Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
North Country eagerly awaits the eclipse, but wishes it wasn’t coming during mud season
Colebrook is a nice little town alongside the Connecticut River not far from Quebec that has about 2,000 residents. On April 8, however, it will be a nice little town of … well, nobody really knows. “Are we going to have 2,000 more people or 10,000? Are we going to...
Deepfake audio tries to keep NH Democratic voters at home
In what appears to be the first case of AI-created political lies (aka "misinformation"), some New Hampshire voters have received robocalls that sound like President Biden telling them not to vote, a message that “appears to be artificially generated” and should be...
NH patents through Jan. 21
(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 Jan. 21. *** Nucleic Acids Encoding Chimeric Receptor Comprising NKP30...
Mass General Hospital to try non-autonomous drones to deliver medicine to patients’ homes
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, to patients' homes. The...
NWS confirms that it’s our winter has been record wet, even if not very snowy
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 - and melted...
Report: Manchester police using AI-driven surveillance cameras, part of a national network
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 Manchester NH police. The full...
This summer will see two sets of cicadas emerging!
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...
Granite Geek: The peril and promise (and plenty more peril) of A.I.
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...
NH wants to know more about fishers
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 from the...
NH patents through Jan. 14
(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 Jan. 14. *** Inter-Cell Fractional Frequency Reuse Scheduler PARALLEL...
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