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Some have called it Europe’s answer to the Suez Canal. The Seine-Nord Europe Canal in northern France is the largest construction project of its kind on the continent. When complete, the €7.3 billion waterway will...
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Some have called it Europe’s answer to the Suez Canal. The Seine-Nord Europe Canal in northern France is the largest construction project of its kind on the continent. When complete, the €7.3 billion waterway will connect France to Belgium, the...
The sun never seems to fully set in Abilene, Texas. During the day, the West Texas sky is broad and blue, but when night creeps in, darkness never quite swallows the northern edge of town. That’s where crews are building...
Late in August, around 60 Bentley Systems engineers, designers, product managers, and experts from around the world gathered at the company’s headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, to put the finishing touches on OpenSite+, an engineering software solution that brings generative AI...
In This Story Inefficient pumps silently steal from utility budgets Data reveals clues that pumps won’t confess Digital tools turn waste into savings You lock your car and put your valuables in a safe to keep out thieves. But if...
Jona Schubert has always been fascinated by how things work. As a child in the small South American country of Suriname, he says he “kept asking too many questions and loved figuring things out.” When Schubert was 8 years old,...
What makes a city smart? For Luke Antoniou, senior editor at SmartCitiesWorld, it’s using data and technology to improve how people live, work, and move through urban spaces. We caught up with Antoniou in Dublin in May at the first...
Infrastructure is made of steel and concrete, but its future is being built in code. A new wave of engineers, scientists, and visionaries is using artificial intelligence (AI), open data, and curiosity to solve problems that once seemed too hard...
Tomas Ward isn’t your typical computer science professor. A self-described “noob,” Ward heads up data analytics at the School of Computing at Dublin City University and serves as site director of Insight, one of Ireland’s largest AI research centers. But...
At Google AI for the Planet, an event recently held during London Climate Action Week in the British capital, Google’s global leaders in sustainability came together to explore a pressing question: How can artificial intelligence (AI) help us create a...
David Settlemyer had a distinct knack for making the impossible seem inevitable. Armed with a Southern drawl and an arsenal of folksy colloquialisms — “as useful as socks on a rooster” was a favorite — the Kannapolis, North Carolina native...