TRAVERSE CITY - Mark your calendars for noon Thursday as iHemp Michigan broadcasts live from Great Lakes Hemp Supplements in Traverse City. Michael Thue will demonstrate plant cloning. This is a valuable skill to have as we prepare for the 2020 planting season. Michael is a Certified Medical Assistant and a member of the American
ANN ARBOR - On MITech TV May 18, Nathan Keiretsu, from Keiretsu Capital, describes the innovations in healthcare his company is funding. Andrew Satz, co-founder and CEO, talks about using Artificial Intelligence to speed vaccine development. Cailin Greene from Sanitation Pod working with Children in COVID times. Fred Brown, our infectious disease expert, updates what
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Michigan Women Forward announced last week they have created a $1.5 million fund to help certain small businesses recover from COVID-19. The Michigan Entrepreneur Resilience Fund will provide recovery grants of $1,000-$5,000 and microloans of $5,000-$10,000 that can be used to support small businesses management of expenses
LANSING – Seventy-seven percent of small businesses have successfully submitted an application for the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, a recent survey reports. Key Findings of today’s survey include: The majority of small businesses have applied for a PPP loan. About 84 percent of applications were submitted before April 17,
ANN ARBOR - The United States is in a deep recession, but the official numbers are missing something big. They don’t reflect the immense value of the sacrifices being made by millions of people who have stayed at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Because we don’t charge one another for saving lives,
SAN FRANCISCO - This week, on land north of Toronto that previously burned in a wildfire, drones are hovering over fields and firing seed pods into the ground, planting native pine and spruce trees to help restore habitat for birds. Flash Forest, the Canadian startup behind the project, plans to use its technology to plant
LEWES, DE - Atlas VPN released a report that said remote desktop protocol attacks rocketed by 330 percent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The start of the these attacks increase correlates almost entirely with the start of lockdowns. From March 10, 2020, RDP brute-force attacks spiked in practically all selected countries. In the
SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla, through its research arm in Canada, has published the results of research on Hybrid Lithium-Ion/Lithium Metal Cells, which can be used to create what can be best described as all-electric cars with a range extender. Typically, when we talk about electric vehicles with a range extender, we are talking about a battery-powered
BIRMINGHAM – Angel investors Doron York and David Weaver, known lately as the co-founders of Cityside Ventures, have come up with a new way to help small businesses survive the COVID-19 depression that some experts say could bankrupt half of them by the end of 2020, if not sooner. Enter eiconica Advisors, billed as the
SAN FRANCISCO - In the age of the coronavirus, face masks have become a part of normal life. They're a safety requirement in many places, and for some people, a fashion statement. But for facial recognition technology, they pose a major challenge. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended wearing face coverings to help fight the
