Technology

Fitchburg State University announced on Monday it is launching a new bachelor’s degree program in digital media innovation.

A new technology company is coming to Marlborough, as part of its expansion into the electric vehicle market.

Lane Harrison, associate professor in the computer science department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded $747,283 by the National Science Foundation for his work evaluating the effectiveness of data visualizations.

Three Central Massachusetts companies were included in a group of 15 Massachusetts manufacturing companies awarded a total $3.4 million in grants from The Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program.

Bose has released its next generation of noise-canceling earbuds, a line the company said Thursday will result in the world’s best noise cancellation from any headphone, banded or in-ear.

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space division has been awarded a Federal Aviation Administration contract with a ceiling value of $375 million over 10 years. 

Technology firm Xceedance has opened its new global headquarters at 1 Mercantile St. in Worcester, the former Unum building.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Patricia Zhang Musacchio has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Institutes of Health for her research creating a process to help scientists create new drugs.

Four Gannett-owned local newspapers, which were closed or announced to be closing, will be acquired by New Jersey firm, CherryRoad Media Inc. and will return to, or continue operation.

SK ecoplant, the environmental division of Korean holding company SK Inc., has made a $50 million investment in Westborough’s Ascend Elements to help commercialize the firm’s trademarked Hydro-to-Cathode direct precursor synthesis process technology, Ascend announced on Thursday.