Infrastructure News
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By AFP
Beirut -
Rebels from Syria's Idlib have blown up two key bridges in a bid to hamper an expected government assault on the country's last remaining rebel-held province, a monitor said on Friday.
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London -
A new initiative, outlined in a report published by the U.K. government on Tuesday outlines a strategy to use data science to identify companies with the potential to provide their services overseas as part of a plan to grow the U.K.'s export market.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Malaysia will shelve three China-backed projects worth a total $22 billion until the debt-laden Southeast Asian nation can afford to pay for them, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday during a visit to Beijing.
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London -
The U.K. government has embarked upon a series of reviews examining how infrastructure is being impacted by technological change. The review includes a review of integrated transport.
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U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information.
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced the signing of an agreement with Tongren Transportation & Tourism Investment Group of the People's Republic of China on July 20 to build a Hyperloop track in Guizhou, China.
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There is plenty that is banded about in relation to smart homes, but is this concept limited to an array of voice activated gadgets or does the smart home of the future promise something more? A leading expert in smart technology explains more.
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Vulnerabilities exist in critical utilities infrastructures and the number of reported attacks grows. How can those who operate critical infrastructures best defend against such attacks? Security expert Stewart Kantor provides some answers.
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By AFP
Washington -
The Russian government is behind a sustained hacking effort to take over the control systems of critical US infrastructure like nuclear power plants and water distribution, according to US cyber security investigators.
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You could say that whatever Trump giveth, he can also take away, too. And his latest idea is to increase the federal gas tax to motorists 25 cents a gallon. Doing so would wipe out 60 percent of the tax cuts he gave Americans.
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By AFP
Taipei -
Taiwan has built itself a reputation for cutting edge technology, efficient public transport and safe streets. But an earthquake has again highlighted the well-off island's history of shoddy construction and questionable safety standards.
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Quebec -
The Quebec government is purchasing a fleet of 50 Toyota Marai hydrogen fuel cell vehicles — the first such vehicles in Canada, which Toyota expects to deliver to the province later this year.
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By AFP
Bejing -
China lodged a formal diplomatic protest on Wednesday after a senior Australian minister called Chinese infrastructure projects in the Pacific "white elephants", the latest spat in increasingly contentious relations.
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President Trump’s administration has proposed opening up nearly all of America’s offshore waters to oil and gas drilling, but the industry says it is mainly interested in one part of it, now cordoned off by the Pentagon - the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida in September, Governor Rick Scott told residents “you need to go right now," setting in motion an evacuation of 3.0 million people, leaving gas stations empty. But what if all those cars had been electric?
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If someone were to ask you to name the most-extracted materials on Earth, you might answer with fossil fuels or biomass. However, by weight, the answer is actually sand and gravel.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has bought 25,000 acres of land in Arizona to create a new smart city called Belmont. Located a short distance from Phoenix, the site has cost Gates' investment firm Cascade Investment LLC $80m to acquire.
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A major security upgrade to infrastructure that supports the entire Internet has been delayed over fears it could knock 60 million people offline. ICANN was preparing to change cryptographic keys to boost security but has put the plans on hold until 2018.
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Digital transformation strategies are being "held back" by a reliance on legacy tech, according to a new report. As companies try to modernise their IT, they remain restricted by aging infrastructure that can't be migrated to the cloud.
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Houston -
Oil markets are in turmoil today as investors and other stakeholders assess the financial impact of Hurricane Harvey. In the meantime, gasoline futures are soaring while oil futures are going in the opposite direction.
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Houston -
There is a reason why forecasters and the news media is calling the flooding from what was Hurricane Harvey a catastrophe, once-in-500-years flood or a disaster of epic proportions. When pencil-pushers start adding up the costs, it will be unbelievable.
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After making landfall on Friday night as a powerful Category 4 storm, Hurricane Harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm that has created a disaster of epic proportions in southeast Texas.
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Hurricane and Tropical storm warnings are posted all along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Harvey slowly makes it way onshore, bringing with it "biblical" amounts of rainfall and unprecedented devastation.
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Corpus Christi -
Energy companies have been forced to shut down or temporarily evacuate oil and natural gas platforms and refining facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Texas coast as Hurricane Harvey barrels ashore, possibly as a Category 3 storm.
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Corpus Christi -
tropical Storm Harvey is expected to rapidly gain strength and hit the Texas coast as a Category 3 hurricane by Friday evening, causing devastating flooding and threatening the energy industry and oil production.
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Chicago -
Because of the wide range of environmental factors impacting our lives, from air quality and traffic to urban flooding and noise, the use of sensors and cloud computing have become increasingly valuable tools for managing and planning urban environments.
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have done an exhaustive global analysis that shows signs of a radical shift in stream-flow patterns, with more intense flooding in cities along with drier countrysides.
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By AFP
Washington -
In the first salvo in a week-long push to overhaul America's infrastructure, President Donald Trump on Monday announced a plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system.
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Durham -
A new study by the University of New Hampshire has found that coastal roads, some as far as two miles inland are at facing a new hazard that currently can't be seen by drivers - rising levels of groundwater caused by rising sea levels
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Repairing or replacing the nation's crumbling bridges is just one part of President Trump's $1.0 trillion budget proposal to update U.S. infrastructure. However, our current means of assessing their vulnerability may need to be updated.
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New Jersey Path train provides an alternative route in brutal morning commute.
In 2014, a broken water main flooded the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, forcing the closure of Sunset Boulevard. Movie Box
Main Terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport at dusk in Virginia. Airports are part of a state's transportation infrastructure. Joe Ravi
Rescuers attempt to located people trapped in tunnel collapse in China Screen Capture
A water main break. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
A server supporting an office area.
Nic tweeted: "My photos from the start of demolition of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in #BigSur which started today." Nic Coury
Apartments, offices and other buildings, icluding homes are becoming more energy-efficient. Cacophony
Collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland, from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. (As seen from ground-level) Note detachment of upper vertical elements from lower and the lack of reinforcement at the point of detachment. H.G. Wilshire, U.S. Geological Survey
A web of interdependencies makes the modern economy especially sensitive to solar storms. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The I-75 / I-85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta, Georgia. Keeping infrastructure in top condition is necessary to maintain economic growth. AtlantaCitizen
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Aug. 14, 2007) - The I-35 bridge collapse site over the Mississippi River. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joshua Adam Nuzzo
Coastal flooding from a non-tropical low at the Outer Banks of North Carolina on October 5, 2015. North Carolina Department of Transportation
Rush hour traffic in Interstate 95 in Miami, Florida in 2012. B137
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