Everybody seems to have a piece of the planning puzzle, but the key to putting it all together is psychological There are a lot of lads throwing shapes about infrastructure these days. On Wednesday, an ambitious plan was published by the Government and the usual gaggle of tech bros, academics, economists, lawyers, journalists and activists held forth on their favourite subject.
The agreement comes with up to $39.5 million, matching the amount promised to Webequie First Nation through an agreement it signed with the province last month. The province also signed a shared prosperity agreement with Aroland First Nation in January. Premier Doug Ford says unlocking critical minerals in the Ring of Fire a crescent-shaped mineral deposit in the James Bay lowlands in northwestern Ontario will add $22 billion to Canada's economy and create 70,000 new jobs.
Everyone yearns for a good work-life balance, and some people love the idea of exploring a little more of the world while working remotely. Some countries are set up for both-offering accessible digital nomad visas and great infrastructure, ranking highly in several recent expert reports across both categories. What's more, these five countries-Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, and Norway-have also recently topped the best places to travel in 2026 lists. Here's why.
The European Commission sketched out a world where trains could reach speeds well above 250km per hour, when feasible, to ensure faster connections across the continent. If the plan is realised, rail passengers could travel betweenthe German and Danish capitals in four hours by 2030, instead of seven hours today, while Sofia and Athens would be just six hours apart by 2035, instead of nearly 14.
Today, as global challenges demand more adaptive and human-centered responses, architects are rethinking what infrastructure can be: not just a framework for movement and utility, but a catalyst for ecological restoration, cultural continuity, and civic imagination. The following unbuilt projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community, explore this expanded role of infrastructure, where airports, bridges, industrial parks, and pedestrian networks become architectural
"Iraq is the best it's ever been," Khudair al-Ali, a young man who works for one of Iraq's oil companies but drives cars for Careem, the Middle East's version of Uber, on weekends, enthuses. "But we still have problems," he says, gesturing at potholes he's trying to avoid. "The streets need to be fixed and there are too many cars in Baghdad."
Amazon has invested $52.3 billion in New York since 2010, including infrastructure and compensation to employees. The company has contributed $46 billion to the state's economy. Amazon partners with 20 New York educational institutions through its Career Choice program, offering employees prepaid tuition for skills development. More than 769 million items were sold by New York-based independent sellers through Amazon's store in 2024.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After decades of planning, a project is moving forward to reinforce San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge for major earthquakes. The Highway and Transportation District voted Friday to authorize the $1 billion project. This four-phase seismic retrofit is expected to take 11 years to complete. Now that the contract has been approved, construction is expected to start in 2026.
The Grand Central Terminal subway station upgrade is finally complete after five years of construction work, on time and under budget, MTA officials said on Tuesday. Marc A. Hermann / MTA The Grand Central Terminal subway station upgrade is finally complete after five years of construction work, on time and under budget, MTA officials said on Tuesday. The work includes a new mezzanine floor to offer a more sprawling appeal and more space for commuters to traverse the iconic station.
Artificial intelligence is spreading faster than any technology in history - but billions of people are being left behind. That's the conclusion of Microsoft's new "AI Diffusion Report," which maps how AI use, infrastructure, and innovation are spreading globally. The company said that more than 1.2 billion people now use AI tools, a rate of adoption that it said has outpaced electricity, computers, and the internet. Yet this rapid diffusion is uneven.
BRAVE, the radically human supply-side platform (SSP), today (23rd October, 2025) announced the expansion of its global infrastructure with new server deployments in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The move is part of BRAVE's ongoing investment in building a faster, more resilient, and localised programmatic foundation for its growing network of publishers and demand partners. In collaboration with global infrastructure-as-a-service company servers.com, BRAVE is nowexpanding its data centres in Singapore
The White House's decision, announced during the government shutdown, seems designed to put pressure on Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leaders in the Senate and House respectively, who both happen to represent New York State. But the specific way in which Donald Trump has decided to block the projects-by imposing an onerous regulatory-review process-is a troubling omen of how he might broadly undermine development across the country.
Shortly after the first government shutdown since 2019 began earlier this month, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced that he was freezing $8 billion in infrastructure projects exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. The projects that Vought consigned to funding purgatory included a multibillion-dollar renovation and expansion of the Hudson Tunnel from New Jersey to New York City and an extension of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line.
There's been a lot going on and we almost forget that the federal government is approaching its third week of shutdown. The administration has used the time to cancel and pause billions in grants in the places you might guess. Tony Romm and Lazaro Gamio for the New York Times have the analysis.
I'm going tell you about an audacious idea that sounds almost impossible, one that is rooted in dreams about symbolic and literal unity of our nation. It is both a distraction from and answer to our country's problems in 2025, and it relies on an unshakeable faith in humanity and community. It reaches into the future while looking into the past, and stepping foot on it can change a person's life.
The BCC's budget submission focuses on policies to encourage investment, strengthen the workforce, support exports and develop infrastructure. The BCCs top four recommendations are for the Chancellor not to make more taxes on business, alongside reforming business rates and the axing of the windfall tax on oil and gas Labour should prioritise infrastructure investment and approval, including more rail projects, alongside a new runway at Heathrow and continued support for Gatwick and Luton.
The work began in late 2019, when the city transportation department hired the company Judlau for $101 million to replace corroding steel and decking along the Riverside Drive Viaduct, which towers above the West Side Highway between 153rd And 161st streets. The roadway, which was built in 1928 and last saw major repairs in 1985, had "limited remaining life," city engineers said at the time.
All those (AI) agents need management, automation, scalability control, maintenance, testing and orchestration. This was the central remit that CamundaCon set out to explore. Camunda's process orchestration and automation conference was held this month at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. With end-to-end orchestration in its sights, did the company manage to deliver on its promise of "AI with no BS" (as the banner read on the hotel exterior) or would this event fuel more of the AI hype-cycle?
Kansas has made available $23 million to improve broadband infrastructure through the Kansas Broadband Acceleration Grant (BAG) program. Providers will be able to offset capital expenses they need to deploy service in unserved areas of Kansas with state grants of up to $2 million. Applications will be accepted from today, October 3, through the end of the month. The BAG program is in its fifth year.
A hole opened on a crumbling sidewalk near Battery Park that briefly gave passersby a peephole into the subway - and a reality check about how thin the ground actually is. The baseball-sized hole in the asphalt of Battery Place and State Street opened sometime last week, according to a hair-raising Instagram video, but it has since been covered with an orange traffic cone bolted to the ground.
Curran's argument is that as we become more and more connected, we increase our collective vulnerability to mass-scale breakdowns and manipulation. While he certainly isn't the first to point out that our increasingly digital lives come at a cost, the scholar warn s that it will take a "systemic digital crisis" before anything changes. As Curran puts it: "there are good reasons to believe that little will be done about these risks until a massive society-wide crisis emerges."
"Climate tech" isn't a thing. It has shifted in recent years from a category to define clean energy companies to an umbrella phrase that loses meaning the more we use it. Granted, the term is everywhere: inserted into VC pitch decks, plastered on billboards along highways from San Francisco to Austin to Boston, wedged into government policy papers, and featured prominently on conference agendas. Media properties from CNBC to GreenBiz rely on it as a traffic-driving category.
I was supposed to do four years, go through university and head back home for family business, decided I liked tech too much. I got my first job at EMC running their networks across I would say a few hundred offices, which was really interesting. From there, I made my way into an ops role, which is where a lot of what we do at RapDev began.
