One DC Traffic Camera Generates $12 Million in Revenue!
Via Instapundit comes this Wash Post piece about an incredibly lucrative traffic camera in the District of Columbia: [Here's what a] single speed camera on New York Avenue [accomplished] in 23 months....
View ArticleHurricane Sandy: Hotel Stay In Connecticut Offers Welcome Distraction From...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The city is silent and dark. Power has been out for hours. Parts of town have become an obstacle course of downed trees and flooded roads, with bright-red flares warning drivers to...
View ArticleRapid flooding forced overnight evacuation of NYU Med Center
The rapid rise of flood waters that overwhelmed emergency generators forced New York University (NYU)’s Langone Medical Center to evacuate some 260 patients overnight as New York City was being...
View ArticleNYU Hospital Defends Failed Generators That Forced Evacuation During...
The failed backup power generators that led to the evacuation of the New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan are adequate, a spokeswoman said Tuesday."Our generators are fully compliant...
View ArticleNYU medical research lost in Sandy
While the focus of medical staff, students and the emergency services Monday night was to safely evacuate patients from NYU Hospital when back up generators failed, some of the medical center's...
View ArticleHere’s How Army Engineers Are ‘Unwatering’ NYC’s Tunnels
The scale is staggering: Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City's network of underground and vehicular tunnels with up to 400 million gallons of water. On Thursday, the U.S. military began to bring...
View ArticleInformation Blackout In Lower Manhattan Ends As Lights, Internet Return
“Do you know what happened to the Coney Island Museum?”Olivia Cieri spent most of the work week after Hurricane Sandy volunteering at ABC No Rio, an artists’ collective on Rivington Street in...
View ArticleWhy Did SquareSpace’s CEO Haul Diesel Up 17 Flights of Stairs? Anything Less...
One of the Fog Creek volunteers, buckets in hand. (Photo: Squarespace) When Hurricane Sandy smashed into lower Manhattan last week, customers of the data center Peer1 faced the prospect of major...
View ArticleFred Wilson: I’ve Seen GeoCities. And You, Tumblr, Are No GeoCities
XKCD's Geocities tribute (Photo: Inquisitr) At yesterday's Ad Tech New York conference, Union Square Ventures investor Fred Wilson dismissed the notion that Tumblr will go the way of GeoCities. Mr....
View ArticleEV Hack Keeps Homes Humming After Hurricane Sandy
As millions of people turned to generators and candles in the wake of superstorm Sandy, some electric vehicle owners employed a clever hack to keep their lights on and refrigerators humming. … Read More
View ArticleOn the Bright Side, New York’s AT&T Customers Have Been World’s Guinea Pigs
(Photo: Josh Hallett) Maybe your AT&T service hasn't always been everything you'd hoped it would be. But take heart New Yorkers, the lessons the telecommunications giant learned here are being...
View ArticleNew York University Plans To Reopen Hospital Shut Down By Hurricane – The...
New York University's Langone Medical Center announced a phased reopening of Tisch Hospital, its flagship clinical facility, before the end of December. The hospital evacuated hundreds of patients when...
View ArticleSan Onofre Nuclear Plant Operator Ordered To Turn Over Records
LOS ANGELES -- A federal board Friday ordered the operator of a shuttered nuclear power plant in California to turn over dozens of pages of documents that were withheld when the company submitted a...
View ArticleFeds do not consider San Onofre nuclear powerplant safe
David McNew / Getty Images / AFP Federal regulators have expressed significant concern about the safety of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, asking for more analysis on its damaged steam generators...
View Article10 Things To Know About The Northeast Blizzard
-- 1. MORE THAN 650,000 LOST POWER IN NEW ENGLANDEven the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Mass., had to shut down and turn to backup generators.Read More... More on Winter Storm 'Nemo' … Read...
View ArticleGOP thinks imitating BuzzFeed to raise money is WIN!
The GOP is going to make its own BuzzFeed, apparently. National Journal's Brian Fung "won the Internet" yesterday with his report on the National Republican Congressional Committee's thrilling new...
View ArticleBritain to double aid to Syrian opposition in 2014 – Cameron
Cameron has vowed an extra £10 million for non-lethal equipment and £30 million more for humanitarian assistance for Syrian people as the two politicians outlined further steps to “bring to an end the...
View ArticleAnother radioactive leak found at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the owner of the wrecked plant, said it discovered the leak on Wednesday, fueling yet more criticism of the company as it seeks permission to release water into the...
View ArticleUnlikely alliance: Prokhorov pledges support for heavy metal rocker in Moscow...
After announcing last week that he did not plan to participate personally in the September 8 mayoral race, Prokhorov said on the talk show ‘Iron Ladies’, aired by NTV, that his personal sympathies lie...
View ArticleUK may replicate US energy boom as more shale gas found
A new study from the British Geological Survey estimated that 1.3 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas lie trapped in shale rock beneath northern England, which is far more than current proven UK...
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