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WASHINGTON DC - The Defense Department christened the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot robot ghost ship designed to seek out and track diesel-powered submarines across the ocean. The start of the test phase for the program on Thursday signals a new dawn for autonomous systems at sea, which, Pentagon officials say, will perform an ever-wider variety
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
FERNDALE - Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean, the man of a thousand voices, Mr. Detroit himself, appears on M2 TechCast on April 4 to talk about his organization that works hard to connect entrepreneurs, businesses and tech professionals across the Metro area. His LinkedIn group is just short of 10,000 members. LinkedIn became the
FERNDALE - Rave Computer’s Stephen Couchman and Matt Moy call in live from the NVIDIA GTC Conference in San Jose to talk about the Rave Mobilebeast, one of first hard core venture into high end graphics workstation. There is a convergence happening in design and marketing to develop more advanced technology for customers. Most computer
FERNDALE - With 11 offices across the state, the Michigan Small Business and Development Center works to provide tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses across the state. Besides providing a myriad of business training, and mentoring of would-be entrepreneurs, the MISBDC launched in innovative “Small Business, Big Threat,” http://sbdcmichigan.org/cyber-security-initiative/, that allows business to access
DETROIT - The co-author of the book, “Would you Baptize An Extraterrestrial?” Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, a native of Detroit, will appear Saturday April 9 on the Internet Advisor radio show on WJR 760 AM to talk about his new job as Pope Francis’ Astronomer. The “Catholic Astronomer,” will be on the show at 4
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan will be collaborating with Toyota, which will invest $1 billion to create a major autonomous vehicle research base in Ann Arbor, the third such hub in the United States. It joins others established recently in Palo Alto working with Stanford, and in Cambridge with MIT. The Ann Arbor
TEL AVIV, Israel - Karamba wants to keep hackers from crashing your new connected car. The Israeli company hopes to sell Detroit automakers a tool that installs anti-hacking technology into chip-bearing auto parts before they hit the assembly line. And now the company has the money to expand production. On Thursday, YL Ventures announced it
EAST LANSING - Orindi Ventures, which developed a low profile mask that conserves energy by warming and humidifying the air you breath before it hits your lungs, won the $25,000 grand prize at the fourth annual Greenlight Business Model Competition. Second prize, and a $10,000 check, went to Spartan Assays. Third place and $4,000 was
LANSING - Michigan is extending the deadline for requests for information and proposals as a result of requests from prospective contractors interested in performing an independent risk analysis and independent alternatives analysis related to the pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac, known as Enbridge Line 5. The new deadline will now be April 18 (up
