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Rishi Sunak failure to commit to HS2’s northern leg has raised concerns about the future of several large-scale transport projectsThe future of several prestige transport projects, including a planned £9bn road tunnel under the Thames, are in increasin…
Time will tell if the premier’s legacy will be his huge infrastructure projects and social reforms or his exercise of power and debt burdenDaniel Andrews resigns as premier of VictoriaProgress, protests and pooches: the highs and lows of Daniel Andrews…
The escalating energy crisis, underscored by soaring gas and electricity prices, poses significant challenges but also opportunities for the rail sector. ScotRail’s initiative in Scotland provides an excellent case study.
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Biden adviser Heather Boushey urges UK and Europe to increase climate friendly investment to reboot growthGovernments around the world must drastically increase public investment in green technologies to combat global heating and drive sustainable eco…
Thinktank says replacements for European Investment Bank have backed ‘fewer, smaller and lower-risk projects’New public sector lenders created by the government since Brexit are investing two-thirds less than the UK was receiving from the EU’s European…
Modular buildings hire firm inundated with inquiries from schools needing temporary classroomsThe phones have been ringing incessantly at Algeco’s Peterborough call centre in recent days.Since the Department for Education prompted chaos last Thursday b…
Airlines told to take ‘every possible step’ to aid stranded passengers as costs of travel disruption mountHundreds more flights were cancelled on Tuesday as the fallout from Monday’s UK air traffic control failure continued to disrupt travel, with the …
Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longerMore than 150 car models are now too big to fit in average car parking spaces, according to analysis conducted by Which?.While the size of the standa…
Imagine that we’ve all—all of us, all of society—landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy systems from the US or any other country. We don’t have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking.
How would we govern ourselves?
It’s unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-eighteenth-century technology could conceive of. The twenty-first century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially…
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports:
The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have a number of different phases. Interested would-be competitors can now submit their proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research program for evaluation and, eventually, selected teams will participate in a 2024 “qualifying event.” During that event, the top 20 teams will be invited to a semifinal competition at that year’s DEF CON, another large cybersecurity conference, where the field will be further whittled down…