As elite colleges grow more selective, social media lets a new generation of college content creators offer a tantalizing glimpse of life behind the curtain.

The creation of city-owned Internet is being looked at by Somerville city councilors in a version that would go beyond recommendations by the city’s own task force.

Public meetings this week look at development of a Boynton Yards lab building, implementing municipal broadband, city charter changes and affordable housing

With a financial feasibility study of city-owned Internet underway, a network looking more realistic and a new city manager in place, the dynamic Monday at an officials’ roundtable was in some ways flopped from years past: City Manager Yi-An Huang seemed more enthusiastic about municipal broadband than some city councillors.

Public meetings this week look at municipal broadband feasibility, the unhoused and substance issues, Alewife zoning recommendations and more.

Twenty years after we added biotechnology and graphic design as well as space and funding to CRLS technical education, it has been depleted and ignored again.

We have been hearing stories about how robotic cars will be coming soon, but even the industry’s engineers say a safe automated car will be impossible.

LabCentral Ignite’s Golden Ticket program awards companies founded by women and people of color to help “solve for underrepresentation” in biotech industries.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s festivals of comedy, hip-hop and Somergloom, plenty of theater and dance, and everything from a Moth Story Slam to a monarch butterfly release celebration.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.