• Lumine wins auction for Casa Systems wireless assets

    Lumine Group emerged as the winner of a hotly contested auction for Casa Systems' 5G core and RAN assets after outbidding rival Skyvera.

  • NASA to hoist its sail: Solar sail mission gets ready for launch

    A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.

  • Quest operating system: Meta opens Quest operating system to third-party device makers

    Meta Platforms is sharing its Quest headset's operating system with rival device makers, including Microsoft, for the first time, it said on Monday, as it works to extend its influence over the emerging virtual and mixed reality industry. The move will allow partner companies to build their headsets using Meta Horizon OS, a rebranded operating system that brings capabilities like gesture recognition, passthrough, scene understanding and spatial anchors to the devices that run on it, the company...

  • ACS3: Refining Sail Deployment

    Rocket Lab, a launch service provider based in Long Beach CA, launched a rideshare payload on April 23 from its launch complex in New Zealand. I’ve been tracking that launch because aboard the Electron rocket was an experimental solar sail that NASA is developing to study boom deployment. This is important stuff, because the lightweight materials we need to maximize payload and performance are evolving, and so are boom deployment methods. Hence the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3),...

  • Bankruptcies for April 24, 2024

    Bankruptcy information gathered from cases filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Duluth.

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    Ask a lawyer: What to do before and after confronting bankruptcy

    Ebele Ebonwu, an associate in Gordon Feinblatt's Financial Services Group, offers advice on how to avoid bankruptcy and how to manage it once it has been filed, including the importance of a good attorney and reorganizing your finances.

  • Joann won't close any locations after filing for bankruptcy

    One of the largest retailers selling arts and crafts products, Joann said it has reduced its debt to its lowest levels in over a decade.

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    Deferred HECO bill worries some about bankruptcy

    The union representing electrical workers is now weighing in on a controversial Hawaiian Electric bill (SB 2922), that died in session last week.

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    Active storm system moving in this weekend

    Friday becomes mainly cloudy and breezy with scattered late day rain showers and a high of 58.We are on Storm Watch as two active storm systems will sweep throu

  • Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

    We are calling on countries around the world to pressure Israel to allow us “free and safe passage” to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

  • Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

    From the U.S., there are about 35 participants. Leading the group, and key to the international coalition, is 77-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel and State Department diplomat Ann Wright. After quitting the State Department in protest over the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Wright has put her diplomatic skills to good use in helping to pull together a motley group of internationals. Her co-organizer from the U.S. is Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American attorney who is a co-founder of the...

  • Spilka: Massachusetts tolling system “not fair at all”

    As the transportation secretary's recent comments about imposing tolls for drivers crossing into Massachusetts continue to attract fire from political adversaries and a conservative watchdog group, they have also won a measure of support from one of the most powerful lawmakers on Beacon Hill.