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The Premier League is known as the Greatest Show on Earth, and it’s not just hype. The English soccer competition has a worldwide TV audience of around 3.2 billion people, from fans in Los Angeles...
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If you haven’t heard the news yet, Bentley Systems has acquired Cesium, the foundational open platform for creating powerful 3D geospatial applications. The acquisition brings together the leading open platforms and developer communities for the built and natural environment. However,...
Bentley Systems set out on a mission four decades ago to change the way we build things. Since then, Bentley software has helped unlock the power of data for architects, engineers, builders and operators in nearly 200 countries. Our software...
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) recently toasted Bentley Systems’ upcoming 40th anniversary during on-the-record remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The congresswoman serving Pennsylvania District 6, home to Bentley’s headquarters in Exton, applauded the company’s four-decade track...
The northern hemisphere slogged through its hottest summer in 2,000 years last year, and 2024 could be even warmer. This week, we look at how digital twins are helping communities adjust to rising temperatures, fight wildfires, forecast and prevent flooding,...
It was somewhere in the middle of Kansas when brutal crosswinds threatened to blow Katie Aguilar off her bike. Augilar had been surviving on little sleep and a diet of bagels, Bonk Breaker protein bars, and espresso shots, but she...
Did you know that optical fibers embedded in aging infrastructure can enable proactive maintenance, improve safety, and extend its life? Learn more about this and other exciting infrastructure research and innovation in our new column The 5 Coolest Things in...
In early May, you could hear a pin drop in Bangladesh’s classrooms and playgrounds, as the country’s schools and colleges closed in response to a ferocious heatwave. But there was no respite for rickshaw driver Mohammed Shameem, who had no...
Ever since she was a little girl in Canada, in the early aughts, Geneviève “Gen” Taurand loved math and technology. “I became fascinated with all of the new types of cellphones that were coming out,” Taurand said. “It amazed me...
