Hanford talk focuses on salmon, sturgeonSalmon, sturgeon and more are the topic of the Aug. 25 edition of the Let’s Talk About Hanford series of virtual science talks.The program is a collaboration with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and will explore the fish found in the Columbia River...
You cannot read the news today without finding another story of a company besieged by a malware infection: their files encrypted, and the company brought to its knees by cybercriminals.We’ve recently seen a large pipeline company forced to shut down all operations and a U.S. government agency suspending operations for...
I imagine historians looking back at the decades spanning 1990-2020 will describe those years as the most unimpressive of the past two centuries in terms of technological progress.In medicine, we witnessed life expectancy plateau and even decline for a period of years. Energy production via fracking became more efficient but...
Inline Computer & Communications in Richland recently donated five laptops to Light of the Valley Baptist School in Belize. The laptops allow the teachers and children to be able to connect to the outside world and increase their educational opportunities, said Greg Hammer, president of the Inline. He said his...
Robert “Bob” SchuetzEnergy Northwest executive Robert “Bob” Schuetz is the new chief executive officer for the Richland-based power cooperative that operates the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant.Schuetz is a 28-year Navy veteran who joined Energy Northwest in 2013 and most recently served as site vice president. He succeeds Brad...
A Kennewick tech startup is transforming the way businesses process their payment transactions, even as coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions threatened its business model.“It’s interesting because we’re focused on brick-and-mortar transactions, so when Covid hit, we thought we were dead,” said Jeff Payne, BlockChyp’s chief technology officer. BlockChyp designs payment terminals...
Terry Brown and his wife, Annie Ackerman-Brown, didn’t develop a business plan or research how they could best help young people in mental anguish when they launched BlessedbyKess.Faith led them to create the nonprofit, which uses virtual reality, or VR, technology to help Tri-Citians reduce stress and improve mental health....
The greater Tri-Cities enjoys a strong technology pulse, but the most readily accessible statistics are scant on the evidence. Brenton-Franklin Trends data, for instance, doesn’t carry one “technology” indicator out of the 175 available. This state of our knowledge is largely due to the difficulties in measuring the economic impact...
A material science pioneer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of three to be named a 2020 distinguished scientist fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.James “Jim” De Yoreo’s award includes $1 million in DOE funding over three years to pursue new research.De Yoreo is...
The pandemic has altered daily life in many ways, some of which may long outlive the current shutdowns.Technological innovations over the past several years have allowed employees to work from home — a shift that was already well underway before the pandemic, but one that has been kicked into hyperdrive...
