Hiawatha Bray

Lightcraft Technology helps indie filmmakers master digital effects These days, complex machines like cars or airplanes are “built” inside computers long before they reach an assembly line. Why not movies?

Make sure your smartphone and laptop are travel-ready I'm sticking close to home this summer. Not like last year, when I dashed over to the Democratic Republic of Congo for a couple of weeks.

Some electric vehicles can do more than draw power from the electrical grid. They can also put some of it back, to help out the local utility when electric demand surges.

Utilities raise rates in August, but most will dodge the bullet Many — but not most — Massachusetts residents can expect to pay a little more for electricity starting Aug. 1.

For many residents of Western Massachusetts, the proposal to build a massive data center complex in Westfield seems like a nightmare.

Electricity suppliers have charged New England consumers billions of dollars in excess costs over the past decade, helping explain part of the surge

As Massachusetts politicians scramble to respond to public anger over high electric bills, they are reviewing a different way for utilities to

B rockton is the only large city in Massachusetts that hasn't embraced a municipal power-buying scheme aimed at lowering residents' electric bills. But that's about to change.

A host of artificial intelligence leaders, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, published an alarming open letter last week.

As wars in the Middle East and Ukraine drive the price of diesel to record highs, inflation-weary consumers can expect to pay more for practically everything.