Technology

The money will help clerks replace voting machines whose contracts expire in 2027.

Former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and Republican candidate for governor, Tom Leonard, says he's concerned that the energy these centers use will drive up utility rates.

Michael Carbonara's name appears on the permit application and various business documents in connection with a bitcoin mine in the eastern Upper Peninsula. A local school is suing the operation over the noise being produced by the super computers.

The new no-cellphone policy across all schools means “I’m not being bothered,” Lake High School Ryleigh Foster said. “The detachment, it feels good.”

A growing number of law enforcement agencies are using artificial intelligence, a U-M study finds. That includes automated license plate readers, facial recognition technology and other AI tools. The Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police says they won’t replace humans.

A contract worker at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant fell into a reactor cavity on Tuesday while performing work inside the containment building.

Officials say the chatbots are not going to replace dispatch workers but rather help them manage calls.

Virtual fencing uses GPS collars, sounds and electrical cues to move cattle across a landscape. Along with saving ranchers time, researchers say this new technology can help protect, and create, wildlife habitat.

Indigenous Michiganders can compete for thousands of dollars of funding for a startup idea.

A school in the eastern UP is holding off on an expansion project to build two new classrooms and welcome 40 new students because of noise pollution from a nearby bitcoin mining farm. Residents are calling for the facility to shut up or shut down and move.