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The dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023
In a landmark settlement, several NYC landlords are paying restitution to tenants and the city. Continue reading Megalandlord Bought Rent-Controlled Apartments Then Forced Tenants Out of Them
NYC’s advice to nuclear war survivors is good, but it still supposes a world where the living don’t envy the dead. Continue reading ‘Don’t Ask Me Why’: NYC Releases Video About What to Do in Case of Nuclear War
It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near Times Square and hauled away like so much …read more Continue reading NYC Hangs Up Its Last Pay Phone
Cleanly, a snazzy laundry startup, promised NYC nurses and doctors “the gift of clean laundry.” Instead, it created a COVID-19 underwear catastrophe. Continue reading ‘WHERE IS THE REST OF MY LAUNDRY??’
Building new things in an existing city is hard. Usually, new development means tearing down existing structures. Doing so for apartment complexes or new skyscrapers is one thing, but infrastructure is much more complicated, both from an engineering perspective and an economical one. Not only do people not want to …read more
Continue reading Floating Power Plants; The Coastal City Solution Sure to Be Increasingly Popular
New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data. Continue reading New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data
Access to fast and affordable internet is a big issue in the USA, even in a major metropolis such as New York City. Amidst a cartel of ISPs who simply will not deliver, a group of NYC inhabitants first took it upon themselves to ease this situation by setting up …read more
Continue reading Connecting New York City To The Backbone: Meet NYC’s Mesh Network
The Sun is getting grumpy again after years of relative peace. Continue reading Weekend Solar Storm May Create Auroras As Far South As Vancouver and NYC
The year is 1894. You are designing a train system for a large city. Your boss informs you that the mayor’s office wants assurances that trains can’t have wrecks. The system will start small, but it is going to get big and complex over time with tracks crossing and switching. Remember, it is 1894, so computing and wireless tech are barely science fiction at this point. The answer — at least for the New York City subway system — is a clever system of signals and interlocks that make great use of the technology of the day. Bernard S. Greenberg …read more
Continue reading Low Tech High Safety and the NYC Subway System