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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...
TEST FLIGHT: Erin Linebarger flies a prototype robotic drone in Newport. The drone was developed by Robotics 88 Inc., the company she co-founded with Tyler Lane to assist with prescribed fire planning, which involves controlled burns to remove dead and harmful vegetation to prevent the spread of wildfires and allow for new growth.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

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...
FINTECH ­COLLABORATOR: University of Rhode Island assistant professor H. Zafer Yuksel believes having URI join the Mass Fintech Hub will provide big benefits to Rhode Island students studying financial technology. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
Danielle Williams

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...
JIM OWENS, second from left, Nautilus Defense LLC principal, speaks during one of two panel discussions at Providence Business News' Emerging Industries Summit at the Providence Marriott on Wednesday. Also on the panel is, from left, Anthony Baro, E2SOL LLC managing principal; Jeanine Boyle, Inspire Environmental Inc. CEO; Nishita Roy-Pope, Tribe Academy LLC founder and CEO; Marc Parlange, University of Rhode Island president; Stephen Piper, lead client partner, state of Rhode Island, IBM Consulting. URI Research Foundation Executive Director Christian Cowan, standing at right, was the moderator. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

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...
BALLY'S CORP. built a 4,000-square-foot studio for the iGaming program that uses live dealers for the table games. / COURTESY BALLY'S CORP.

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...
Jason Albuquerque

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...
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