by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
UniversalHub, a Boston-oriented news site, reports that a company with the maybe-clever-maybe-annoying name of Draganfly (“a” not “o”) will provide non-autonomous drones to Mass General in a test of delivering medicine, even medical equipment,...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, which covers NH and most of Maine, says the first half of meteorological winter (Dec., Jan., Feb.) has been the wettest on record for both the Concord and Portland stations. That includes rain – so, so much rain –...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A site called 404media says it looked at scraped data about a national network of shared public and private surveillance cameras and found “more than a hundred” police departments, sheriff’s departments and others using them – including...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
MassLive reports (here): This summer, millions of cicadas from broods XIX (emerging every 13 years) and XIII (every 17 years) will both crawl out from underground and fly across the south and Midwest looking for a mate, according to Cicadamania, a website dedicated to...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
As mythological metaphors go, the one that SNHU professor David Humphreys gave during a recent talk about the eruption of technologies known as artificial intelligence wasn’t terribly reassuring. “We’ve opened a Pandora’s box,” he told two dozen university students...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Over the years I have occasionally glimpsed a scurrying weasel-like shape that might be a fisher but I can’t say with certainty that I’ve ever seen one, much to my annoyance. These elusive beasts are the subject of a $2 million grant to NH Fish and Game...
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