LANSING - Michiganders who recently filed a 2016 state individual income tax return can check the status of their refund online by going to THE Treasury Department website. Individuals who e-filed can check their refund status two weeks from the date confirmation was received that the state return was accepted. The status of paper-filed tax
ANN ARBOR - Last month, Amazon Web Services crashed for up to 12 hours, leaving millions of customers without Internet service. Online Tech offers its Disaster Recovery as a Service product that keeps its customers' Networks up when others are down. To learn more about, DRaaS, watch this video.
ANN ARBOR - A new interdisciplinary health sciences resource center at the University of Michigan has received an $11.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health to advance regenerative medicine. The center, led by the School of Dentistry, brings together scientists, engineers and clinicians from several U-M departments in collaboration with researchers at the
ANN ARBOR - Gemphire Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced that it has closed on the sale of 1.3 million shares of stock to a select group of accredited investors that will raise about $12.5 million, providing cash flow through 2018. Gemphire Therapeutics will use the money to fund development costs, the company said
AUSTIN - Multi-billonaire Mark Cuban, speaking at South By Southwest, said the world’s first trillionaires will be men and women who master Artificial Intelligence and its derivatives. "I am telling you, the world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives," the Shark Tank investor said, according to
TROY - Alchemie, an education technology company, announced it has received a $700,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its research and development efforts. This is Alchemie’s Phase II SBIR grant; it earned the initial Phase I award of $150,000 in January 2016 and a Phase IB of $30,000 in
ARDEN HILLS, Mn. - Land O’Lakes Inc. wants tech innovator to develop proposed solutions that will let farmers use autonomous drones to help develop precision agriculture. The agribusiness giant has launched the Land O’Lakes Drone Challenge with a prize of $140,000 to a grand-prize winner, and two $5,000 prizes for two runners-up. Winners will retain
ANN ARBOR - Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today's electronics. The researchers, including engineers at the University of Michigan, showed that they could control the peaks within the laser pulses and also twist the light.
ANN ARBOR - While the rate of ownership of cars and light trucks has steadily declined since its peak a decade ago, it is starting to climb, says a University of Michigan researcher. In his ninth report in a series examining recent changes in various aspects of motorization in the U.S., Michael Sivak of the
ANN ARBOR - A University of Michigan startup that's developing a non-invasive way to remove diseased tissue from cancer patients using high-intensity ultrasound has attracted $8.3 million in Series B financing. The investment will help advance clinical trials of HistoSonics' Robotic Assisted Sonic Therapy—an innovative tissue-destruction technology targeted for liver cancer and other solid tumor
