The Wire: “At the Olympics of synthetic biology, 50 percent of the teams are Chinese—and counting. What does that mean for the future of the biotech industry?” @eliotcxchen https://t.co/VSgY0VBetg

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success. https://t.co/ljMNYqzheX

"developed" is such a lie. You are either growing, or dying.

Trevor Noah: " It feels like New York has, like many cities in the world, fallen into the trap of fixing what needs to be fixed for the wealthy, and then sort of ignoring or pushing aside the problems that affect the poor." Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have

In the UAE, the highest-denomination banknote (1000 dirhams) features a nuclear power plant. The Barakah station began electricity generation in 2021 and now provides approximately 25% of the United Arab Emirates' electricity needs. Wild and smart move for a country that sits

Most countries have little oil of their own. For those countries, an EV transition is freeing and goes hand-in-hand with national security.

The cost of Rome's new 31-station line that travels beneath the Colosseum is slated to be about $8.3 billion. That's about the same cost as NYC's three-stop Second Avenue subway extension, which will not dig beneath ancient sites. https://t.co/WQ80Vici5N

Barcelona, 1906. The Sagrada Família basilica in the background, 24 years into its construction.

I've never understood why Serbia has constant meltdowns about Kosovo, a mountainous area that's 90% Albanian, but was totally fine with Montenegro seceding, a similar sized area full of Serbs that gives access to the sea. Talk about priorities...

This was the skyline when the Empire State Building was completed:

@levelsio Actually a real phenomenon:

apparently the indonesian civil code was just never translated post independence. so despite the fact that approximately 0.0% of indonesians are dutch speakers, indonesian magistrates/jurists basically have to speak dutch & it remains the language of legal interpretation

Need a word for the phenomenon where people think things used to be nicer because the nice things are the only things from past eras that got preserved or photographed.

This brings the total nuclear reactors under construction in China to 30, followed by India (6) and Russia (5). There are no new nuclear reactors under construction in the US currently.

China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia's H200 and is rejecting the AI chip in favor of domestically developed semiconductors, White House AI czar David Sacks said, citing news reports

2.5 years later: same problem, the same question asked in different languages reflects the underlying political position of the government using that language.

@OECD

Per @OECD: Excluding AI-related investments (data center construction), US GDP contracted by 0.1%!

The child who made Syrians cry 14 years ago... The boy who said, "Bashar al-Assad killed us, what did we do to him?!" brought tears to the audience's eyes again at the Liberation Day commemoration event.

I lived with a Chinese EV for a few weeks to see if the hype is real. The car costs $42K, and turns out it feels like $75K+ EASILY One of the most impressive things I've ever reviewed: https://t.co/EHe358cvLt - A+ software and features. Feels like what would happen if Apple