The all-seeing devices have many valuable uses, but some companies are uneasy about selling them for doing such tasks as military activity, spying on citizens or lie detection.
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Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Maine about to get a humid, scorching prelude to summer
Monday’s daytime high temperatures will hit 90 degrees, with the possibility of severe thunderstorms.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England, News, Schools and Education
Leaders of embattled Massachusetts college may face subpoenas
A panel of lawmakers wants answers on whether Mount Ida College tried to conceal its financial woes.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Food comes fast as robots whip up the meals at Boston restaurant
Although the new eatery’s system may be more a high-tech novelty than a machine with artificial intelligence, more such automation is likely headed for the fast-food sector in coming years.
Posted inBusiness
Amazon expansion includes new office, 2,000 jobs in Boston
The jobs are expected to be in cutting-edge technologies, including robotics, cloud computing and machine learning.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Boston area casino drops name of alleged harasser
What was to be Wynn Boston Harbor will be Encore Boston Harbor.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Massachusetts court strikes down ban on stun guns
The state’s highest court said the law violated the Second Amendment.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Maine Crime, News, Politics
Lawyers for Eves, LePage make their cases in federal court
Both sides present oral arguments to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about the governor’s right to withhold funding to a charter school because of a hiring dispute involving Eves.
Posted inNew England, News
Massachusetts power outages could last several days
Schools across the region remained closed while several shelter warming centers opened.
Posted inBoston Bruins, Sports
Bruins score 3 in third, pull away to beat Islanders, 5-1
Boston improves to 7-0-2 in its last nine games Tuesday in New York.