Technology

Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 45 attorneys general calling on federal officials to permanently permit doctors to prescribe a drug to treat opioid use disorder during telehealth visits.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals of Marlborough will lay off 360 of its 1,200 employees, effective Jan. 13.

Embue, a Worcester-based startup that works with property owners to make buildings more energy and operationally efficient, raised $2.3 million in seed money.

Definitive Healthcare Corp., a publicly-traded company based in Framingham, specializing in market intelligence, named Jon Maack to be the company’s new president.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named “Grace” Jinliu Wang as its 17th president, becoming the first person of color to lead WPI and succeeding Laurie Leshin, who left WPI for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in May.

Thirty students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute will participate in nonprofit AI4ALL’s College Pathways program, with no cost to them, which encourages diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence and explores the impact of diversity in the field, according to an Oct. 24 release by the school.

The once humble battery is becoming more and more important as we try to move away from fossil fuels to power our lives, and specifically to power how we move across the earth.

Select Worcester COVID-19 booster clinics will provide $75 gift cards to those who get vaccinated, through a program coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Worcester technology company ComputerVault has reached a distribution partnership with Arrow Electronics, Inc.

A Holyoke developer has proposed Gateway Park III, a five-story, 125,000-square-foot laboratory and office building in Worcester.