WASHINGTON DC - U.S. wind farms now pay $222 million dollars a year to farming families and other rural landowners, with more than $156 million dollars going to landowners in counties with below average incomes, a new study released Tuesday shows. $650 million dollars a year in payments to landowners every year is possible by
ALLENDALE - More than 1,000 high school students on 41 teams from across the state will compete in the varsity sport for the mind at Grand Valley State University March 24-26. The For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics District Competition will take place in the Fieldhouse on the Allendale Campus. Teams will
FERNDALE - Cyber Security and Drones will be the focus on M2 (Squared) TechCast on Monday March 21 at 3 pm on the PodcastDetroit Network. Chinese hackers moving into ransomeware plus data breach digest from Verizon - both paint scary scenarios. At 3 pm Dronelaw pro Enrico Schaefer will discuss proposed legislation in the U.S.
SOUTHFIELD – A new water runoff control system in a parking lot at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield is among the water quality improvement projects that will be showcased at the White House Water Summit Tuesday, March 22. LTU professor Donald Carpenter received word of the project’s inclusion in the Water Summit on Wednesday. “This
TROY - RIIS has stepped up to become the new host and sponsor of the Detroit Chapter of Mobile Monday Michigan subsidiary for the balance of 2016. “We had a great, steady location for five years at Compuware,” said Linda Daichendt, Executive Director of the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan. “Since leaving there during the
GRAND RAPIDS – As mobile and wireless technologies continue to evolve, Bluetooth technology is no exception. The latest evolution of Bluetooth, known as Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) will be explored in-depth at the March meeting of Mobile Monday Grand Rapids on March 21. Areas of the topic to be explored include: the technical aspects of
TROY - If you’re a woman who would like to find out what it is like to work in Application Development, Ethical Hacking, Usability and Agile, then the Women in Mobile-Wireless Tech Career Event on April 21 may be for you. Women working in these technology fields will discuss what it takes at RIIS in
LANSING - The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice mobile tour app, commissioned by the Michigan Film & Digital Media Office, will debut on the same day the film appears in theaters, March 25. The exciting new app developed by Grand Rapids-based Mutually Human allows movie fans and travel enthusiasts to combine their interests to
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has awarded a total of $100,000 in deer habitat improvement grants in the Upper Peninsula to be allocated between a dozen recipients. “This grant cycle was extremely competitive,” said Bill Scullon, DNR field operations manager from the Norway Field Office and grant program administrator. The Deer Habitat
GRAND RAPIDS - The dawning age of self-driving vehicles will radically transform the century - old love affair with humans driving cars, and lead to swarms of connected vehicles motoring down the roads in orchestrated packs - while transforming ownership from individuals to companies, such as Uber, Google and Lyft, predicted technologist Keith Brophy, in
