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EV Fast Charging Designed for Cold Weather
pictured: University of Michigan student Chloe Acosta plugs in an EV to charge on the North Campus of the University in Ann Arbor. Photo…
Chicago Inno Programs Target Unique Needs
Chicago Innovation Targets Unique Needs With Special Programs Chicago Innovation stands as a beacon of support and growth for the city's…
AI Image Generator Struggles with Skin Color
Are AI Image Generators Improving Skin Color and Racial or Ethnicity Bias? You may have noticed if you already picked up a copy of Cronicle…
What Will Happen With Tech Investing in 2024?
What Will Happen With Tech Investing in 2024? As we step into 2024, the tech investing scene continues to evolve under the influence of…
Announcing Cronicle's New AI Tool Guides for Small Business
Announcing Cronicle's New AI Series for Small Business You may have noticed a lull recently as we switched gears at the beginning of 202…
How VC Funding Is Advancing Life Sciences
Venture Capital's Role in Advancing Life Sciences The life sciences sector has been a beacon of innovation and growth, underpinned by the…
Startup Funding Shifts Industries
Shifting Tides in Startup Funding: From Software to Life Sciences The landscape of startup funding is undergoing a significant…
Another Rushed AI Demo Error
Balancing Innovation and Caution: The Rush of AI to Market and the Future of Personal Technology With the advent of artificial intelligence…
Biden Issues AI Executive Order
Biden Issues Urgent AI Regulation Executive Order In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the line between…
Ampera Desk Bike Review
LifeSpan Launches New Power-Generating Desk Bike for Seated Exercise Our co-founder Archie Cowan who has been working remotely for Amazon…
Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns
Second Wave of 23andMe Data Leaks Sparks Renewed Concerns Just two weeks after an initial data leak, 23andMe, the popular genetic testing…
Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool
Artists Fight Back Against AI With New Data Poisoning Tool A new data poisoning tool known as Nightshade is giving artists an avenue to…
Venture Capital Shifts to Life Sciences
Venture Capital Shift: From Software to Life Sciences The venture capital landscape is a constantly shifting terrain, sensitive to market…
How Investors Are Analyzing AI Startups
How Investors Differentiate Among AI-Driven Companies Just one year ago, AI seemed like a technology that was still trying to find its…
OpenAI Author Lawsuit Sets Tone for AI Copyright Law
Author Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sets The Tone for AI Copyright Law A class action lawsuit against OpenAI has gained attention as a group of…
Making Gen AI Sustainable
Gen AI Has a Sustainability Problem "GenAI," or generative artificial intelligence, has a sustainability problem. While businesses are using…
X (Twitter) Adopts New Business Model
X, Formerly Twitter, Adopts New Subscription Model X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans (Bloomberg) to test three…
Funding Raise for Flexible Manufacturing
Machina Funding Raise for Advanced Manufacturing Flexibility Flexible advanced manufacturing is finally here. Traditionally, changing…
No More Big Funding Rounds for Startups?
No More Big Funding Rounds? Once upon a time, it was a rarity to see startups bring in $100 million or more in a round of funding. These…
Goodhood Auto Interview with CEO Prashant Salla
Turning Passion into Convenience: The Story of Goodhood & Prashant Salla In today's fast-paced world, convenience is king. The demands on…
a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Tech Week New Events for 2023 Ann Arbor's popular tech week a2tech360 is back September 14-22 with favorite events…
University of Michigan Offers First of Its Kind AI Suite
University of Michigan Offers First-of-its-Kind AI Suite ANN ARBOR – As artificial intelligence services are growing exponentially in many…
Ohio X Update
Ohio X Update By Tim Busbey, Cronicle Staff Writer CINCINNATI, Ohio – Cincinnati-based tech startup Beltways recently won the inaugural…
Rivian R1T Tech Review
Rivian R1T Tech Review There cannot be an EV more tricked out with tech than the R1T. Feel free to disagree with us in the comments and let…
Pluie Changes the Diaper Changing Game
The latest and greatest startups to come out of the Midwest can often be found in Chicago, where Chicago Innovation has curated a fantastic…
Digital E-Commerce Tools
This is a guest post by Cronicle Press contributor Dean Burgess. For more information about Dean's work, visit Excitepreneur.net. Must-Have…
Security Startup Censys Beats Tech Industry Benchmarks for Women's Equality
Happy Women's Equality Day. In honor of this event, we are happy to announce that Ann Arbor security startup Censys has surpassed tech…
Clarivate To Acquire Proquest
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest, Creating a Leading Global Provider of Mission Critical Information and Data-Driven Solutions for Science and…
Guilde Launches An App To Simplify Contracting Bids
Detroit's Donavan Wright was a residential real estate investor in several locations he had lived across the U.S., which he "used to help my…
Collaboration Tool Shuffleboard Launches To Make Remote Teamwork More Accessible
Ann Arbor-based Shuffleboard officially launches today, with a 40% discount for anyone looking for a remote team collaboration tool. The…
The Budding Small Businesses Security Scene, With Tenacity Cloud
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Groundspeed Disrupts Insurance Industry By Analyzing More Data through AI
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?
