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BU Completes 'Jenga Building', City's Greenest Tower - The Boston Globe

BU Completes ‘Jenga Building’, City’s Greenest Tower – The Boston Globe

Boston University’s new Center for Computing & Data Sciences will be the city’s greenest tower. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff When it opens to faculty and staff this month, and to students next month, the tower will be by far the tallest zero-carbon building in Boston, and likely all of New England. BU executives say it’s …

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San Francisco's killer robots threaten the city's most vulnerable

San Francisco’s killer robots threaten the city’s most vulnerable

One of the effects of AB 481 is to add local surveillance to hardware like that obtained through a US Department of Defense program that sends billions of dollars worth of military equipment such as armored vehicles and ammunition to local police departments. The program’s equipment was used against protesters following the police killings of …

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