A Man Designed His Dream Yacht but Couldn’t Afford It, so He Built It Himself at Home
TransportIt took Clyde Stires seven years to complete the project.
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Jeff Bezos Bought a New Private Jet and Has Flown on It 28 Times, Generating as Much Pollution as One Person Over 17 Years
TransportJeff Bezos debuts his $80 million private jet: 39 days of use, 28 flights and 264 tons of carbon dioxide. That’s the equivalent of what one person would pollute in 17 years.
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San Francisco Parents Are Using Waymo’s Self-Driving Robotaxis to Shuttle Their Kids Around. They Might Have Given the Company an Idea
TransportSending kids to school in a robotaxi might become more common in the future.
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‘I Think You Should Make It All Out of Glass’: The Fascinating Story of ‘Venus,’ Steve Jobs’ $120 Million Yacht
TransportSteve Jobs’ obsession with perfection extended to the design of his yacht.
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China Envisions a Future With Ultra-Light Carbon Fiber Subway Trains. It's Already Produced the First One
TransportIt’s ready to join Line 1 of the Qingdao in Shandong.
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The First Commercial Aircraft ‘Made in China’ Has Been a Success. It’s Preparing to Take On Airbus and Boeing
TransportIts first model has accumulated more than 1,000 reservations. The manufacturer is already preparing two other models.
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Submarines Are Key to U.S. Naval Dominance. China Now Knows How to Detect Them: With Bubbles
TransportThe key: extremely low-frequency electromagnetic signals.
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Gyro Monorail: A Railroad Engineering Marvel That Traveled on a Single Track and Never Lost Its Balance
TransportThe train had two giant gyroscopes inside that worked synchronously.
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America's Hypersonic Aircraft Has Been an Open Secret Since 2007. China Used the Intel to Get Ahead
TransportThe Lockheed SR-72 is the secret U.S. hypersonic aircraft that appeared in a movie and motivated China to reroute a radar.
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One of the Founders Behind the Titan, the Submersible That Sank While Searching for the Titanic, Is Back With a New Submarine
TransportThe latest venture by one of the OceanGate founders aims to explore one of the deepest vertical caves on Earth.
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The Last Time Millionaires Went to See the Titanic, It Didn’t End Well. Now Another Company Wants to Try Again
TransportBillionaire Larry Connor claims he will visit the Titanic wreckage in a submersible to prove it’s safe.
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Someone Has Created an Airline for Dogs–It’s Called Bark Air and It Just Had Its Inaugural Flight
MagnetOf course, tickets don’t come cheap.
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Titanic-Obsessed Billionaire Wants to Build Replica With One Key Difference: Iceberg Detection Systems
TransportThe colossal steel ship could weigh up to 56,000 tons and cost between $500 million and $1 billion to build.
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