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Major urban bridgeworks projects can be reduced from months or even years to just three days based on an innovative hybrid fiberglass-concrete-steel bridge construction technique with results three times as strong as conventional reinforced concrete bridges, yet only a third of the weight.

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“The greatest threat that humanity faces from artificial intelligence is not killer robots, but rather, our lack of willingness to analyze, name, and live to the values we want society to have today”

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Massachusetts hoping to be nation’s offshore wind power hub — The announcement that Massachusetts will work with Rhode Island to bring up to 1,200 megawatts of offshore wind energy to the region marks a milestone in the state’s efforts to develop renewable energy.

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Leaked document shows the White House planning to force Americans to spend $311m-$11.8b/year to keep unprofitable coal and nuclear energy plants from shutting / Boing Boing

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Institutional investors boasting some $26 trillion (€22.3 trillion) in assets urged leaders from the Group of Seven nations to double down on their pledge to cut down greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out coal power entirely.

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r/sciences is holding a contest! Prizes and sweet, sweet bragging rights at stake. Q: “what area of research today are you most excited about for its potential to transform our society within the next 10 years?” More details on how to enter and win inside this post.

June 3, 2018 BIMnewsmanager

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Self-driving cars will kill people and we need to accept that – Early iterations of the autonomous vehicle may result in some loss of life, but even our most underdeveloped models will most likely be an improvement over a human driver’s ability.

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Energy groups join together to condemn plan to subsidize nuclear, coal plants: “A policy to spend billions of dollars keeping uneconomic power plants afloat, while trying to put clean and affordable solar on the sidelines, is not a recipe for economic success.”

June 2, 2018 BIMnewsmanager

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Driverless cars OK’d to carry passengers in California

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The Outer Space Treaty—written in 1967 and signed by all major world powers—is the closest thing we have to a space constitution. But, as an old document, it struggles to deal with modern challenges. So a team of experts want an organization to promote space sustainably for future generations.

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