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Boston’s Thinking Of Building Canals Like Venice, Because Climate Change
Imagine taking a scenic gondola tour through Boston’s historic Back Bay as Red Sox fans saunter towards Fenway over arched bridges. Not far away, the Charles River Basin is padded by wetlands that soak up the rising sea water. This surreal scene, a sort of Venice in New England, could be the reality in a…
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Boston Police: Facial Recognition Didn’t Help Search For Bombers
While it’s undeniable that tech played a major part in helping hunt down the two Boston bombing suspects, it certainly wasn’t facial recognition that helped. Boston Police has admitted that its facial recognition system “did not identify” the suspects.
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Boston’s Big Dig: The Deadly Engineering Gift That Keeps On Giving
The Big Dig, a Boston engineering boondoggle that’s national news mostly because you helped us pay for it, is basically a death trap. It’s killed people already, and some precariously perched lights were apparently preparing to off a few more.
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This Is The Closest Thing Boston Had To A Website In 1945
The internet was 25 years away from inception when this photo was taken in 1945, but the Boston Globe had another way to rapidly disseminate breaking news amongst the masses: chalkboards in a busy city intersection. [Boston Globe]