Energy
Maryland watchdog urges rejecting BGE’s $156 million rate hike
Maryland's utility consumer advocate has asked state regulators to reject Baltimore Gas and Electric's request for a $156.1 million increase in electric…
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Hugo Rojas is the editor of GCN. With a Master of Science in Engineering, he specializes in technology, data, and science, and brings a human-centered perspective informed by psychology.
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Society
A coffee machine chat eats nearly 2 hours of the average office worker’s day, and new accounting puts the national price tag at $1.5 trillion a year
A coffee pot gurgles in the break room while two coworkers linger over mugs, trading weekend plans instead of walking straight back…
Automotive
Microchip and Elektrobit team up on vehicle software tools
Microchip Technology and Elektrobit announced a partnership on October 15 to simplify software development for automakers and suppliers building on Microchip's automotive…
Automotive
Samsung reportedly shifts automotive chip engineers to AI work
Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun moving engineers out of its automotive chip division and into artificial intelligence processor development, according to industry…
Energy
A Wisconsin coal plant last produced power eight years ago, and residents will keep paying its bill until 2039, adding up to nearly a billion dollars statewide
The smokestacks at Pleasant Prairie have not released a wisp of steam since 2018, the turbines silent, the coal piles long gone.Yet…
Technology
Google opens disaster forecasting code as GitHub repositories to developers
Google published a new white paper this week detailing how it is opening up the source code and model weights behind several…
Automotive
A hands-free highway system leans on 220,000 digital map tiles instead of one giant file, and a Michigan automaker pushes fresher road data three times more often
A driver on an interstate outside Denver lets go of the wheel, and the car keeps itself centered without complaint. Under the…
Automotive
A hands free highway system works on 750,000 miles of pre scanned pavement across the US and Canada, but it still refuses to drive anywhere off that map
A driver's hands rest loose in their lap while the wheel turns itself through a highway curve. Above that wheel, a tiny…
Society
Survey finds most Americans unhappy with their commute options
A new national survey finds that most Americans, whether they drive, ride transit or have no reliable way to get around at…
Society
Office occupancy hits new high but only on three weekdays
Office occupancy across America's largest cities has climbed to one of its highest levels since the pandemic began, but the gains are…
Technology
A satellite broadband fleet reached just 396 spacecraft by its own July deadline, far short of the 1,616 required, and a federal regulator let it keep flying with weaker spectrum rights
A rocket lifts off from a Florida coast pad carrying two dozen boxy satellites stacked like crates in a cargo hold.Hundreds of…
Technology
A broadband satellite fleet sat near 400 craft against a deadline requiring 1,618, and a federal regulator let the shortfall slide while stripping its spectrum priority against a rival already in orbit
A rocket lifts off from a Florida coast at night, its fairing packed with two dozen flat satellites. The constellation they join…