1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (768+ words) The Windward Planning Commission on Thursday deferred action until October on a bill intended to ban artificial intelligence data centers. Bill 170 was forwarded to Planning Director Jeff Darrow and both the windward and leeward commissions by the Hawaii County Council’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (241+ words) Pause construction of the cell tower in Papa‘ikou Residents of Papa‘ikou deserve a meaningful voice when significant infrastructure is proposed in the heart of their community. A cell tower is now being constructed in a residential area of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (294+ words) Division Chief of Kentucky’s Consumer and Senior Protection Chris Lewis, Colorado’s Chief Trial Counsel Jason Slothouber, and Deputy Attorney General at California Department of Justice Megan O’Neill leave the federal courthouse on Tuesday, where a trial over allegations that Meta…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (338+ words) Regarding cell tower project in Papaikou I understand the anxiety being expressed regarding the cell tower in Papaikou (Tribune-Herald, Aug. 2), but it’s important to separate emotion from fact. A substantial rebuttal already exists from both the Planning Department and Verizon…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (692+ words) An underwater fiber optic cable system would connect the six main Hawaiian islands. Green lines indicate the path of the cable and yellow squares show the landing points of the cable. Plans are underway to improve internet access across the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (900+ words) A Meta data center is shown in 2025, in Covington, Ga. U.S. technology companies in recent years have been building dozens of power-hungry data centers to develop artificial intelligence. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times) A Hawaii County Council Committee on Tuesday…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (961+ words) Hawaii parents will begin receiving notices from their children’s schools about a new statewide cellphone policy that will restrict when students can use their phones on campus beginning this fall. Under the Board of Education policy adopted Feb. 12, elementary and…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (712+ words) A state Senate committee deferred a bill last month that would have banned student cellphone use at public schools statewide after the Hawaii Board of Education adopted similar — yet more flexible — rules. House Bill 1559 sought to prohibit pupils from using…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (401+ words) Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users. Meta spokesperson…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (944+ words) A phone is shown on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, part of the zoomer-to-boomer hotline experiment by Matter Neuroscience. (via Matter Neuroscience / via The New York Times) A person stands near a phone at a senior living complex in Reno, Nev.,…...