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LANSING - eTail giant Amazon.Com will build a one million square foot fulfillment warehouse in Livonia and hire one thousand employees after receiving a $7.5 million grant Tuesday from the Michigan Strategic Fund. While all the details remain sketchy and unconfirmed, the Michigan Economic Development Corp told Crain’s Detroit the MEDC is "encouraged by Amazon's
SAN FRANCISCO - Future passwords could be more secure than anything you type, and all you'll have to do is look at your device's iris scanner to unlock it. Your eyes would serve as a more secure form of biometric security than your fingerprints, which hackers have been known to fool with high-resolution photos. The
ROYAL OAK - PodcastDetroit Network founding father David Phillips joins M2 TechCast to announce the Internet radio show network has surpassed 50 shows and opened yet another studio - this one in the Penobscot Building in downtown Detroit. Phillips said the new studio is aimed at businesses that want more production, more hand holding, more
ROYAL OAK - Lisa Vallee Smith, the CEO of Airfoil Group, M2 TechCast to talk about hot tech trends in 2016 and what we might expect in 2017. She said the rise of venture capital in the state is a very positive trend that will help spur the growth of many Michigan tech start-ups. She
OKEMOS - 2016 was the year hacktivists disrupted cyberspace as never before. And offline, hacker activities were much more unsettling to the international status quo. With the mix of fake news, leaked insider information to the press, and claims and counterclaims by public officials, the result was an undermining of news media and government source
LANSING - The Department of Technology, Management and Budget did not ensure that it had identified the state's most critical technology systems and, for those it had identified, it did not ensure that they could be restored within deadlines, a report released Thursday by Auditor General Doug Ringler said. The state designates certain systems as
LANSING - The final legislative session day of the 98th Legislature concluded with passage of the legislation that has dominated the 2015-16 term - a wide-ranging rewrite of the state's energy laws. Governor Rick Snyder, who brokered the 11th-hour deal with the utilities and advocates for greater customer choice who fought bitterly for the past
ROYAL OAK - Automation Alley Executive Director Tom Kelly joins Matt Roush and Mike Brennan on M2 TechCast to talk about recent trade missions and upcoming ones including Australia. The most recent trade mission was to Cuba - one of the best Automation Alley has even had, Kelly said. The proposed Australian trade mission would
ROYAL OAK - Drone Law Pro Enrico Schaefer updates the M2 TechCast audience by discussing how a student in Philadelphia flying his drone nearly flew into the path of a police helicopter that was observing a Trump rally. The pilot was flying at night and beyond his line of sight - both against FAA rules.
ANN ARBOR - A fully autonomous, 15-passenger electric shuttle manufactured by French company called NAVYA will support research and provide self-guided tours of Mcity, the University of Michigan's test site for connected and automated vehicles. U-M and NAVYA announced the collaboration Friday. This is the first of NAVYA's ARMA vehicles to operate in North America.
