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Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Right Before Joe Biden’s Visit to Promote Infrastructure

Amazingly, no one is currently believed to have been killed or received life-threatening injuries from the disaster.

Google Contractors in Pennsylvania Vote to Unionize

A group of Pittsburgh-based Google contractors is among the first in the company’s history to unionize, following a successful vote this afternoon, 49 to 24. The 80 or so analysts and machine learning trainers will become part of the United Steelworkers Union. “I’m honored that HCL workers chose to join our union and our fight…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Uber Says It’s Bringing Self-Driving Cars Back to Pittsburgh, Mayor Does a Spit Take

Following an announcement Wednesday that Uber will lay off about 300 employees and close up shop on its self-driving car testing operations in Arizona, the company revealed it would revive the program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Uber apparently did not bother to run that idea by the mayor of the city, as he was completely blindsided…

Tech News AJ Dellinger

Uber Plans to Put Self-Driving Cars Back on the Road ‘Within the Next Few Months’ After Fatal Crash

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that the company plans to put self-driving cars back on the road “within the next few months.” The transportation company suspended tests in March after one of its vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. The incident is believed to be the first human death from an autonomous car.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Pittsburgh’s Hope for Bipartisan Environmentalism

PITTSBURGH—Transitioning to clean energy, particularly in a city built on steel and surrounded by defunct coal mines, is always politically tricky. But Pittsburgh is trying to create its own equitable, bipartisan approach to what’s traditionally been a far-left ideal: decarbonization and emissions reductions. Pittsburgh’s mayor, Bill Peduto, pledged all city-owned buildings will be 100% renewable…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

Pittsburgh Is Going Green, But Who Is Getting Left Behind?

PITTSBURGH — America’s storied “Steel City” is on the forefront of an energy revolution, transitioning from its long reliance on fossil fuels to renewables and energy efficient homes. In June, Mayor Bill Peduto joined an alliance of over 100 cities committing to solar and wind power. The announcement came only hours after President Trump made…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

Who Does This Self-Driving Cadillac CT6 Belong To?

An anonymous tipster shared a photo of a Cadillac CT6, outfitted with autonomous driving sensors and scanners, which they spotted parked in Pittsburgh yesterday. Pittsburgh has become a hub of the self-driving tech scene because of its proximity to Carnegie Mellon University and its renowned robotics program, as well as the state’s relatively lax rules…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski and Kate Conger

Emails Reveal Shady Relationship Between Uber CEO and Pittsburgh’s Mayor

Emails obtained by Motherboard show that Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has an extremely cozy relationship with Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick. The mayor has actively attempted to influence government proceedings on behalf of the ride-sharing giant. https://jalopnik.com/are-ubers-self-driving-cars-driving-like-asshats-around-1787451574 Uber has faced accusations of running roughshod over local regulatory processes before. The emails obtained through a Pennsylvania Right…

Tech News Rhett Jones

A 500-Pound Meteor Lit Up the Pittsburgh Sky Last Night

NASA reports that it observed a 500-pound meteor, around two-feet in diameter, which zipped through the Earth’s atmosphere above Pittsburgh last night. If you were in the vicinity, you may well have just noticed it. The lump of rock passed by at about 45,000 miles per hour. While it fell from visibility at an altitude…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

How Pittsburgh Airport Will Frack for Gas Under Active Runways

Pittsburgh International Airport has seen better days. Saddled with debt from building now unused gates, the troubled airport is expanding into a completely different business: fracking. The airport will stay open as drillers tap the gas reserves underneath, thanks to a technique called horizontal drilling. Horizontal drilling was first developed decades ago, but it’s come…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Tour the Nine Steepest Residential Streets in America

As a big urban walker, I like to head for the hills. So when I stumbled upon this list of the steepest streets in the U.S., I just had to see what they looked like, and I started planning a trip to hit all of the most insanely steep stretches of our American streets. The…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Before environmental regulations, Pittsburgh looked like the capital of Hell

After World War II, Pittsburgh finally enacted smoke control laws to curb the release of coal emissions into the city. But prior to citizens’ grassroot environmental reform efforts, this industrial murk enveloped buildings and streets in darkness and transformed day into the inky evening. Here’s a collection of Pittsburgh street scenes from the 1940s and…

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Goats Have Accents!

