Infrastructure
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Spring days can produce an excess of surplus renewable energy in California — more power than electric lines can carry. Researchers have some ideas about where and how to harness that energy. -
Founded by former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, the North Carolina Blockchain + AI Initiative (NCB+AI) will work to pass pro-cryptocurrency legislation and support construction of data centers.
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A new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy urges regulators and utilities to make the grid operate more efficiently. There are ways, experts said, to absorb part of data centers’ growth.
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Urbanization in many North American cities has led to a rapid loss of permeable surfaces where water can freely drain. A study conducted by University of Toronto civil engineer Jenny Hill and co-researchers shows how green roofs can improve our cities and environment.
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The Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge will focus on "designed-in cybersecurity" for smart city systems, ultimately providing more secure and resilient protection of citizen privacy.
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It is said Domino’s and Ford will deliver pizzas to randomly selected customers in the Ann Arbor, Mich., area in a Ford Fusion Hybrid car equipped with autonomous technology.
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A survey released earlier this year looks at how smart cities projects are developing in smaller jurisdictions nationwide.
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Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi was voted in by Uber's board as Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's replacement.
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Thanks to companies like Uber and Lyft, people pay for rides and even tip drivers just by tapping a button on smartphones. No cash. No cards.
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Amazon’s supremacy in e-commerce and cloud computing has given Seattle more prominence as a magnet for talent from all over the world, and reshaped formerly forlorn parts of the city into vibrant live-work-and-play neighborhoods.
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It’s the next wave in the technological revolution that began about 10 years ago, when hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling helped crack open hard shale-rock deposits that operators couldn’t reach before.
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The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is the Bay Area’s newest transportation option, spanning 43 miles of rail corridor with 10 stops from the Sonoma County Airport to downtown San Rafael.
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The center will develop new technology with components small enough to be developed inside a factory over the coming decade to support smaller-scale nuclear plants.
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A first-of-its-kind study details participants’ concerns about cars that can drive themselves.
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A group of automakers and other groups called the Coalition for Future Mobility issued a statement urging Congress to direct NHTSA to begin work on writing the driver out of new car designs.
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Self driving cars have the ability to bring in a world of new design opportunities.
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Apple's latest foray into autonomous vehicles is a scaled-down version of what was expected to be a self-driving car built from the ground up by the tech giant.
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Near Earth Autonomy makes laser and sensor systems for autonomous aerial vehicles such as drones and helicopters and will provide hardware for Vahana, the self-flying car that Airbus is working on in Silicon Valley.
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The study finds that old "baseload" coal and nuclear power plants are crucial and must be kept operating. But critics called it a "schizophrenic" attempt to support highly polluting power plants.
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The laboratory is looking for funds to help finance the long-haul trucking testing that could take place on a test track already in place off Amnicola Highway.
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Transit systems in Portland, Ore., and Chicago make fare payment increasingly effortless for travelers.
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