-
Westminster elementary students learn how science and technology tie into golf
Here’s your Thursday afternoon news roundup | October 19, 2023 Here’s your Thursday afternoon news roundup | October 19, 2023 02:23 BALTIMORE – Westminster National Golf Course hosted 100 third graders from Westminster Elementary School on Thursday for a hands-on cross-curricular STEM-related field trip. The students learned all about golf and the science and technology…
-
Smart Wires technology selected for two new projects under the DOE’s GRIP program
DURHAM, N.C. — Smart Wires today announced that its advanced power flow control technology—SmartValve™—is the focal technology to be used in two projects funded under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program, per the DOE’s official announcement on 18 October. SmartValve will enhance grid flexibility and the resilience of the…
-
Eversource plans new technology it says change how it charges for electricity
Connecticut residents who have the number or app for Eversource on their phones just in case they have to report an outage may no longer need them, thanks to new technology it’s planning to roll out. The energy company says it plans to install Advanced Meter Infrastructure smart meters, which monitor and offer customers real-time…
-
Convoy says will shut operations, sell off technology amid market downturn
Export rebound, manufacturing imports keeping Gulf Coast volumes afloat Amid a down year overall, Gulf Coast port volumes are holding up thanks to petrochemical exports, as well as growing imports related to energy projects and specialized manufacturing in the region.
-
Here come the ‘custobots’: AI pervades Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends
<!–> Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Getty Images Gartner has identified the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2024 and generative and other types of AI solutions take center stage with widespread adoption and risks that are primary focus areas. The top strategic technology trends for 2024 are: 1. Democratized Generative AI Generative AI (aka, GenAI) is becoming democratized…
-
“Buncha rocks always beats centuries of technological progress” — Star Trek: Lower Decks: “Caves”
One of the joys of producing a science fiction TV show about a ship that goes to planet to planet is that you have to create those planets on a TV-show budget. The original Star Trek would often do this with location shooting in remote locales (like Vasquez Rocks) or on existing sets on the…
-
Satellite technology leads to recovery of stolen car: Euclid Police Blotter
EUCLID, Ohio — Here is the police blotter for the Euclid Police Department for Oct. 9 through Oct. 15. Satellite technology aids stolen vehicle recovery: Euclid Avenue Satellite technology helped Euclid and Willowick police team up Oct. 14 to recover a vehicle stolen from a gas station in Euclid. A Euclid officer was sent to…
-
We Don’t Actually Know if AI Is Taking Over Everything
Since the release of ChatGPT last year, I’ve heard some version of the same thing over and over again: What is going on? The rush of chatbots and endless “AI-powered” apps has made starkly clear that this technology is poised to upend everything—or, at least, something. Yet even the AI experts are struggling with a…
-
AI Images From Dall-E 3 Are Bolder, More Detailed and More Fun
If you want to inject some new energy into your generative AI images, turning text prompts into zany art, a new option arrived Thursday, as OpenAI released its Dall-E 3 technology to paying customers. The new artificial intelligence model is designed to better understand what your text prompts mean, produce detailed images and sidestep the legally…
-
Ultra-bright light breakthrough could spark ‘technological and scientific revolution’
A new method of producing an ultra-bright light which breaks traditional laws of particle physics could potentially spark a technological revolution. The ultra-bright light, a form of ‘coherent light’, is created by particles moving in synchrony rather than independently. This synchrony creates incredibly fast, intense pulses that operate on a scale of atto-seconds – or…