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Hydroelectric dams are usually major infrastructure projects that costs tens of millions of dollars to construct. But they don’t have to be — you can build your own at home, …read more Continue reading A Hydroelectric Dam, Built Out of LEGO
Here are the top DAM solutions, compare their features, pricing, and benefits to find the perfect solution for organizing and managing your digital assets. Continue reading 8 Best Digital Asset Management Software for 2023
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” is a common tech support maneuver that everyone already seems to know and apply to just about all the wonky tech …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 6, 2023
Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in minature. Cars, horses, little Lego houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized …read more Continue reading Miniature Concrete Hoover Damn Is Tiny Engineering Done Right
Ethiopia is in the midst of a major nation-building project, constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Upon completion, GERD will become the largest hydropower plant in Africa, providing much …read more Continue reading Solar And Wind Could Help Support Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Project
More than two years ago, the largest dam in the United States experienced a catastrophic failure of its main spillway, the primary means by which operators of the dam prevent the lake from cresting its pen. The spillway failure caused so much erosion that the hydroelectric plant could not operate, …read more
Continue reading Repairing a Catastrophic Failure: The Oroville Dam Update
More than two years ago, the largest dam in the United States experienced a catastrophic failure of its main spillway, the primary means by which operators of the dam prevent the lake from cresting its pen. The spillway failure caused so much erosion that the hydroelectric plant could not operate, …read more
Continue reading Repairing a Catastrophic Failure: The Oroville Dam Update
Imperva SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) offers multiple deployment modes, including managing your gateways in a cluster. There are four steps to configuring a gateway cluster and we’ll be discussing them in this post. Bu… Continue reading Database Activity Monitoring: Configuring a Cluster in Four Easy Steps
Bynder, one of the leading companies in the digital asset management space, today announced that it has acquired Shutterstock‘s Webdam. The Amsterdam-based company tells us that it paid $49.1 million for Webdam, which Shutterstock itself ac… Continue reading Bynder acquires digital asset management service Webdam from Shutterstock for $49.1M
Infrastructure seems so permanent and mundane that most of us never give it a second thought. Maintenance doesn’t make for a flashy news story, but you will frequently find a nagging story on the inside pages of the news cycle discussing the slowly degrading, crumbling infrastructure in the United States.
If not given proper attention, it’s easy for these structures to fall into a state of disrepair until one suddenly, and often catastrophically, fails. We’ve already looked at a precarious dam situation currently playing out in California, and although engineers have that situation under control for now, other times we …read more
Continue reading Failing Infrastructure and the Lessons It Teaches