Clay & Milk reports that lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require net neutrality in Iowa. Iowa House File 2287 would prohibit communications service providers from slowing down internet traffic based on content, applications, services or the use of certain devices. It also would ban interfering with someone’s use of…
From Samsung’s virtual reality experience to robots carrying the Olympic torch, technology has been on display prominently at the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. NBC reports here.
Ames, the northern headwaters of the growing Cultivation Corridor, is looking to bookend the west-side research center — the doubling-in-size Iowa State University Research Park — with the city’s first major industrial park. The man in the middle, Ames Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dan Culhane, said the 1,350-acre industrial park on…
Cognizant, a large tech company with a downtown Des Moines office, is making a $100 million play in STEM with the creation of a nonprofit foundation. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math, and it’s a big deal in Iowa, where the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, Future Ready Iowa,…
Iowa State University’s Keith Vorst is working with major corporations to find new uses for recycled plastics to save money, keep the materials out of landfills and reduce pollution. Vorst, an associate professor of food science and human nutrition, leads the Polymer and Food Protection Consortium. “We’re creating technologies that will have…
Police in Zhengzhou, China, are wearing high-tech sunglasses equipped with facial-recognition technology to check crowds at transit centers and elsewhere for suspects, the Straits Times reported. Human rights groups have questioned the practice, but it has already led to the arrest of seven suspects accused of crimes that ranged from human trafficking…
An innovative co-working/incubator space for Greater Des Moines nonprofits that launched less than a year ago has attracted eight resident organizations and recently gained its first investor — Delta Dental of Iowa. The Telligen Community Initiative Synergy Center, housed at the Iowa Center for Higher Education in Des Moines, is…
Gallup and Northeastern University checked U.S. adults’ thoughts on how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect their lives, their work, educational choices and potential interventions from higher education, government and private industry. Among the key findings of the study, conducted via mail survey of 3,297 from Sept. 15 through Oct. 10, 2017: — Seventy-six…
Revolution, the Washington, D.C.-based investment arm of AOL-founder turned venture capitalist Steve Case, debuted a new “Ecosystem Playbook” last week that includes at least two Des Moines sources, Gravitate’s e-newsletter the Pull reported. The document draws ideas and insights from 33 cities visited on the “Rise of the Rest” bus tours, which stopped in…
Three ISU students have created Bit to Byte, a cryptocurrency funded project to provide learning resources for financially challenged and underrepresented youth. August Domanchuk and Xander Apponi, computer engineering freshmen, and technical communications freshman Jacob Hemmerich want to create student-led communities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).