Technology

The House approved Senate Bill 4 with broad bipartisan support. Lawmakers will next consider tax breaks for semiconductor companies.

Feeling pressure from labor shortages, some farmers are betting on robots to be the fruit pickers of the future.

A bipartisan bill before the Legislature would make Oregon the latest state to block the popular video-sharing app from government devices.

The Portland City Auditor has opened an investigation into ShotSpotter for possibly violating city lobbying codes, according to an official in the auditor’s office.

Alchemy is weighing options for current students of a potential teach-out plan, tuition refunds or referrals to other programs.

Portland city officials last week quietly reversed course on a decision to avoid a competitive bid process and launch a gunshot detection pilot program with ShotSpotter, a company critics say dramatically oversells its capabilities.

Text messages between a Portland Police Bureau officer and a ShotSpotter representative suggest a cozy relationship helped pave the way for the city’s decision to pilot the gunshot detection technology. The mayor’s office is piecing together a proposal for city council’s consideration that would award a contract for the trial run to ShotSpotter. Emails indicate the city plans to forgo a competitive bidding process, despite a concerted effort by competitor EAGL Technology to be taken seriously by city officials.

A partnership between Hacienda CDC and Verizon is bringing high-tech learning centers to three Portland neighborhoods

A team of University of Washington engineers and computer scientists developed a way using 3D printing technology that could make industrial assembly lines more nimble and versatile.

The program provides a pathway to jobs in the semiconductor industry. But it's starting small.