Technology

BISMARCK – Along with the traditional ice scrapers, emergency kits and snow tires, North Dakotans are increasingly turning to another tool to meet the challenges of winter travel: their smartphones. The North Dakota Department of Transportation’s mobile app offering road conditions...

STOCKHOLM - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. The insight has been hailed as one...

GRAND FORKS -- North Dakota took the top ranking in a recently released study of economic performance, showing strength in technology fields in the east as well as energy jobs in the west. The Enterprising States report, prepared yearly since 2010 by North Dakota-based Praxis Strategy...

GRAND FORKS -- When floodwaters threatened Clausen Springs Dam on the Sheyenne River in April 2009, forcing the precautionary evacuation of the 55 residents of Kathryn just downstream, the North Dakota National Guard used remote video cameras mounted on Black Hawk helicopters to inspect...

Dickinson High School students may be able to take advantage of tablet technology in their social studies classes next year, if a $113,000 proposal to purchase 150 Microsoft Surface table computers and needed accessories is approved. The Dickinson Public School Board gave an informal...

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Orders for the iPhone 5 topped 2 million in their first 24 hours, more than double the amount of its predecessor over the same period. Apple started taking iPhone 5 orders at 3 a.m. EDT on Friday. The company also says that while most orders will be delivered...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China will send its first woman into space Saturday along with two other astronauts to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming the only third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. Liu Yang, a 34-year-old air force...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- It is billed as the largest fiber-optic Internet connection in North America. Officials say a new broadband network in south central North Dakota covers a 10,000-square mile region, or equal to the size of the state of New Jersey. It will bring high-speed...

DALLAS (AP) -- Junior Woods has a well-practiced routine for conducting business on the road: While driving throughout rural Arkansas, the electronics salesman steals a glance at his cellphone every so often, checking for text messages and emails. "I can keep both hands on the steering...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed executive orders that lay out how far military commanders around the globe can go in using cyberattacks and other computer-based operations against enemies and as part of routine espionage in other countries. The orders detail...

Cell phone users in North Dakota experience trouble with reception in some areas and providers Verizon Wireless and Alltel, which is transitioning to AT&T, claim certain measures are being taken to ensure the best coverage locally. AWTY Maps of Dickinson provides detailed maps and...