A nice piece on Vox today about the five main obstacles facing autonomous vehicles covers material I've thought about (weather limiting sensors, AI is bad at figuring out what people are thinking) but also some things I hadn't considered - such as: Many car...

For the past couple of years the proposed Kinder-Morgan gas pipeline through southern New Hampshire has created protests and political posturing galore, but it was sheer business that killed it: Not enough power companies signed up to buy gas under the long-term...

Beverly Hills - a small California city you may have heard of - is planning to create a publicly accessible system using autonomous vehicles as point-to-point transportation, instead of something old-fashioned like buses. This is forward-looking and cool, or...

The AP has a good story (seen here via the Portland Press-Herald site) about a Maine law that will let Fairpoint start edging away from the universal-service mandate, which requires landline phone companies to make access available to virtually everyone. The Maine law...

What do you do when you think that invasive insects are going to kill trees? You can try to save them, but if you're facing problems like the emerald ash borer or red pine scale, that's pretty hopeless - so instead you can cut them down while they're still relatively...

The following federal patents were assigned to individuals and companies in New Hampshire. Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (9,304,226) developed by four co-inventors for a “scintillator-based neutron detector for oilfield...

A research project in Madison, Wisconsin, is trying to take trees too small to be sold for lumber or energy biomass and turn them into a marketable product via "nanocellulose", reports USDA' Forest Products Laboratory (story here): Scientists are working with local...