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Auto-ISAC Topic For Motor City ISSA Meeting March 16

SOUTHFIELD - Auto-ISAC’s Automotive cybersecurity training program supported by NHTSA is the topic March 16 for Motor City ISSA. Tamara Shoemaker, who founded the Michigan Cyber Patriot program, is also the lead for Auto-ISAC. Also on the program is Michael Small from The Cyber Union. Auto-ISAC’s Automotive cybersecurity training (ACT) program supported by nhtsa: Learn

By |2023-03-14T12:52:29-04:00March 13th, 2023|Cyber Defense|

Carbon Capture Tech Turns Pollution Into Baking Soda And Store It In The Oceans

NEW YORK - Scientists have set out a way to suck planet-heating carbon pollution from the air, turn it into sodium bicarbonate and store it in oceans, according to a new paper. The technique could be up to three times more efficient than current carbon capture technology, say the authors of the study, published Wednesday in the

By |2024-05-28T17:07:18-04:00March 12th, 2023|Clean Update|

Drivers In Michigan Can’t Stop Scooping up Used Chevy Equinox SUVs

DETROIT - Consumers are definitely driving their cars longer than ever before. And today’s vehicles are lasting longer due to innovative engineering, too. So, buying used cars continues to be a popular trend, especially for those interested in saving money and avoiding new car depreciation. This trend inspires the latest iSeeCars used car study, where all

By |2023-03-07T19:48:34-05:00March 7th, 2023|Mobile MI, Mobility|

New Cancer-Screening Urine Test Has 99 Percent Accuracy Rate

KOREA - A simple urine test could soon help prevent pancreatic and prostate cancer from progressing through early detection. Researchers from the Surface & Nano Materials Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science recently developed a strip-type urine sensor capable of amplifying the light signal of metabolites in urine to diagnose cancer. In a press

By |2023-03-08T09:58:50-05:00March 7th, 2023|Featured, Life Sciences, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Michigan Works! Southeast Moves To Ann Arbor

YPSILANTI – Michigan Works! Southeast announced plans to move their Ypsilanti office to a new location this summer.  The workforce development agency will relocate to 1201 E Ellsworth Road, near Stone School Road in the Ann Arbor city limits. The new facility is centrally located within Washtenaw County and will offer more space for career

By |2023-03-07T19:48:35-05:00March 7th, 2023|Government/Politics|

Best Way To Beat Burnout And It’s Not A Vacation

BOSTON - According to research recently published by the Harvard Business Review, vacations are not the most effective way to reduce burnout. But that doesn't mean less time off is the answer. In fact, more time off is. What the Harvard researchers found is that employees need an extended period of time off in order

By |2023-03-07T19:48:36-05:00March 7th, 2023|Entrepreneurs|

Car Companies To Charge Monthly Fees For Heated Seats — EVs Make It Easier

DETROIT - Pricey add-ons could start ruffling EV-buyer feathers — but automakers might struggle to survive without them, a new study said. There's a simple reason why: EVs aren't very profitable for automakers — and certainly nowhere near how profitable gas-powered cars. A Ford executive recently told the Detroit Free Press its EVs won't be profitable

By |2023-03-08T09:59:41-05:00March 7th, 2023|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Featured|

Study: Less Than 1 Percent Of Land In Lower 48 To Decarbonize US Power Sector

WASHINGTON DC - Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. Fortunately, the answer is relatively little. A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an

By |2023-03-03T14:11:26-05:00March 3rd, 2023|Clean Update, Featured|

New UFO Docuseries Reveals Latest Details About The Unknown

NEW YORK - With news of three unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) being shot down throughout the North American continent, front and center in the media, National Geographic’s latest docuseries, UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, could not have debuted at a more opportune time. The series takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects. The concept

By |2023-03-03T14:11:26-05:00March 3rd, 2023|Featured, Science|

Move Over AI: Scientists Discover New Organoid Intelligence Field

NEW YORK - Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States believes such machines, part of a new field called “organoid intelligence,” could shape the future — and now they have a plan to get there. Organoids are lab-grown tissues that resemble organs.

By |2023-03-03T14:11:27-05:00March 3rd, 2023|Industry 4.0|