Netflix has chosen New Mexico as the site of a new U.S. production hub and is in final negotiations to buy an existing multimillion-dollar studio complex on the edge of the state’s largest city, government and corporate leaders announced Monday. It’s the company’s first purchase of such a property, and upcoming production work in Albuquerque […]
Albuquerque Weighs Getting More Power from Solar Sources
New Mexico’s largest city could be joining dozens of other communities that have set goals to get more of their electricity from renewable resources in the coming years, a movement that has swept cities from the U.S. and Canada to Germany. The Albuquerque City Council will consider a resolution at Monday evening’s meeting that calls […]
Feds Invest Nearly $7M In Small Business To Boost Clean Tech
The federal government is investing nearly $7 million in 33 small businesses across the country to build partnerships with national laboratories in hopes of speeding up development of clean energy technology, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday. The selected businesses represent only a fraction of the hundreds that applied to participate in the first round of […]
Possible Change in Nuke Lab Contract Could Affect Taxes
Tucked into the mountains of northern New Mexico is one of the nation’s wealthiest counties, home to scientists, engineers and other contractors who have kept a federal laboratory that was the birthplace of the atomic bomb humming for decades. However, the state and community of Los Alamos — long bankrolled partly by millions of dollars […]
New Mexico Community Marks Opening of Manhattan Project Park
Residents of a once secret government city in northern New Mexico marked the beginnings of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park on Wednesday with the opening of a new visitor center. A crowd of Los Alamos County elected leaders, military veterans, history buffs and officials with the National Park Service and Los Alamos National Laboratory […]
Nuclear Waste Drums Appear Stable After Signs of Reactions
Dozens of drums of radioactive waste at one of the nation’s premier weapons laboratories are stable after some showed signs of chemical reactions over the past year, according to federal officials. The drums are being closely monitored after a chemical reaction inside a container with similar contents caused a breach in February 2014, resulting in […]
Atari’s ‘E.T.’ Game Joins Smithsonian Collection
One of the “E.T.” Atari game cartridges unearthed this year from a heap of garbage buried deep in the New Mexico desert has been added to the video game history collection at the Smithsonian. Museum specialist Drew Robarge made the announcement Monday in a blog post. He included a photograph of the crinkled cartridge along […]
Death of a Supercomputer
It’s the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world’s fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday. The reason? The world of supercomputing is evolving and Roadrunner has […]
Once the world’s fastest supercomputer, Los Alamos lab decides to decommission Roadrunner
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world’s fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday. The reason? The world of supercomputing is […]