(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 March 3. *** Firing Pin Lock SIG SAUER, INC., Newington, New Hampshire has...

The 9th Solar Decathlon Design Challenge held by the Department of Energy is ongoing, with the final competition next month. Two UNH colleges are among the 37 schools with finalist teams, some from as far as Pakistan, Peru and South Korea. The goal is to "create...

There are 10 different bills being considered by the Maine legislature right now about the state's laws against large (over 3 acre) open-pit mining. The reason: There's a whole bunch of lithium available near the New Hampshire border. One problem, as I learned from an...

A housing/development site called Realtyhop.com took data from 2022 and data from the 1970 census to compare median house prices with median household income to create a "multiplier". The higher the figure the harder it is to buy a house. The full study is here. Data...

The key to a chatbot's usefulness is the data it is trained on. A professor at Dartmouth's business school demonstrates that by creating a chatbot TA to answer student questions.  First, Shumsky created a knowledge base in Cody—an AI coding assistant, or online...

On Monday, Feb. 26, N.H. Department of Transportation began posting state highways, limiting heavy trucks on roads to reduce breakup of pavement from frost heaves. Those nasty bumps are created when water freezes and thaws in a warm/cold cycle, the same pattern that...

From Dartmouth Health: A case of misidentification and rush to judgment on social media has led to false accusations of racism and threats of violence against an innocent New Hampshire doctor and his family. Andrew R. Spector, MD, a highly respected Dartmouth Health...

(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 Feb. 25. *** *** Snap to Grid Bracket for a Sprinlker Support Assembly ASC...

NH Business Review has a long article looking at the debate in the state over the effect of carbon credits on the timber industry. You can read it here. Carbon harbored in standing trees has become a virtual commodity in the form of credits traded on global markets...

Some Dartmouth researchers are using "natural language processing—artificial intelligence techniques focused on human linguistics—to extract meaningful information from health-related social media interactions" and are trying it out on "posts from a Reddit forum where...