Friday was not the first time a suspicious pipe had the bomb squad at Metrotown. Transit Police Spokesperson Anne Drennan says back in January they brought in an explosive sniffing dog after a Transit worker reported a suspicious pipe. It turned out to be a piece of construction equipment, like the pipe found Friday. Whether it's the same pipe, … [Read more...]
A downtown building has been damaged and workers sent home after a water pipe burst.
May 1, 2012 by
Massive flooding caused chaos at a downtown Vancouver highrise this morning. Some time overnight, a pipe burst on the 18th floor of the 32 storey Bentall Tower at Burrard and Dunsmuir, which houses several law firms and the Bank of Montreal. Several hundred workers were sent home because the power has been shut off below the 18th … [Read more...]
Terahertz bandwidth: the key to 1,000x faster smartphones, laptops and pipe dreams
March 13, 2012 by
Much like carbon nanotubes and quantum computing, terahertz technologies have been promising miracles for nearly as long as humans have been able to distinguish water from fire. We exaggerate, but barely. A crafty team assembled at the University of Pittsburgh seems to have no qualms with moving forward, however, recently announcing a new physical … [Read more...]
