To build this dam, engineers first drowned a waterfall twice the size of Niagara. You could hear it roaring from 20 miles away. Then they made one of the world's biggest rivers move out of the way, just to clear room for the construction site.It's the Itaipu Dam, on the Paraná River where Brazil meets Paraguay. Work started in 1975, and the first job was the river itself. Crews spent three years carving a 1.2-mile channel through solid bedrock, 500 feet wide and 300 feet deep.They hauled away 50

The 44-storey 88 Nairobi has been under construction for 10 plus years. I have seen China build a taller building (57 storeys) in 19 days

APPLE JUST GOT HUMILIATED BY AN $8 JACKET BADGEA random Japanese maker saw Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro Persona and decided to build the same thing for the price of a pizza.Same real-time face mirroring. Same natural expressions and blinks. Same low latency reaction when you smile.Apple needed a full headset with M2 chip, R1 processor, 12 cameras and LiDAR.He did it with one ESP32, a tiny camera and MediaPipe running 468 landmarks on-device.Total cost: eight dollars.This is what happens when one we

Everyone wants to feel distinct and important and when you can’t build or create anything important you have to rely on consumption forgetting anyone with a credit card can do the same. These billion dollar industries exist to capture the narcissistic nature of humans.