ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan created a record 173 license and option agreements with companies seeking to commercialize the discoveries of university researchers in the past fiscal year. “It is gratifying to see this record-setting number for our most important metric in tech transfer performance,” said Ken Nisbet, associate vice president for research-technology
NEW YORK - Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up Friday morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.
KALAMAZOO - Jill Bland and Carla Winchester of Southwest Michigan First have been named Finalists in the categories of Female Executive of the Year and Female Innovator of the Year, respectively, in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. On November 18, they will each ultimately be recognized as Gold, Silver or Bronze Stevie Award
ANN ARBOR - Kelli Trosvig will become the University of Michigan's first vice president for information technology and chief information officer, effective Nov. 14. The five-year appointment was approved today by the Board of Regents. Trosvig is currently the vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Washington. The new
STAMFORD - Worldwide PC shipments declined 5.7 percent in the third quarter - the eighth consecutive - the longest decline in the history of Personal Computers. This news comes from Gartner Group. Third quarter shipments totaled 68.9 million units. In the United States, PC shipments totaled 16.2 million units in the third quarter, a 0.3 percent
AUBURN HILLS - Faurecia North American will close two metro Detroit factories resulting in the layoff of 348 employees after FCA US discounted production of its Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart models. The interiors and emission controls supplier's Merrill Road plant in Sterling Heights and its Masonic Road plant in Fraser will be closed as
ANN ARBOR - Dendrites, whiskers of lithium that grow inside batteries and can cause fires like those in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, are the bane of next-generation lithium batteries. While they usually spread under cover of darkness in a closed cell, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan has spied on them
BOSTON - It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop – the effect of an impact has similar negative effects on people and on the sensitive electronic parts of robots. A new research project from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help lessen the damaging effects of sudden physical shocks, for both humans
SAN FRANCISCO - Magicians are always coming up with new ways to trick people, and so are the hackers. And this time is no different. Hackers will do whatever they can to trick people into getting their login credentials, or try to lure them into a tempting offer, in which once they enter their details, will
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 is offering two new services, Compliance Elite and Executive Security Information Advisory Services, the latest enhancements to its Managed Security Services portfolio. “With IP theft soaring more than 56 percent this year and the average cost of breaches exceeding $2.5 million per incident, executives recognize the impact a lack of security has
