WASHINGTON DC - Investors are enthusiastic about QuantumScape, developer of an electric-vehicle battery that promises more power for less cost. If the company succeeds, Tesla could face new challenges. One of the wildest plotlines in the great 2020 electric-vehicle rally was the late-year rise of QuantumScape, a battery startup that has yet to report any
ANN ARBOR - The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are now available and millions of people have been vaccinated. But the lingering question remains are they safe, since they were developed in record time. Epidemiologist Fred Brown, who is advising states and nation states, including the incoming Biden Administration, on how to combat the pandemic
ANN ARBOR - Sibrina Collins and Jaclyn Smith from LTU's Marburger STEM Center join Matt Roush and Mike Brennan to talk about the virtual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math programs aimed at helping grade school teachers teach STEM to K-12 students in a virtual setting due to the Pandemic. The Lawrence Technological University A.
ANN ARBOR - Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon provide details on how the Russians hacked the Solarwinds networking software used by US government and nearly all the Fortune 500 companies in America. Russia's hack of IT management company SolarWinds began as far back as March, and it only came to light when the
BEER-SHEVA, Israel – Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have determined. The intriguing study, "Online Disclosure Depends on How You Ask for Information,” is being presented at the 41st International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2020),
LANSING – Supporting efforts to ensure greater access to broadband and high-speed internet across the state, Michigan will receive $362,985,055 in federal funding over the next 10 years to expand broadband access to 249,263 sites statewide. The funding is being awarded through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase 1 auction, the
LANSING - Participation in Michigan’s distributed energy generation program continued to grow in 2019 as the program capacity increased 53 percent, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission’s annual report on the state’s distributed generation program. Every year since 2006, participation has grown in the program, and 2019 was no different. The MPSC’s 2019 Distributed Generation Program
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown compares the two current COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by the FDA and will be made available soon to the public. Pros and cons of the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. You will want to watch this video interview. https://youtu.be/s0-RWwBAVOk Trained as a medicinal biochemist, Brown has been
ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV Dec. 21 at 2 pm, Dan Lohrmann, formerly Michigan’s chief information security officer, and Richard Stiennon, a Forbes magazine cybersecurity contributor, will explain the damage caused by the Russian hack of the SolarWinds software used by US agencies. In the second half hour, Epidemiologist Fred Brown, who works with
ANN ARBOR - On the Dec. 16 edition of Four20Post, Jamie Cooper from Sensi Connects and Rick Thompson from Jazz Cabbage Cafe join Mike Brennan from MIMarijuanaReport to interview executives of Terrapin Care Station, a cannabis retailer that has just entered the Michigan market, and Gage Cannabis announcing its second social equity participant. https://youtu.be/xmOyKNNNr_Y
