Technology

Century Link Service Expected To Be Restored Wednesday

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Staff Report:

It is reported on the County’s website that the Century Link internet service outage that has affected the townsite since mid-morning is expected to be restored Wednesday morning.

In response to today’s cell phone and internet outage, which was caused by a third party contractor damaging a Lumen line on N.M. 4 between Los Alamos and White Rock, Lumen Internal Communications Senior Manager Allison Cameron said, “Our technicians are working hard to fix a fiber cut disruption due to third-party construction, affecting some customers near White Rock, New Mexico. Read More

LANL: Research Unravels Mysteries Of Lightning’s Origins

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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are studying the origins of lightning. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in triggering lightning flashes; the research was published in the journal JGR Atmospheres.

“Scientists still don’t fully understand how lightning starts in thunderstorms,” said Xuan-Min Shao, of Los Alamos’ Electromagnetic Sciences and Cognitive Space Applications group and lead author of the new study. “Using our 3D radio frequency mapping and polarization Read More

SFCC And KSFR Announces Repeater Station KSQR Improves Signal In Northern New Mexico

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The KSQR transmitter tower in Questa. Courtesy/SFCC

SFCC News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) and KSFR announces the expansion of the station’s signal through the activation of the repeater station KSQR Questa/Taos broadcasting its programming at 91.3 FM.

The new transmitter tower in Questa has made it possible for listeners in Questa, Taos, Red River and Española to enjoy listening to KSFR’s programming with a much better signal.

KSFR’s General Manager Tazbah McCullah said, “We’re excited that our dynamic programming is now available to an estimated 8,000 more listeners Read More

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Makes First Visit To Los Alamos National Laboratory … Calls It America’s ‘National Security Brain Trust’

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DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Site tour covered Weapons, AI, Supercomputing and more

DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick.

During his inaugural visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory on Feb. 24, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told staff and leadership his administration believes Los Alamos is the nation’s Read More

Rural Students In Four Counties To Get High-Speed Internet

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CNM News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Today, the Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) announced it has awarded $5,531,865 in Student Connect grants to two internet providers and a non-profit to help rural students and school staff gain access to high-speed internet.

The three awards come as part of OBAE’s $25 million Student Connect program, and these latest projects could provide broadband service to more than 1,200 rural students in four counties. 

“These grants will help change students’ lives in these remote parts of the state,” Drew Lovelace, OBAE’s acting director said. “Thousands of Read More

Governor Announces Partnership With BorderPlex Digital

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

STATE News:

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Feb. 25 a partnership with BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC that will position New Mexico as a leader in digital infrastructure to power the technology of tomorrow. 

This partnership will bring 1,000 jobs to New Mexico, drive renewed investment in digital infrastructure, and spur economic growth in the region. The announcement includes a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the State of New Mexico and BorderPlex Digital Assets.

BorderPlex Digital’s first integrated Digital Infrastructure Campus Read More

Tales Of Our Times: EPA Warns Of Iran, China Waging Cyberwar On U.S. Water Facilities

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Ancient Persia had a place on history’s pathway that brought the technology and culture of acequias for water usage from the Middle East to Morocco to Moorish Spain and eventually to hundreds of villages in Northern New Mexico. An “acequia” is a ditch system of irrigation that works by gravity and to this day is still managed by its users. The name itself goes back thousands of years to the Arabic.

But aspects change. Modern Iran is pure trouble for the more recent water systems in our nation. To update us, the U.S. EPA offers Read More

Los Alamos-Based UbiQD Expands Solar Innovation With Acquisition Of BlueDot Photonics

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QCD on flexible film. Courtesy/UbiQD

Courtesy/UbiQD

UbiQD News:

UbiQD, Inc., the New Mexico-based leader in quantum dot (QD) technology and manufacturing, today announced the acquisition of substantially all assets of BlueDot Photonics, Inc. (BlueDot), including its groundbreaking perovskite-based quantum cutting technology. The deal also enabled UbiQD to secure exclusive rights to BlueDot’s associated intellectual property, originally developed at the University of Washington and licensed from CoMotion.

By leveraging BlueDot’s innovative doped perovskite materials, Read More

Celebrate Engineers Week With Lecture By Pramod Khargonekar On AI And Engineering Feb. 19 At Fuller Lodge 

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Pramod Khargonekar

The community is invited to celebrate Engineers Week with a free public lecture by Pramod Khargonekar of the University of California, Irvine, 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19 at Fuller Lodge.

Khargonekar, the vice chancellor for research and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will present “Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era”. As automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue their remarkably rapid development, it is expected that many facets of work and lives of workers will be impacted.

In this talk, Read More

Robinson: A Bigger Conversation About Water

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Service

For the two sponsors of the Strategic Water Supply bill now before the Legislature, this is personal.

Rep. Susan Herrera, D-Española, said she gets asked frequently why she’s carrying the governor’s controversial bill. She explains that her district is rural and agricultural.

“Eighty percent of the people coming to me with problems have water problems,” she told the House Agriculture, Acequia and Water Resources Committee. “Climate change is real. I’ve seen things in the last five years I never thought were possible…

“This Read More