What Goes Up… Space may be boundless, but the increasingly cluttered orbital real estate where we like to cram all our satellites is not. And so as we enter a golden age of commercial spaceflight, those of us on terra firma may not be able to write off death by falling space junk as an […]
When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen. Currently the Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus at MIT, he also co-founded three key companies, including Rethink Robotics, iRobot and his current endeavor, Robust.ai. Brooks also ran the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) for a decade starting in 1997. In […]
Six years after Ramsey County leaders endorsed a streetcar for W. 7th Street in St. Paul, a new idea for public transit along the busy corridor has emerged: a bus line that is more than a billion dollars cheaper to build. County transit planners last month released details for arterial bus-rapid transit (aBRT) service that […]
Both boats were packed with passengers. Both struck fixed channel markers at high speed. Both collisions left one person dead and others injured. And both were investigated by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers. Two shattering boat crashes, more than a year and 100 miles apart in South Florida, share compelling similarities. But the […]
Shares of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) slipped 2.4% in 2023, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. While that wasn’t a bad performance, it significantly underperformed the S&P 500 (which gained 24.2% in 2023). On a more positive note, Kinder Morgan’s total return was a positive 4.1% in 2023 after adding its high-yielding […]
An investigation has found that Russian authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine – the flooding that followed the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. Russia said 59 people drowned after the catastrophic explosion in the territory it […]
An investigation has found that Russian authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine – the flooding that followed the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. Russia said 59 people drowned after the catastrophic explosion in the territory it […]