Ann Arbor schools will no longer offer open wireless access for privately owned devices like computers, iPods and smart phones, district officials announced Friday. District spokesperson Liz Margolis said public wireless access was eliminated because the drastic increase in personal devices not directly involved in education had overloaded the network, ...
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On Wednesday evening Jonathan Weiner discussed his new book, "Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality." The discussion was part of the University of Michigan's Author's Forum. The College of Literature, Science and the Arts has selected "What makes life worth living?" as its theme for this Fall ...
Twitter is a worldwide short message communications network. It's sent out over a billion messages, ranging in complexity and interestingness upward from "I'm eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich nom nom."Â Some small fraction of the traffic across the network is news, either news processed and produced by news ...
We're a Web site with an intensely local mission. But part of being local is listening to the community, and one thing you've told us is that when it comes to sports coverage, you're very interested in Detroit sports teams. So beginning today, we've added coverage of Detroit Tigers baseball ...
The chief executive of Duke Energy, one of the nation's largest utility companies, will speak at an energy conference next week at the University of Michigan. Jim Rogers, CEO of North Carolina-based Duke Energy, will address the Ross Energy Club's second annual Carbon Symposium on Sept. 18. The Ross Energy ...
Three Ypsilanti teenagers are accused of punching a resident adviser and attempting to rob him outside a dorm on Eastern Michigan University's campus Thursday night. The teens were arrested a short time later.