BLOOMFIELD HILLS - While national venture capital investing decreased in 2022, Michigan continued to show strength with $1.2 billion invested into Michigan-based companies--an increase of 12 percent over 2021. Within the Great Lakes region, Michigan has been accelerating in venture capital activity with a growth rate of 13.7 percent since 2006, slightly higher than the
SEATTLE - The ‘world’s most advanced’ humanoid robot, Ameca, has raised eyebrows once again with its stunning prediction of what the world will be like 100 years from now. In a recent interview, the robot was asked to delve into the future and provide its verdict on what society would look like a century from
TOKYO - When it comes to electric vehicles, the battle is heating up. Tesla, once kings of the EV world, now find increased competition from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW. There are some late bloomers though with Honda and Toyota taking their time to get into the EV race but now, with solid-state battery technology
BRUSSELS - Dozens of cities in Europe could reach net zero carbon emissions within the next 10 years by incorporating nature into their urban infrastructure, according to new research. A recent study published by researchers from Sweden, the U.S. and China in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change shows how 54 European cities could reduce carbon emissions
WASHINGTON DC - The Pentagon's official office for addressing UFOs has a new website where U.S. government and military personnel can report their own sightings. The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) unveiled the new website on Wednesday (Aug. 30). According to a note from the office's director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the website will be used to inform the public
WASHINGTON DC - The time has finally come for robots to duke it out. According to ScienceAlert, to keep up with the ongoing threat presented by China, the United States is kicking a robot army into gear. The news came from the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, who says that over the next two
MOSCOW - Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) has launched its new supercomputer named MSU-270 with a peak computational power of 400 'AI' PetaFLOPS. This machine will be used for various artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications and for training large AI models. The MSU-270 is based on the 'latest graphics accelerators,' though MSU
CHIGAGO - An international think-tank of physicists believes a famous UFO sighting in Chicago may hold clues about 'faster than light' space travel. At about 4:14 PM on November 7, 2006, a ramp employee at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport spotted a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering in the sky. The sighting, which lasted for five minutes and was witnessed
ANN ARBOR - Activists in Ann Arbor have been developing a plan to remove the DTE Energy as the city's provider of electricity and replace it with a city-owned utility. Greg Woodring is leading the effort for the group called Ann Arbor for Public Power. Greg joins MITech TV to provide the back story and
TROY - There's been a dramatic decrease in new car pricing over the last six months, led by a sharp decline in EV prices, says Michelle Krebs, Executive Analyst with Cox Automotive, the parent company of Kelly Blue Book and Autotrader. Inventories of new vehicles are up a few hundred thousand unit to around 2
