technology
Five Cambridge and Somerville climate tech companies receive state tax incentive
Somerville’s Form Energy received the majority of a $6 million tax incentive for job creation granted to five climate tech innovation companies in Cambridge and Somerville. Read more MIT will reopen Building 18 Form, which produces high-capacity batteries used for storing renewable energy at utility scale, earlier this year was identified as the recipient of […]
Cambridge, Somerville climate tech incubators receive state grants
Four Cambridge and Somerville climate technology incubators received over $1.3 million in Innovation Ecosystem Program grants to support initiatives that advance climate tech startups through commercialization. Read more Cambridge honors saxophonist Johnny Hodges Cambridge-based incubators Activate Global and The Engine as well as Somerville’s FORGE and Greentown Labs each received $120,000. Activate and Greentown also […]
Massachusetts’s slow adoption of EV chargers through federal program is ‘mystifying’ to transit advocates
For all the concern about lost federal funding courtesy of the Republican trifecta in Washington, Massachusetts still has not deployed a single electric vehicle charger through a Biden-era program that President Trump has left intact. Read more Events this week: Pride, Shakespeare reinvented, & Fresh Pond Day The Bay State is sitting on the roughly $64 […]
State invests $25 million in future MIT “quantum toolbox”
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey stood in a windowless room on the seventh floor of MIT’s Samberg Conference Center and promised the state’s $25 million investment in a Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT would be good for the state. Read more The once familiar bobolink now in decline “The [return on investment] is clear on […]
Somerville, Cambridge incubators receive climate tech grants
Two startup accelerators in Cambridge and Somerville received close to $7 million in Mass Leads Act grants to expand their technology base, in a bid to provide more support to entrepreneurs working on mitigating climate change. Read more On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex Greentown Labs, which bills itself as […]
Council drops ShotSpotter in close vote
The City Council voted Monday night to pull the plug on ShotSpotter, a controversial police surveillance technology in use in Cambridge for more than a decade. The move came after extended public comment and nearly an hour of deliberation, with intense distrust of the current federal administration a factor in approving the policy order. Read more Cambridge […]
Harvard scientist working on technology to find life in space
Since the four-person crew of Artemis II splashed back down to Earth last month, all things space are front of mind for a lot of us. While the space centers in Texas and Florida may be busy poring through the data the astronauts brought back, right here in Cambridge, the quest to learn more about […]
Vending machines dispense photographs and teen art around Cambridge and Somerville
Inside Somerville’s Bow Market, you may stumble across two unusual vending machines. These vending machines don’t dispense foods, drinks, or daily essentials, but instead, dispense stickers designed by local teens and photos of iconic Greater Boston locations. Read more Meet the candidates running for state legislature The viral trend of collecting art from vending machines […]
Harvard scientist working on technology to find life in space
Since the four-person crew of Artemis II splashed back down to Earth last month, all things space are front of mind for a lot of us. While the space centers in Texas and Florida may be busy poring through the data the astronauts brought back, right here in Cambridge, the quest to learn more about […]
Harvard scientist working on technology to find life in space
Since the four-person crew of Artemis II splashed back down to Earth last month, all things space are front of mind for a lot of us. While the space centers in Texas and Florida may be busy poring through the data the astronauts brought back, right here in Cambridge, the quest to learn more about […]