How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails

America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Opened a Psychic Bookstore

A considerable mess greeted the station sergeant who peered into London's The Psychic Bookshop in the early morning hours of February 6, 1928. Books and papers
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More than half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave: ‘The mood is darkening’

A whopping 64% of residents in Silicon Valley are worried the region is on the wrong track.
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Google discontinues Google Translate in mainland China

Google has discontinued its Google Translate services in mainland China, removing one of the company’s few remaining services that it had provided in a country where most Western social media platforms are blocked
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Walled Culture – a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technolog

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Finland wants to transform how we make clothes

Firms behind innovative fibres says they can make fashion a more sustainable business.
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Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells

Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now
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