Oregon

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to weigh in on whether homeless individuals have the right to camp on public property. The issue is the biggest SCOTUS case in decades on the rights of the homeless, and the decision has the potential to impact how cities across the U.S. handle the homelessness crisis. Grants Pass, located in southwestern Oregon with a population of nearly 40,000, requested that the high court review a lower court decision that ruled it unconstitutional to punish homeless residents for camping on…

Google today issued an open letter voicing support of pending Oregon right to repair legislation. The note, penned by Devices and Services Director of Operations Steven Nickel, calls the proposal “a compelling model for other states to follow.” Google also used the opportunity to issue a white paper aimed at connecting repairability claims with its broader sustainability goals. The document also, naturally, gives the company opportunity to talk up existing device longevity promises, including the seven years of…

It has been more than two days since Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 made an emergency landing after a section of the aircraft ripped off midair, leaving a hole in the plane at 16,000 feet. Here’s what we know so far about an investigation that officials from the National Transportation Safety Board opened into the incident.At this point, the probe is focused on the Alaska incident and not on a broader set of aircraft, such as separate versions of the 737 MAX or other planes. The focus could change as evidence surfaces about…

The Biden administration announced an agreement Thursday to provide $162 million in federal funding to Microchip Technology to expand production of computer chips domestically, the second tranche of money doled out from a bipartisan law signed in 2022. The Commerce Department announced preliminary terms with the Arizona-based manufacturer, which will allow the company to “significantly increase its U.S. production of microcontroller units (MCUs) and other specialty semiconductors built on mature-nodes critical to…

The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it plans to award Microchip Technology $162 million in government grants to step up US production of semiconductors and microcontroller units (MCUs) key to the consumer and defence industries.The funds will allow Microchip to triple production of mature-node semiconductor chips and microcontroller units at two US factories, officials said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

CORVALLIS, Ore. —  Adem Bona emerged from behind a curtain in a basement hallway, the UCLA center back to his buoyant self after nearly a month of anguish.He smiled. He laughed. He cracked jokes.It felt good to win again. Applause could be heard from inside the Bruins’ locker room Thursday night after they finally had something to celebrate for the first time since late November.“We were talking about it,” Bona said. “It had been a long time since we had laughed after a game.”Everybody wearing blue and gold was in a…

Nearly 7,000 miles away in Portland, Oregon, venture capitalist George Djuric said he was compelled to visit Israel during the country's war with Palestinian militant group Hamas and to pledge support for the high-tech sector.Djuric, chief technology officer at yVentures who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old refugee from Bosnia during the Bosnian war in the mid-1990s, this week joined some 70 other US tech executives and investors on a trip to Israel.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

The pitch for Last Train Home probably isn’t what you’d expect from a PC strategy game. It Adapts the experiences of Czech Legionnaires who had to fight their way across Russia and Siberia during the eve of World War I and the dawn of the Russian Civil War. They went across the country by train, fighting to survive station by station, so they could get on a boat in eastern Russia and get home. Even as someone who enjoys reading up on history, it’s a story I hadn’t heard — and I certainly didn’t expect to learn about…

Veterinarians are working to figure out the cause behind a cluster of respiratory illnesses in dogs across the U.S. Over 200 suspected cases have been documented since late summer, mostly from Oregon. The illness appears to have a low fatality rate, but dogs have experienced prolonged symptoms and haven’t responded well to antibiotics.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelThe Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) seems to be the first major party to have caught wind of the mystery canine…

EUGENE, Ore. —  Lincoln Riley called last season’s team the “least talented” group that he’ll coach at USC. Yet this season’s group has the most losses for any Riley-coached team.USC’s 36-27 loss to No. 6 Oregon on Saturday at Autzen Stadium effectively eliminated the Trojans from Pac-12 championship contention. While not officially knocked out of the conference championship race, USC’s need for Oregon (9-1, 6-1 Pac-12) to drop its final two games along with help from other three-loss teams to force a complicated…