Though useful, technology will not replace brainpower lost to Trump administration cuts With the Trump administration making sweeping cuts to staff and research grants at science-related agencies, artificial intelligence could offer a tempting way to keep labs going, but scientists say there are limits to the technology’s uses. The Trump-appointed leaders of The National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services have moved to cut...

Despite hostility from the new Trump administration, electric vehicles will eventually become a major part of the nation’s vehicle fleet, experts and researchers say. “There’s not an automaker out there that I have spoken with, or a supplier out there, who said that electrification in some form or fashion isn’t going to be part of the future,” said Todd Cassidy, a managing director at investment firm Brown Gibbons Lang & Company who specializes in the auto market. “It’s just how soon it’s...

State Sen. Daniel Verdin, of South Carolina, has spent the last month feeling optimistic about his cryptocurrency bill that proposes the state begin accepting digital currencies and become a friendlier place for digital asset mining. He knows an issue like cryptocurrency isn’t an easy sell here — “the easy default position in a state like South Carolina is just to be conservative by nature,” he said. Though he calls himself a “technological dinosaur,” the Republican lawmaker said he sees...