In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...

Rhode Island Energy, the state's largest utility, is well underway on their $153 million program to install approximately 540,000 smart electricity meters around the state. These advanced meters will ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

A smart electric meter at a National Grid customer’s home. Customers can track usage through the utility’s website. ALBANY — National Grid is in the process of installing so-called smart meters at the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meter, a leading provider of internet infrastructure solutions for the enterprise, today announced it raised $170 million in a Series C funding round led by Hemant ...

Chicago's infamous deal to privatize the city's parking meters could soon cost taxpayers another $15.5 million to settle three yearslong disputes with the company that now owns the meters. City ...

A newly released audit shows revenue generated by Chicago's privatized parking meters set a new record in 2024. NBC 5 Investigates dug deep into the deal to privatize Chicago's meters. Our main ...

As nights have gotten brighter, the list of health problems linked to artificial lighting has gotten longer, from insomnia to cancer. Lighting in urban areas like Chicago (shown) has gotten brighter ...

Stylish, well-made, fun to use. Nice and responsive OLED monochrome screen. Good speaker and microphone quality. Lets you properly ditch a smartphone—if you’re on the right carrier. Very expensive.

They’re called smart meters. And both Con Edison and NYSEG utility companies say they are a way for customers to keep watch on energy use and to save money. Con Edison said on its website it has ...

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. The ...

Introducing the Datacolor LightColor meter. Measures all types of lighting + color temperature, wirelessly. Streams data to your phone in real-time via its free app. Datacolor today announced the ...