Universities everywhere are trying to trim budgets and plan for virtual instruction in case of a second wave in the Fall 2020 semester, but…
Text Mine COVID-19 Research Using ITHAKA's New Text Mining Service
Text Mining Service For Researching Aggregated Data The idea? Put publicly available datasets all in one place so it's easier for…
ProQuest Offers COVID-19 & SARS/MERS Virus Research Free To Libraries & Academic Research Customers
ProQuest Creates New COVID-19 & SARS/MERS Virus Research Database Free To Library Customers Ann Arbor-based academic research database…
MTRAC: How a Michigan Life Science Startup Is Born
Susan Shore, Ph.D.. Technology aims to remodel neural pathways that cause ringing in ears. Joe Affholter of Michigan State Unversity and…
Finding Joy In Music & Tech with Ki5 Looping Artist and Menlo Engineer Kyler Wilkins
The cover of Ki5's latest album, Looking For The Sun. "I began working at Menlo Innovations in February 2018 as a Software Developer, though…
Human Element, of Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in Michigan, Creates The Kind of Culture They Want To Stay In
Human Element's offices are located at the west end of the Broadway bridge in north Kerrytown, which makes the parking tricky but the…
Michigan's Cybercrime Support Network Talks Security on the Flip Side of Fraud
Kristin Judge, former Washtenaw County Commissioner, is now CEO of the nonprofit CyberCrime Support Network. Courtesy photo. Kristin Judge…
MTEC SmartZone Drives Unique High-Tech Business in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The world requires innovation—now more than ever. Science. Technology. Engineering. Math. Along the wild shores of Lake Superior…
Thank You, Ann Arbor Tech, for 100 Articles!
The founders of Finji Games laughing through an interview about their latest (courtesy photo). Finji's post was one of our most popular, and…
eLab Brings VC Funding to Ann Arbor AI and Machine Learning Startups
eLab Venture Capital Managing Director Doug Neal poses in front of the A2 Startup Garage on Liberty, where he meets with colleagues from Ann…
Censys Announces New Enterprise Platform To Curate Mass Search Data
The Censys Enterprise dashboard, where users can view cloud providers, certificates, hosts, and types of software their companies are…
How To Get Into Tech When You Didn't Start There: An Interview with Mobile Mondays' Rob Baxtresser
It's not uncommon for people with a degree in music to end up in tech, not just for the jobs but because people with musical training often…
Voxel51 Chosen As AI Top Pick To Present at Tech Disrupt 2019
The Voxel51 team, co-founder Jason Corso center. Co-founder and CTO Brian Moore fourth from left in rear. Ann Arbor's Voxel51, an AI startup…
Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults
It's been decades since we did a scavenger hunt, but these days augmented reality seems just the thing to make these old-fashioned games…
Tech Consultancy Llamasoft Announces $10.7 Million Expansion, Adds 70 Jobs
Ann Arbor-based supply chain software development consultancy Llamasoft yesterday announced an expansion that will bring another 70 jobs to…
Pendaran Offers Immersive Experience-Based Systems Thinking Training Program
You enter a classroom. Instead of desks, a virtual workplace is laid out in front of you, including assembly lines, and banks of screens…
Tech-Inclusive Lowers Barriers to People Entering the Tech Industry
An Intro To Programming class put on by Tech-Inclusive. Ronda Bergman pictured left. Courtesy photo. What does tech need more of? What we…
Ann Arbor-based Clinc AI Announces $52 million Series B
A Clinc team tackles a quick meeting in their second-floor office at Cahoots in downtown Ann Arbor the week before the announcement of a $5…
Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software
The Kinetica Labs MotionCapture app allows the user to take a video with a smartphone for upload to analyze ergonomic risk of a worker…
Innovation Not Break Fix with RightBrain Networks
Jamie Begin, founder of RightBrain Networks and DevOps Days Detroit. Courtesy photo. "I guess one of our challenges is that we've been…
Reinvestment & A2 Culture with Jordan Martz of Databricks
The problem with growing Ann Arbor tech faster than it's already growing, according to Databricks Solutions Architect and Partner Jordan…
Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech
Peerstachio is a social platform for connecting students with peers for academic help. In our recent two-part series on the student…
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