Not only do pygmy goats have accents, but they tend to pick up the characteristic “BAAAAAAAAAAA” of the locals bleating around them. Scientists already knew that bats, whales and, of course, humans tend to pick up the vocal mannerisms they’re surrounded by. Now, researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

How does one drive a 340-ton boulder into Los Angeles?

From the annals of moving large objects come two stories, one of a rock, the other a bridge. A very large boulder is on its way to Los Angeles, we read in the New York Times this morning: a 340-ton rock on a journey moving “through the heart of one of the most congested urban…

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The Milk Truck Rescues Breastfeeding Mamas in Pittsburgh

The Milk Truck is part art work, part public service. It was created by Jill Miller for an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’ll also travel the streets providing a safe place for nursing mothers. The truck was converted into a mobile nursing station with cozy benches, chairs and rugs. Moms…

Tech News Kelly

A Batman Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the streets of Pittsburgh

Given that all things Dark Knight Rises have momentarily taken over the Pittsburgh news cycle, it should be unsurprising that pranksters at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (near the film’s shooting) bestowed the cowl upon their campus’ Tyrannosaurus Rex statue. And here I thought that dinosaur trophy in the Batcave was getting a totally unexpected…

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Profoundly stupid carjacker blames his crime on The Dark Knight Rises

Pittsburgh was plunged into a Tinseltown tizzy yesterday when The Dark Knight Rises dropped by to film some fight scenes. Unfortunately, the shoot also brought out the city’s criminal lot, which was less cowardly and superstitious and more unlucky and dumb. https://gizmodo.com/tremble-before-banes-full-costume-from-the-dark-knight-5826294 Last night, a would-be carjacker attempted to purloin a police vehicle from a…

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Thieves Steal Wire from Power Station and Kill Electricity for Thousands

Breaking into an electrical substation to swipe copper cable is about as stupid as siphoning gas from a moving 18-wheeler, but if it’s botched, you only hurt yourself. Pennsylvanian idiot thieves tried the former and turned off the lights. Not only was their covert theft of all of the copper ground wire a desperate crime,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Pittsburgh Is Having A Ninja Problem

The greater Pittsburgh area has been contending with a very annoying ninja infestation lately. If you’ve ever had a ninja problem yourself, you know that they’re really hard to get rid of, and if you see one, you can be sure there’s hundreds more where he came from. The most recent outbreak occurred when a…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Ninja crime is on the rise in Pittsburgh

We’ve always trumpeted local news as the most exciting news, and this report only validates our claims further. A ninja in Pittsburgh enacted shinobi vengeance against some hapless parked cars last Sunday, and local news was asking the hard questions. https://gizmodo.com/carnivorous-space-cacti-on-the-loose-in-roswell-news-a-5791810 According to an eyewitness, Sunday’s ninja was likely a drunk ninja, which (as we…

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Right Before Joe Biden’s Visit to Promote Infrastructure

Google Contractors in Pennsylvania Vote to Unionize

Uber Says It’s Bringing Self-Driving Cars Back to Pittsburgh, Mayor Does a Spit Take

Uber Plans to Put Self-Driving Cars Back on the Road ‘Within the Next Few Months’ After Fatal Crash

Pittsburgh’s Hope for Bipartisan Environmentalism

Pittsburgh Is Going Green, But Who Is Getting Left Behind?

Who Does This Self-Driving Cadillac CT6 Belong To?

Emails Reveal Shady Relationship Between Uber CEO and Pittsburgh’s Mayor

A 500-Pound Meteor Lit Up the Pittsburgh Sky Last Night

How Pittsburgh Airport Will Frack for Gas Under Active Runways

Tour the Nine Steepest Residential Streets in America

Before environmental regulations, Pittsburgh looked like the capital of Hell

Goats Have Accents!

How does one drive a 340-ton boulder into Los Angeles?

The Milk Truck Rescues Breastfeeding Mamas in Pittsburgh

A Batman Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the streets of Pittsburgh

Profoundly stupid carjacker blames his crime on The Dark Knight Rises

Thieves Steal Wire from Power Station and Kill Electricity for Thousands

Pittsburgh Is Having A Ninja Problem

Ninja crime is on the rise in Pittsburgh

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