WASHINGTON DC - Lawmakers' efforts to overhaul some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs were dealt a setback Tuesday when a reform bill failed to garner enough votes to proceed in the Senate. The USA Freedom Act would have curbed powers granted to the NSA under the Patriot Act -- including the NSA's
MINNEAPOLIS - RedEye, which provides 3D printing and additive manufacturing services, has partnered with NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to 3D print 30 antenna array supports for the FORMOSAT-7 Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate satellite mission. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the COSMIC-2 mission marks the first time 3D printed parts will function
GILLINGHAM, England - Delphi Automotive PLC will partner with Ottomatika, a company started by Carnegie Mellon University, to jointly develop technology that will help accelerate automated driving. Delphi, the company that first introduced automotive radar systems, will integrate its active safety technologies with Ottomatika?s automated driving software. The combination of the two creates a technology
LANSING - Both the Michigan House and the Senate are expected to take action on a package of bills that would allow the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to streamline all of its reporting requirements on the 21st Century Jobs Fund into one report and increase the amount of community revitalization projects it authorizes. Currently, House
ANN ARBOR - America's economy should grow at its fastest pace in a decade in 2015, and continue that stronger pace of growth into 2016, economists said at a conference in Ann Arbor on Thursday. That growth could result in more than 5 million jobs created in the United States during those two years, the
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DETROIT - Over the past few years, big data has caught the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a big way. Why? Because SMBs have learned that, like their larger counterparts, they, too, can use big data to cost effectively mine all the information collected about their customers, businesses or competitors. Now SMBs
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan is teaming up with Google and LunaTech 3D to present a free ?Let?s Put Grand Rapids on the Map? seminar Dec. 9. The seminar will help business owners better utilize Google?s highly targeted free and paid tools in their online marketing. Also on the agenda will be
WEST OLIVE - The Great Lakes Ag-Tech Business Incubator, a non-profit corporation that provides farmers and entrepreneurs hands-on support to commercialize farm their inventions, will host its grand opening December 1 at 10 a.m. Special guests include Congressman Bill Huizenga, Senate Majority Leader Elect Arlan Meekhof, Representative Roger Victory, and Representative Joseph Haveman, who will
HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University?s award-winning Peace Corps Master?s International program is offering new degree options for students in two departments: computer science and electrical and computer engineering (ECE). The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science is also expanding its PCMI programs to include a Master of Geographic Information Science. The expanded programs will