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Boring Company proposes tunnel to Dodger Stadium
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company, is getting the go-ahead sign on a project to build a transit tunnel connecting Dodger Stadium with one of Los Angeles’ Metro Red Line subway stations. The Boring Company laid out the plan … Continue reading
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Tagged Elon Musk, Los Angeles, Technology, The Boring Company, Transportation, Tunnels
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Researchers test new systems to track drones
As more and more drones fill the skies, increasingly sophisticated methods will be required to track them under increasingly challenging conditions. How will they navigate if they lose touch with the Global Positioning System? How will authorities know who to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviation, Drones, Technology, Transportation, University of Washington
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Amazon drone delivered to the Smithsonian
Amazon’s drone delivery service is still in its experimental phase, but it’s already destined to become a part of American history at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. An Amazon Prime Air hybrid drone is being prepared for display in the … Continue reading
Security strengthened at Sea-Tac after plane theft
Security measures have been stepped up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, including the maintenance area where a ground support worker commandeered an empty plane for an unauthorized, and ultimately fatal, flight on Friday. “You’ll see that increased presence,” Courtney Gregoire, president … Continue reading
Elon Musk says Saudis will back Tesla privatization
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “funding secured” for a plan to take the company private, he was referring to the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund — whose executives had been pressing him for almost two years to take … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Elon Musk, Saudi Arabia, Technology, Tesla Motors
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Fatal joyride points to gaps in airport security
The day after a Horizon Air employee stole an airplane, flew aerial stunts and crashed into a sparsely inhabited island in Puget Sound, airline executives acknowledged that more will have to be done about insider air security. “Yesterday’s events will push … Continue reading
Bizarre airplane theft ends in lone fatality
By Alan Boyle and Todd Bishop A distressed Horizon Air employee stole one of the airline’s planes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport tonight and roamed through the air with F-15 fighter jets in pursuit until the plane crashed on Ketron Island, … Continue reading
