A God-awful rendering has been released for a misguided plan to transform the amazing offshore megastructural war ruins of the Maunsell Towers into a luxury hotel.
Year: 2016
Agrirobotics
The USDA has announced a grant-giving program “for robots to roam farmlands,” Modern Farmer reports. It’s called the “National Robotics Initiative,” and it’s “getting $3 million to give in grants to robotics programs around the country to create robot-led agricultural advances.”
London’s Secret Circuitry
I’ve got a new piece up over at The Daily Beast about London’s Hatton Garden heist—in a sense, a preview of many themes from my forthcoming book, A Burglar’s Guide to the City, including the idea that “the tools and techniques of breaking and entering are more often than not also those of architectural construction and maintenance.”
The Perfect Wave
“Its face, speed, power, and shape put it in league with world-class breaks—something no other artificial wave has managed before”: on the possibility of a perfect artificial wave created for competitive surfing.