The Army awarded Palantir Technologies a $480 million contract to expand a data analysis and decision making tool to more military users across the globe. The Maven Smart System is part of Project Maven, the Pentagon’s marquis artificial intelligence program, which ingests and processes data from multiple sources, like satellite imagery and geolocation data, and […]
Are you ready for a shocker? 2024 marks 50 years (!) since the story of Little House on the Prairie leaped out of its books and onto our television screens. Yep, a half-century ago we met Melissa Gilbert as 9-year-old Laura Ingalls. Now, at 59, Gilbert is just as darling as she was bounding down […]
EAST JORDAN — The busy director and co-founder of one of Northern Michigan’s must-see locations, the Raven Hill Discovery Center, was able to pause on her way to purchase mice for snakes and answer some questions. As a former science teacher, Cheri Leach created the one-of-a-kind establishment — a combination art, history, science and children’s museum […]
Jan. 12—ROCHESTER — In the first big real estate deal of 2024, a national firm purchased the Maven apartment complex in downtown Rochester for $37.31 million. Northland Investment Corp. bought the 154-unit, mixed-use complex at 429 S. Broadway from First Broadway Rochester, LLC on Jan. 9, 2024. The Massachusetts-based Northland made a down payment of […]