ANN ARBOR - Big Tech has come to town. Billion-dollar companies are in a race to build “hyperscale” data centers to fuel their push to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies. The rural residents that would live next to these projects are marshalling future resistance to them. Southeast Michigan communities and their elected officials
NOVI – ITC Michigan announced a donation of $290,000 across seven Michigan food banks, as part of its Greater Giving program. ITC Michigan, which builds, operates and maintains the high-voltage electric transmission system across most of the Lower Peninsula, will donate to the following seven Michigan food banks to help area residents in need: Gleaners
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google’s Gemini 3 was released last week to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. It’s blown past OpenAI and other competitors’ products on a range of benchmarks and is topping the charts on LMArena,
DONGGUAN, China - A factory next to a weed-ridden lot in China's industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that just a few years ago swore it wouldn't be caught again by supply-chain disruptions. Automakers vowed to strengthen supply lines after COVID-19 snarled semiconductor output in 2020 and
CENTRAL ASIA - Archaeologists have revealed that a lost city sits below the surface of Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan in central Asia. They saw brick walls, broken buildings, wooden beams, and even a medieval cemetery resting just a few meters underwater. The Atlantis-like discovery brings a similar kind of wonder. As researchers studied the
CALIFORNIA - A 'white gold' mine containing $540 billion in treasures has been discovered at the bottom of a giant lake in Southern California. The Salton Sea, which is the largest lake in the US state was being studied by scientists as part of research funded by the Department of Energy. The study aimed to
SOUTHFIELD —As technology reshapes every industry, Lawrence Technological University and MedCerts, a Stride Inc. company and national provider of online healthcare and IT career training, are joining forces to close the skills gap in two of the fastest-growing fields, said Mary Schutten, Dean of LTU’s College of Health Sciences. She joins MITechTV to provide details.
DETROIT - Researchers studying whether food crops and a solar array could share the same land were shocked to discover a mutually beneficial relationship between the plants and panels, The experiment took place in Houston, Alaska, about one hour outside Anchorage. Houston is home to Alaska's largest solar array. Using funding from the Department of
COLUMBUS - Ohio lawmakers passed a bill last week that would ban intoxicating hemp products and make changes to the state’s marijuana laws by a 52-34 to margin sending S.B. 56 to the senate The Ohio Senate has session scheduled for Dec. 9 and Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, R-Lima, said he is confident the
WASHINGTON DC - NASA has announced the discovery of potential signs of ancient life on Mars. The revelation was made during a press conference about the comet 3I/ATLAS, which had been widely speculated to be an "alien spaceship". Amit Kshatriya, NASA's Associate Administrator, informed thousands of space enthusiasts that signals indicative of ancient life forms have been
