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Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

May 1, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology company, enamored, poop, pumps, silicon, underground, Valley

aBig brands are paying startup Vaulted Deep $58.3 million to shoot poop and other organic waste products into underground wells as a way to fight climate change. The deal was brokered by a group called Frontier Climate, which Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and McKinsey Sustainability launched in 2022 to support emerging climate tech. Specifically, Frontier is interested [...]read moreSilicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

Petrolheadonism Takes It Underground In London

April 20, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto London, Petrolheadonism, Takes, underground

The day before thousands of people converged on London for Petrolheadonism Underground 2024, there was a hive of activity at the Wembley Park venue as everyone involved applied the event’s finishing touches. Given the size of it, with around 1,000 cars across all genres on show, there was plenty for them to do – and [...]read morePetrolheadonism Takes It Underground In London

Underground Concert at Sunway Lagoon tomorrow – 4 stations on BRT Sunway Line extended till 1.30 am

March 1, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Auto BRT, Concert, