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Minnesota AG's report reveals big telcos are literally letting their...

More than a decade of foot-dragging on fiber rollout has left millions of Americans dependent on taxpayer-funded copper-line infrastructure for landlines and DSL, but it's not like the carriers are...

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New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital...

James "New Aesthetic" Bridle (previously) is several kinds of provocateur and artist (who can forget his autonomous vehicle trap, to say nothing of his groundbreaking research on the violent Youtube...

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A video series that explains how public infrastructure works

Practical Engineering is a video series that clearly and entertainingly explains how public infrastructure works - dams, water towers, bridges, reservoirs, and so on.  Above: how water towers work....

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Watch: How traffic light programming helps manage congestion

From Practical Engineering: Traffic management in dense urban areas is an extremely complex problem with a host of conflicting goals and challenges. One of the most fundamental of those challenges...

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Power going out for Northern California again, thanks PG&E

As high winds, warm dry air, and extreme fire risk returns to areas of Northern and Central California today, Pacific Gas & Electric is again shutting off people's electricity to reduce fire risk....

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Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a...

[We're delighted to have Rosemary Frei back with us, this time reporting on a global transformation: once, infrastructure was created efficiently with cheap central bank funding and now it's done with...

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The beauty of sewers before the first flush

Our cities' sewers are some of the most incredible structures in the built environment. In a new book, "An Underground Guide to Sewers: or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c."...

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Amazon reinstates FedEx ground delivery for Prime after suspending it last month

Amazon has reinstated FedEx as a ground delivery carrier for Prime members' shipments. The online retailer said today the shipper consistently met its delivery requirements, after suspending it last...

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Mexico City escalator breakdowns blamed on pee-pee

Everyone is pissed. In Mexico City, many people who travel on the subway system blame authorities for the many broken escalators at train stops. Metro officials blame something else: “vast amounts of...

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Google and other tech giants want Hong Kong alternative after U.S. blocks...

• 'U.S. tech giants are considering alternatives to Hong Kong as a global data hub after national security officials upended plans for a trans-Pacific internet link to the territory, according to...

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Facebook working with China Mobile to bring undersea internet to Africa in $1...

Facebook has joined a partnership with China Mobile and other entities to construct an undersea cable to connect Africa with higher-speed and more reliable broadband internet, Bloomberg reports. The...

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California faces rolling blackouts again as 'heat storm' strains electrical grid

Rolling blackouts may return to California as an intense heat wave creates surging demand on the state's electric grid. The California Independent System Operator, which manages most of the grid in the...

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Rolling blackouts warning for 3 million California homes

The agency that runs the electrical grid in California has warned state residents that some 3 million homes may be subjected to rolling blackouts to manage the surging energy demands caused by an...

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The small English town united by the world's largest hedgehog highway

The Guardian has a wonderfully whimsical story about the town of Kirtlington in Oxfordshire, UK. The small village underwent a massive infrastructural overhaul in 2016 … specifically, for the hedgehogs...

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One way to fix social media? Look at how the US, UK, and USSR dealt with...

Ethan Zuckerman is the head of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the UMass–Amherst and the author of such books as Digital Cosmopolitans: Why We Think the Internet Connects Us, Why It...

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The pandemic is changing how cities think about bicycles, and it's about damn...

I started cycling in Boston in 2006, initially as a way to get in shape and save some money. Over the years, I've seen a lot of changes in the city's bike infrastructure; the work of the Boston...

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Here is a brief history of toilets

Who gives a crap about the history of toilets? Francis de los Reyes does. He's a professor of civil engineering at North Carolina State University whose research focuses on "wastewater treatment plant...

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This "Biden Delivers" video celebrates the new infrastructure bill while...

This new MeidasTouch video, "Biden Delivers," trolls do-nothing Donald Trump for his inability to pass an infrastructure bill, even though for four years he and his administration promised over and...

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Entire country's internet service disrupted by a volcano

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, an underwater volcano erupted near the archipelago that comprises the small Polynesian nation of Tonga. This resulted in 50 foot tsunami waves that destroyed more than 100...

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Pittsburgh bridge collapse sends morning traffic into ravine

Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice, all of them are frozen solid, many of them are a century old, and one of them just collapsed under the weight of traffic, snow and neglect. Numerous people were...

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NTSB's preliminary report on the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in...

President Biden got press to die for when he visited Pittsburgh last week to tout his administration's infrastructure push: one of the city's rotting bridges suddenly collapsed while he was in town,...

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Check out London's new underground rail line (just don't call it the...

Technically, the Elizabeth Line is but the first part of Crossrail, an expansion of the city's rail system so sprawling and expensive that it is most certainly it's own thing, not part of the London...

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No drinking water "indefinitely" in Jackson, Mississippi

The water system in Jackson, MIssissippi's largest city, has failed and is no longer pressurized, report local media. Residents are advised to boil whatever water they can get out the faucet for three...

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The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring

The New Yorker recently published a fascinating article about David Mills, a computer engineer who worked for COMSAT and ARPANET in the early days of Internet development. Mills was one of the first...

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Soft targets: FBI warned utilities that white supremacists were targeting...

PBS affiliater KUOW and Oregon Public Broadcasting report that the FBI warned utilities that far-right groups and individuals were planning to attack electricity substations. "The individuals of...

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Spanish transport secretary resigns after $275 million in new trains are too...

Spain's transportation department and the private state rail operator, Renfe, announced a fat $275 million contract that started three years ago to modernize the country's commuter railway in Asturias...

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Inmate breaks through prison wall, to get to other inmate he wanted to attack

Kavian Thomas, an inmate in Georgia, allegedly broke through a wall in a Fulton County jail to gain access to another inmate he wanted to stab. Thomas stabbed Russell multiple times once he...

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Watch: Bridge in India collapses for the 2nd time in 14 months, captured in...

A bridge in India that was still under construction after collapsing in April 2022 collapsed yet again on Sunday. A bystander managed to catch footage of the 820-foot long structure as it suddenly gave...

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Ron DeSantis signs bill that allows Florida to build roads with radioactive...

Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to turn his plunging poll numbers around with a new bill that would allow roads to contain radioactive material. Because what Floridian wouldn't want their streets embedded with...

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One man's horrific saga of inadvertantly destroying municipal infrastructure...

With viral challenges getting bigger and broader in scope, it can be easy to forget the consequences they have on people around them. The cautionary tale of French TikToker Cyrilschr, however, serves...

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