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The inaugural Cesium Developer Conference landed in Philadelphia this summer, bringing together a global crowd of developers, climate scientists, engineers, game designers, and space technologists. Over three days, they explored how open 3D geospatial technology...
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Karl-Alexandre Jahjah is nearly impossible to catch off guard – or to outrun. He, where quick thinking means survival and glory. He also runs marathons, including one less than a year after rupturing his Achilles tendon. That mindset – face...
We’re only halfway through 2025, yet we’ve already brought you stories from around the world about how AI and digital twins are transforming the way we design, build, and maintain the infrastructure around us. From flood-proofing the bustling streets of...
Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the cliché goes. But even taxes come with surprises—like the cost of crumbling infrastructure. “When we fail to invest in infrastructure, that’s a hidden tax we pay today,” said Tom Smith, executive director...
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 who rise before dawn to...
A major economic shift is underway: the rise of artificial intelligence. From tools like ChatGPT to AI-driven infrastructure maintenance, the rapid adoption of AI is poised to reshape how we work and how society operates. Although we’re still in the...
Mark Pittman parlayed his frustration with a broken traffic light into a pioneering startup that today uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, and cloud computing to help maintain the nation’s roads more intuitively and effectively. Since its launch in 2014,...
In mining, billion-dollar decisions often rest on what happened months and years ago in the core shack—an unassuming shed near a potential goldmine where drill cores become data. Geologist David Newton should know. Early in his career, he spent long,...
It was still dark outside when I left my home in Dedrad, a small village in Transylvania, Romania, where the roads are as old and twisty as the stories I grew up with. I loaded my suitcase into the car,...