Rite-Solutions awarded $60.7M, 5-year naval contract
MIDDLETOWN – Rite-Solutions Inc., an engineering and information technology company, has been awarded a $60.7 million, five-year contract to support the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s...
URI Research Foundation’s Rumsey, CIC’s Messier among PBN’s 2024 C-Suite Awards...
PROVIDENCE – Peter Rumsey, chief business development officer for the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation, has been named the 2024 Career Achiever for...
Robotic startup blazing new trail for fire planning
When Erin Linebarger and her partner first entered the XPRIZE Rainforest competition, she was planning on developing robotics that fly just below the rainforest’s...
URI hoping to close state’s fintech gap with cross-border alliance
In the relatively nascent sphere of financial technology, Rhode Island – echoing its relationship to the biotech industry – hasn’t caught up with neighboring...
When it comes to AI, we’ve been here before
A room-sized computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced in 1958 in a brief news story buried in The...
PBN summit: Life sciences, blue economy growth face challenges in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Justin Fallon, a professor of neuroscience, psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, co-founded his company, Bolden Therapeutics Inc., in Rhode Island....
Millions wagered in first days since iGaming launch in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Bally's Corp.'s Rhode Island iGaming platform had 1,575 account registrations in the first three days of operation and took $2.6 million in...
Was it a good idea for Rhode Island to allow online...
Rhode Island on March 5th became the seventh state to offer online casino gaming.
Adults must be 21 or older to play slots and table...
Cyber Sessions: Understanding the risks of state-sponsored threats
(Editor’s note: This is the 20th installment of a monthly column on the growing number of cyberthreats facing businesses of all sizes and what...
Providence traffic and engineering permits to go digital
PROVIDENCE – The process behind traffic and engineering permits will soon take place exclusively online, city officials announced.
With the shift, Providence will process all...