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About Mike Brennan

Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.

AI-Assisted Full-Stack Developer Internship – Zorp Video MVP

ANN ARBOR - Zorp Video is an innovation-driven platform that helps organizations capture, manage, and search internal video knowledge. We turn workplace know-how into searchable, shareable insights—accelerating innovation across manufacturing, engineering, and industrial sectors. We’re building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that integrates AI for transcription, search, and chat retrieval. The project demonstrates how video knowledge capture

By |2026-01-07T15:31:52-05:00December 8th, 2025|ESD, Featured, Industry 4.0|
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Michigan Minimum Wage Rising to $13.73 in 2026; Businesses, Workers Split on Impact

LANSING — Michigan’s minimum wage is set to increase from $12.48 to $13.73 per hour on Jan. 1, 2026, under the state’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act — a scheduled rise that continues the state’s multi-year wage adjustment tied to inflation and economic conditions. The law, passed in 2018, raises the minimum wage only in

By |2026-01-24T05:18:40-05:00December 8th, 2025|News|
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Michigan Cannabis Industry Fights 24 Percent Wholesale Tax In Court

DETROIT - The Michigan Court of Claims heard arguments Nov. 25 over the constitutionality of a new 24% wholesale tax on cannabis products, a measure that has sparked significant backlash from the state’s legal marijuana industry. The tax, set to take effect on Jan. 1, was passed as part of Michigan’s fiscal 2026 budget to raise $420 million to

By |2025-12-07T14:16:51-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Featured, Marijuana Business, News|
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Richard Stiennon’s New Book Explores How AI Security Is Reshaping Digital Defense

Artificial intelligence is not just changing business workflows or creative tools - it is reinventing cybersecurity itself. In the latest MITechTV segment, cybersecurity analyst and author Richard Stiennon joined Mike Brennan to unveil his newest project: a book that tackles one of the most pressing questions in the industry today - how AI security is

By |2025-12-07T15:52:01-05:00December 3rd, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Defense, mitechtv|
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Ohio Cannabis Communities Still Waiting for Millions in Tax Revenue — Relief May Come in December

COLUMBUS - Ohio communities hosting recreational marijuana dispensaries are still waiting for their share of cannabis tax revenue — despite the state collecting tens of millions of dollars since adult-use sales began in September 2024. So far, none of that money has reached local governments. That could change in December if the Ohio Senate returns

By |2025-12-02T09:42:51-05:00December 2nd, 2025|Marijuana Business, News|
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Runway Launches New Gen 4.5 AI Video Model — Claims It Beats Google & OpenAI

NEW YORK - Artificial intelligence startup Runway on Monday announced Gen 4.5, a new video model that outperforms similar models from Google and OpenAI in an independent benchmark. Gen 4.5 allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts that describe the motion and action they want. Runway said the model is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and

By |2025-12-01T17:18:04-05:00December 1st, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|
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Former Benzinga Founders Launch IgniteIT Platform

DETROIT - Former Benzinga Founders Launch IgniteIT Platform as a new, independent initiative serving the IgniteIT cannabis industry community. Previously operating under Benzinga Cannabis, the platform is now entering a new chapter. As a result, IgniteIT can focus more clearly on connection, growth, and opportunity. Moreover, the platform aims to support cannabis and other emerging

By |2026-01-17T11:04:17-05:00December 1st, 2025|mitechtv, New Products, New Products / Contracts|
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Study Predicts When Triple Whammy Extinction Event Will Hit Earth

NEW YORK - Scientists think they know when a mass extinction event will hit Earth. Living creatures will likely face a 'triple whammy' of extinction events that will make the Earth inhospitable to life, a Nature Geoscience study conducted using a supercomputer has found. But thankfully, despite the habitat-endangering threat posed through climate change caused by the

By |2025-11-30T17:28:22-05:00November 30th, 2025|Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid, Clean, Green, wireless|
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Oceans To Produce Clean And Constant Power For The World

NEW YORK - The discovery that oceans will power the world is rather interesting. Thus far, humans have always relied on the ocean for food, water, and trade. Now humankind will look towards the ocean as a new underwater dragon is said to produce clean and constant power. 1.2 MW of power will be delivered

By |2025-11-27T09:06:50-05:00November 27th, 2025|Clean Update|
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Consumers Energy To Invest More Whan $13 Billion In Renewables, Distribution By 2029

JACKSON - Consumers Energy expects to spend $5.2 billion on renewables and $8.5 billion on distribution-level reliability and resilience projects through 2029. Through 2035, the company anticipates spending $10 billion for line undergrounding and pole replacement, $10 billion for the commission-approved 10.8 GW of renewables and at least $5 billion for the battery storage and

By |2025-11-27T09:25:59-05:00November 26th, 2025|Engineering Society of Detroit, ESD|
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