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ANN ARBOR - Instead of taking you home from work, your self-driving car delivers you to a desolate road, where it pulls off on the shoulder and stops. You call your vehicle to pick you up from a store and instead you get a text message: Send $100 worth of Bitcoin to this account and
LAS VEGAS - At this year's CES you'll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. (Yes, we promise IoT, perhaps the buzziest of tech trends, is more than just hackable baby monitors and $400 internet-connected juicers.) Here's the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G.
ROYAL OAK - The role of Public Relations has expanded dramatically. In this new world, PR agencies must keep new things in mind in order to succeed. They must also be nimble enough to adapt to future disruptions, because the Digital Age simply doesn’t stand still, so says Tim Moynihan from Airfoil Group. Moynihan, based
ROYAL OAK - Augmented Reality now has First Amendment Free Speech Protection after attorney Brian Wassom from Warner Norcross & Judd won a court case in December that would have forced Candy Lab AR to buy permits for its customers to use public parks to play Texas Rope ‘Em, an AR game. The case represents
ANN ARBOR - Consumer confidence in 2017 was the highest since 2000, and only the long expansions of the 1960s and 1990s were significantly higher, a new report from the University of Michigan says. Consumer confidence did sink in December, with most of the decline among lower income households, according to the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR - Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Information and Washtenaw Community College will collaborate on an open-source course with the goal of encouraging more students to consider a U-M Bachelor of Science in Information degree. The two institutions have teamed up to offer WCC students, particularly those underrepresented in STEM fields,
ANN ARBOR - By turning computer circuits into unsolvable puzzles, a University of Michigan team aims to create an unhackable computer with a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Todd Austin, U-M professor of computer science and engineering, leads the project, called MORPHEUS. Its cybersecurity approach is dramatically different from
EAST LANSING - Applications are now open for the sixth annual GreenLight Business Model Competition, a $100,000 statewide contest focused on early-stage entrepreneurs, based in Michigan, less than two years old. Applicants must be Michigan residents and have a well-crafted business idea. Applicants who already have a registered business must provide evidence that the entity
YPSILANTI TWP. - At what is now the Willow Run Airport Ford Motor Company built some 8,000 plus B-24 bombers during World War II, helping Detroit earn the nickname The Arsenal of Democracy. Now some 75 years later, the site is home to a state-of-the art proving grounds for testing autonomous vehicle technology - perhaps
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday Dec. 18, Aaryn Richards from the MSU Foundation will provide details on the Green Light entrepreneur competition. Tim Moynihan, Airfoil Group’s editorial services and media strategist, will discuss the role of PR in a digital age. Kevin Finn, Dean of Students at Lawrence Technological University, will talk about
