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Are Giant, Living Bubbles the Future of City Planning?

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How Musk's Tunnel Boring Would Work

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President Trump is Interested in The Hyperloop

Musk & Trump Earlier this week, Elon Musk dined at the White House with the president to discuss his infrastructure plan for the country, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal....

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Graphene That Changes Color When It Cracks Could Literally Save Lives

A Natural Remedy Since it's discovery, graphene has been changing our society dramatically. The radically versatile material can filter sea water while also beating steel in tensile strength over 200...

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Australia Plans to Set the Record for Electric Vehicle Highways

Electrical vehicles (EVs) are the next evolution in personal transportation. A large-scale shift toward the technology has the potential to significantly reduce the environmental impact of simply...

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Transport Costs May Change Due to Advancing Technologies

Paying for Transportation Whether you drive, take public transportation, or a combination of both, you're likely familiar with paying for tolls, parking, tickets, and many of the other aspects integral...

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To Grow Up, Singapore Is Drilling Down

Underground Urbanism With 5.6 million residents packed into an area about two-thirds the size of New York City, space is already at a premium on the island of Singapore. What's more, the city-state's...

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Flying Cars May Work Best When Tethered to Power Lines

LET'S GO FLY A KITE Flying cars always work perfectly in the movies. But now that we’re close to actually building some, we’re finding they come with all sorts of problems. Perhaps the most prominent...

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E-Bikes Are Absolutely Crushing Electric Cars in Sales

Sales Dominance The best selling electric vehicles aren’t electric cars — instead, they're electric bicycles. In fact, a recent report from The New York Times found that Americans bought roughly half a...

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Tesla Fan Page Relentlessly Mocked for Incredibly Stupid Post

Thanksgiving is upon us — and that means endless stretches of soul-crushing traffic jams, if you happen to live in a busy metropolitan area. But Tesla fans have a solution in mind: endure the same...

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Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts,...

Infra-restructure Forget seasonal blackouts like those in Texas and Memphis during exceptional winter storms — electric grid failures may become the norm in the US if we don't sink some major...

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London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

My Fair Lady As deadly temperatures in Europe continue their climb to troubling, record-breaking highs, countries are scrambling to protect at-risk infrastructure. One such case? The UK — which just...

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The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

Summer of Thirst The water system in Jackson, Mississippi has essentially collapsed, Mississippi Today reported this week, with thousands of the city's residents finding themselves without access to...

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Tech Guy Shocked That Uber From NYC to Philly Is Expensive

Mythical Beast Most people know better than to try to take an Uber between cities that are 100 miles apart — and as one tech guy learned in a now-viral post, people have very little sympathy for how...

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We’re in Awe of Amsterdam’s Huge Underwater Bike Parking Garage

Modern Marvel In the global effort to disincentivize emissions-heavy automobile use, no one is doing it quite like the Dutch. The city of Amsterdam just unveiled a truly remarkable underwater parking...

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NASA Complains That Its Buildings Are Falling Apart

Building Backlog It may be the world's foremost space agency, but not all is as glittering as it seems at NASA. Internally, its leadership complains of a deeply rooted infrastructural problem, Ars...

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Elon Musk Frantically Moved Twitter Servers Himself, Eventually Realized His...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is a hands-on guy, which has sometimes led to incidents that backfire spectacularly — sometimes on an international scale. Now we can an add personally unplugging and hauling...

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In Terrifying Audio, Police Desperately Try to Clear Bridge Before Impact

Hacksaw Bridge Just before 1:30 am, a massive 95,000-ton cargo ship issued an urgent "mayday" signal, warning first responders to clear the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Moments later, the vessel smashed...

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Crew Still Stranded on Ship Two Weeks After Knocking Down Baltimore Bridge

The group of sailors aboard the shipping vessel that pummelled into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in late March are still stranded, and it's unclear when they'll be able to return home. In an...

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