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The Amphi Foundation says it will provide free internet for students for at least six months.

Tucson rolling out, taking applications for free wireless internet

The grant-funded free internet access is for those affected by COVID-19.

UA COVID Watch app is now on 30,000 devices

Its effect on the coronavirus pandemic may never be known.

Amphi Foundation funds Wi-Fi for students

Foundation, Cox, Comcast team up for free service.

Science fair goes completely virtual for 2021

SARSEF plans to put 7,000 displays online.

This courtesy image shows an example notification of the Covid Watch Arizona app.

UA launches Covid Watch Arizona app

Developers hope to push it statewide soon.

Covid Watch app part of UA reentry plan

The smartphone app aids in contact tracing.

Consumer watchdog groups are scrambling to keep up with the number of new scams that pop up every day related to COVID-19, from fake cures to sham financial opportunities. The intense focus on the disease, a lack of checks and the speed and anonymity of the internet have combined to help fraud explode, they say.

Tucson moves ahead with public Wi-Fi

Access points funded by pandemic relief funds will serve neighborhoods without broadband.

Interplanetary visitor sweeps past Earth

Bright Neowise comet surprises space scientists in Tucson.

A smart ring is one type of wearable technology that can monitor health in real-time.

Researchers developing wearable technology to fight coronavirus spread

For now, the technology can collect data about vital signs and "augment" a diagnosis, though researchers have bigger goals.

The Bighorn Fire burns in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness near Oro Valley on Saturday, June 6, 2020. The fire was caused by lightning on the evening of June 5, 2020.

Drone flights cost firefighters time in north Tucson mountain blaze

Drone operators could face prison time and fines if they are caught interfering with airborne crews.

This border screen system installed in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was being replaced in 2020 with a 30-foot-high bollard border wall because Border Patrol officials said it was being cut through. Now the new border wall is also being breached.

Border Patrol turns to private industry for ideas to stop border wall breaches

The agency is asking contractors for ideas to "leapfrog current technology."

Arizona sues Google over location tracking practices

The state says the tech giant illegally collected location data.

Hubble space telescope marks 30 years of exploration

The space science landmark received help from the University of Arizona.

Window opens for tribes to seek licenses for internet access

Tribes had pushed to be first in line for the licenses that once were reserved for education institutions.

UA professor John Rutherfoord (3rd from right) with colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider.

UA physicist says many subatomic breakthroughs to come

John Rutherfoord is among researchers using the Large Hadron Collider.

Kaibeto Kneel Down Bread vendor sells Navajo tamales in Kaibeto, Arizona.

New online tool points consumers Native American-owned businesses

The RezRising website and phone app aims to not only draw attention to Native American entrepreneurs, but also change attitudes.

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