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On iTunes store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/save-americas-infrastructure/id989892323?mt=8

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ReFlow reuses grey water, saves fresh water

http://www.gizmag.com/re-flow-grey-water-recycle/37104/

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Deal Talks for Here Mapping Service Expose Reliance on Location Data

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/deal-talks-for-here-mapping-service-expose-reliance-on-location-data/

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New Whirlwind-Attracting Bladeless Micro Wind Turbine Gets Harvard Cred

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/01/new-whirlwind-attracting-bladeless-micro-wind-turbine-gets-harvard-cred/

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Google’s self-driving car:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/28/google-self-driving-car-how-does-it-work

http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/google-self-driving-car-video-city-streets/

Self-driving tractor-trailers:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2015/05/06/how-self-driving-tractor-trailers-may-reinvent-what-it-means-to-be-a-truck-driver/

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PHILADELPHIA, PA --(Marketwired - April 24, 2015) - Today, Arbor Day, NYC Parks invites the public and community organizations to register to participate in the next New York...

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How self-driving tractor-trailers may reinvent what it means to be a truck driver

A trucking executive envisions a shift to other tasks while sitting behind the wheel as a safeguard.

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Officials won't say where they've placed NYC's controversial speed cameras, but we found out and mapped them.

http://project.wnyc.org/speed-cameras

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Esri, Mount Vernon, and Quinn Evans Architects create a BIM-GIS 3D world with the ArcGIS Data Interop Extension to provide detailed site and structure data.

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Pre-Inca canals may solve Lima's water crisis

Restoring an ancient canal network could halve the Peruvian capital's water deficit at a fraction of a cost of building a desalination plant

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Beyond Traffic: US DOT's 30 Year Framework for the Future

Article:

http://www.dot.gov/BeyondTraffic

Document:

http://www.dot.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/Draft_Beyond_Traffic_Framework.pdf

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California regulators approved a record $1.6-billion fine against the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., even as the new president of the Public Utilities Commission publicly questioned the company’s commitment to safety.

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Dutch scientists show: the 1962 Alcatraz Escape was possible

More details here:

http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/nederlandse-wetenschappers-laten-zien-ontsnapping-per-boot-van-alcatraz-in-1962-was-mogelijk/

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New Orleans was once above sea level, but stormwater drainage has caused it to sink -- with deadly consequences

Early one September morning in 1975, in a quiet Metairie subdivision west of Transcontinental Drive, a ranch house suddenly exploded in a fireball so powerful it damaged 20 neighboring buildings and broke windows a mile away. The house plus four...