LOS ANGELES — Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? A Los Angeles company has created phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room.
Friday, August 07, 2020
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
WASHINGTON - The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said on Wednesday the Trump administration is launching a national education partnership to expand access to K-12 quantum information science (QIS) education with major companies and research institutions.
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Zombie cicadas to murder hornets: Hold my beer.
Microsoft has emerged as a savior to young users of TikTok, who praised the tech industry giant for trying to buy parts of the social media company's operations, in hopes of avoiding a U.S. shutdown.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud unit is poised for a surge in fourth-quarter sales from U.S. retailers, as they brace for record online shopping during the holidays because of COVID-19 lockdowns.
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Facebook has completed a series of deals for the right to show music videos on its platform, raising the prospect of its competing more with Alphabet’s video platform YouTube in the area, Bloomberg said Thursday.
Friday, July 31, 2020
NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth’s planetary neighbor.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Taking a step toward a dream over a century in the making, New Hampshire became the first state in the nation to open its public highways to flying cars when Gov. Chris Sununu signed a transportation bill, HB 1182, into law.
Sunday, July 19, 2020
DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates will launch its first mission to Mars early on Monday as it strives to develop its scientific and technology capabilities and move away from its reliance on oil.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
LEMPSTER — New Hampshire Electric Cooperative is returning to its roots in its quest to bring high-speed internet access to members.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Amazon.com Inc. said it sent an email earlier on Friday that requested employees remove the TikTok app from mobile devices that also had access to company emails in error.
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Facebook Inc's decisions to allow controversial posts by President Donald Trump established a "terrible precedent" that could allow the platform to be "weaponized to suppress voting," an external civil rights audit found on Wednesday.
School officials in Nashua want to get Chromebooks into the hands of students in case remote learning must continue in some form when schools reopen in the fall.
Sunday, July 05, 2020
A rocket from small-satellite launch firm Rocket Lab failed to reach orbit minutes after a successful liftoff from New Zealand on Saturday, the company said, losing its payload of seven small satellites it had intended to carry to space.
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
PLYMOUTH — The board of directors of the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, which serves 84,000 homes and businesses in 115 Granite State communities, has voted to pursue providing high-speed internet access for members, and has appropriated $1 million toward the effort.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
LEWISTON, Idaho - Chip Damato didn't think he was picking sides in the U.S.-China tech war when he sent a crew to the roof of the Lewis Clark Hotel last year to install new telecommunications equipment.
TEL AVIV/ZURICH - Israeli start-up Redefine Meat plans to launch 3D printers to produce plant-based steaks mimicking real beef next year in a bid for a slice of the fast-growing alternative meat market.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Alphabet Inc's Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers and slash some of its dominance in online advertising, seven people involved in the talks said this month.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
When the American Civil Liberties Union ran a test of Amazon.com Inc.’s facial recognition technology, the software falsely matched 28 members of Congress, many of them minorities, with mugshots of arrested people from police files.
Friday, June 26, 2020
WASHINGTON — Up to three planets — potentially rocky like Earth — have been spotted around a star located relatively near our solar system — a planetary system offering astronomers intriguing possibilities in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
TOKYO — As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected “smart mask” that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
While the Segway rolls into the sunset, the iBOT is climbing toward a comeback.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
PLYMOUTH — A lot of things these days seem to be plant-based, including Plymouth State graduate student Hannah Vollmer’s recent national Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
In the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, horseshoe crabs are essential workers doing a high-risk job.
Saturday, June 13, 2020
A six-year-old lawsuit — filed in the ashes of the high-stakes failure of a New Hampshire tech company to manufacture iPhone screens — is winding down, after holdout defendant Apple Inc. recently agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle claims.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
CHICAGO - For Brian Nord, hearing about yet another black person dying at the hands of police always elicits the same response.
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
To help create interest about NASA space missions within a diverse population of college students, a research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire is leading a collaboration project with Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Sonoma State University in California.
LONDON/WASHINGTON - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.
Sunday, June 07, 2020
DURHAM — Scientists from the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center will use a $4.6 million grant from NASA to create a project that will offer a group of college students from across the country hands-on research experience designing and building small satellites that will be la…
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
WASHINGTON — An advocacy group backed by the tech industry sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would weaken a law protecting online platforms including social media companies that label or fact-check his posts.
