, and the workplace – are undergoing change. From content consumed to new distribution outlets to emerging gadgetry, the traditional pattern of media usage and radio listening are changing – in
HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University partnered with the US Forest Service to provide education modules designed at Michigan Tech and shared through the Climate Change Resource Center. Scientists have long known that the Earth’s climate is changing, but finding interactive and up-to-date information about why it’s changing and what can be done to mitigate
WASHINGTON DC - America’s wind power workforce installed 908 utility-scale turbines in the first quarter of 2017, totaling 2,000 megawatts of capacity, enough electricity to power 500,000 average homes, a new report contends. The American Wind Energy Association said the first quarter was the wind industry’s strongest start in eight years. The statistics are contained
ANN ARBOR - The Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan has awarded nearly $500,000 to support four sustainability-related research projects in the U.S. and abroad. The four projects will investigate sustainable diets in Kenya and Vietnam, climate adaptation strategies of indigenous tribes in the Great Lakes region, climate-related health disparities among marginalized communities,
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan has named its bipolar disorder research program for Heinz Prechter, in honor of a new gift commitment of up to $5 million by the World Heritage Foundation - Prechter Family Fund. But the gift comes with a challenge to others who care about bipolar disorder: The Prechter family
ANN ARBOR - Consumer sentiment in April continued to travel on the high plateau established following Donald Trump's election, with only minor deviations from its five-month average of 97.4, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. There is widespread agreement among consumers on their very positive assessments of the current state of the
ANN ARBOR - Oakland County roared out of the recession with a job growth rate of 2.4 percent per year from 2009 to 2016—outpacing both the nation's and Michigan's job growth in the same period. Job growth for the next three years is forecast to average 2 percent per year or an increase of more
