Why can’t California’s fire-prone power lines be buried underground, out of harm’s way? That was the question many were asking this week as hundreds of thousands of customers lost power in the Sacramento and San Francisco areas in preemptive shutoffs by Paci…
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Month: October 2019
Shocking video shows Tesla driver SLEEPING behind the wheel as his car speeds down the highway
An undisclosed California driver shot cell phone video of an unidentified Tesla driver conked out Monday afternoon while his vehicle was in autopilot Another Tesla driver has been caught on video sleeping behind the wheel. An undisclosed California driver s…
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Toucaan-Rethinking CSS Frameworks
[Status: Draft] [Last update: October, 10th 2019.] TLDR; This is the first of the many chapters on a new CSS framework called Toucaan. In this introductory post we talk about the new landscape of the web, consider miniature viewports like that of the Apple …
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Oil Markets On Edge As Tensions Mount In The Middle East
Oil prices got a slight 2% boost Friday when Iranians claimed that someone aimed suspected missiles at one of its oil tankers as it traversed the Red Sea, some 60 miles from Saudi Arabia, causing mild damage to the tanker itself and oil to spill into the Red …
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California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not just bury them?
Los Angeles authorities say about 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire on the northern edge of the city in the San Fernando Valley area. (Oct. 11) AP Domestic Story Highlights Experts say the answer is sim…
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