Hiawatha Bray
Technology Reporter at The Boston Globe
Tech reporter for the Boston Globe, and author of You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves...makes a great gift!
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Market Basket boycott? The supermarket’s loyalists say they’re ready for a fight. - The Boston Globe
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bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray |Stella Tannenbaum
SOMERVILLE — Faithful shoppers at supermarket chain Market Basket are dismayed by the boardroom coup against chief executive Arthur T.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Sabrina Shankman |Hiawatha Bray
Massachusetts is pumping the breaks on its ambitious goals to shift drivers from gas to electric vehicles, the Healey administration announced Friday. The state will delay by two years the enforcement of a a rule that would have required 35 percent of cars sold to be electric and plug-in-hybrid starting with 2026 models. From there, the percentages had been set to increase annually until all vehicles sold in the state are fully electric in 2035.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray
An Alabama company wants to spend $250 million building fiber connections in over two dozen Massachusetts towns, including Quincy, Beverly and Haverhill. But the company, GoNetspeed, claims that burdensome local regulations are getting in the way. GoNetspeed provides broadband services in eight states, including Maine and Connecticut. These states have a streamlined process for broadband companies seeking to hang optical fiber lines from local utility poles, allowing for quick deployment.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray
If you’re not yet worried about artificial intelligence, now might be a good time to start. You’ve probably grown comfortable with systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Grok, which can analyze complex documents, create original works of art, compose music and write essays, poems and software. But powerful as they are, these systems require a fair amount of human guidance. They constantly need to be told what to do next. But what happens when AIs try to figure more things out on their own?
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray
Natick resident Eric Sellke sells humorous novelty gifts made in China —plastic pickles that yodel or tell jokes, a tiny violin that plays sad songs. But Sellke saw nothing funny in the Trump trade war with China. He described the administration’s 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports as “one of the most disruptive things that ever happened.” But now that the United States has agreed to lower the tariff to 30 percent for at least 90 days, the pressure has eased.
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Trump's China #tariffs threaten disruptions for Mass. retailers https://t.co/0o2y35GIDs via @BostonGlobe
RT @michaelbd: Pope Leo XIV grew up a White Sox fan, so basically has already endured martyrdom a few times.
In the midst of the India Pakistan conflict, a very smart young Indian man speaks the truth.
The adult reporter doesn’t understand the concept of mutually assured destruction but the kid does
