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Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Kick, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Reddit, Threads and X applications are displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken on Dec. 9, 2025. (REUTERS/Hollie Adams/Illustration//File Photo)
Jan 26, 2026

Meta, TikTok, YouTube to stand trial on youth addiction claims

Meta, TikTok and YouTube will face courtroom scrutiny over allegations that their platforms are fueling a youth mental health crisis.

An automated bus, produced by the company Beep, sits outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 14, 2026. (Rachel Weiner/The Washington Post)
Jan 21, 2026

Officials showed off a robo-bus in DC. It got hit by a Tesla driver.

An automated bus was rear-ended in Washington, D.C., during a U.S. Department of Transportation self-driving vehicle demonstration.

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics announced plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Rockville. (State of Maryland)
Jan 5, 2026

Biologics manufacturing facility to open in Rockville

Samsung Biologics, a biotechnology company based in South Korea, announced plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Rockville.

The former UAW-GM Center for Human Resources complex on Detroit's east riverfront is now called The Icon. (The USA TODAY network via Reuters)
Dec 19, 2025

Maryland tech firm aims to fill 800 jobs at future Detroit HQ

Maryland-based defense and cybersecurity firm Eccalon plans to move its headquarters to Detroit, invest $71M and create up to 800 jobs.

Community College of Baltimore County announced its Dental Hygiene program is the first of its kind in the nation to integrate immersive virtual reality simulation training into its curriculum. (CCBC)
Dec 2, 2025

CCBC launches VR training for dental hygiene program

CCBC announced its dental hygiene program is the first in the U.S. to merge immersive virtual reality simulation training into its curriculum. 

Explore the essential tactics your 2026 marketing budget must include—from brand trust to AI, first-party data, and multi-channel strategy.
Dec 2, 2025

Read This Before You Finalize Your 2026 Budget: 6 Game-Changing B2B Tactics

As you prepare to lock in your 2026 marketing budget, one thing is clear: the landscape is changing too quickly to rely on last year’s playbook. Evolving trade policies, rapid advancements in AI, shifting buyer expectations, and fluctuating market conditions mean that what worked before may not work in 2026. Before you commit your dollars, make sure your strategy reflects the realities of the ye[...]

The Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore is shown in October 2024. (Ian Round/The Daily Record)
Dec 1, 2025

Big Tech lawsuit over MD ‘Kids Code’ can move forward, judge rules

A Big Tech lawsuit against Maryland over its 2024 “Kids Code,” a law intended to protect the data and privacy of minors, is moving forward.

Robotic Hand Holding Miniature Shopping Cart Filled With Many Cargo Boxes Against Blue Technology Background (Depositphotos)
Nov 28, 2025

As AI reshapes shopping, retailers try to change how they’re seen online

Big retailers traditionally spend millions on attracting eyeballs for the holiday season. Now, they're looking to get noticed by AI.

Rendering of the Chantilly data center. (Courtesy of Penzance)
Nov 25, 2025

MD companies working on new AWS data center in Virginia

Two Maryland companies are involved with construction of a new data center in Virginia that was fully leased by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

TEDCO invests $500K in College Park-based OmniSpeech
Nov 25, 2025

TEDCO invests $500K in College Park-based OmniSpeech

TEDCO announced a $500,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in OmniSpeech, a company based in College Park. 

In a report, the two most commonly cited reasons for layoffs last month are cost-cutting and artificial intelligence. (Josephine Johnson/Capital News Service graphic)
Nov 21, 2025

Rising layoffs in MD and US linked to rise of AI

Layoffs in Maryland are up nearly 30%, and AI is among the top ten reasons given by employers, according to a report.

"I figured that there had to be somebody advocating for human creativity rather than things coming from AI," said Nate Sabet, founder and president of the Artists Against AI Club at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg. (Ghaiesha Legrand/Capital News Service)
Nov 20, 2025

This MD teen was concerned about AI’s impact on creativity. So he started a club.

Students at a Montgomery County high school are pushing back against the loss of human creativity represented by artificial intelligence.