by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Jon “maddog” Hall is many things, most notably a Linux guru and New Hampshire’s most famous software evangelist, but here’s what he isn’t: Reassuring about the arrival of the technologies known as artificial intelligence. Consider this exchange during a recent...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The hunt for large trees in New Hampshire is a delightful pasttime, which is why I have written about it many times. But another story is always fun, so check out this piece from New Hampshire Bulletin, the independent online news source, which notes the...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Noticed while putting together the weekly list of New Hampshire patents: Dean Kamen’s DEKA Research has filed a patent application for a Security Robot that has not of the cutesy roundness of most such robots. It looks like a wingless StarFighter on end placed...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Aug. 27. *** Cell Culture Vessels With Stabilizer Devices CORNING INC.,...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin has an article about a “big, brown and baffling” bloom in the Gulf of Maine. Whole article is here. An unusually large bloom of brown algae in the Gulf of Maine has caught the attention of scientists from across New England. So much...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
In 2013, coal generated 175 times as much electricity as solar power in the US. Within a decade, in 2022, coal was generating less than 5 times as much electricity (incl. estimated rooftop solar). So far this year, coal has generated slightly more than twice as much...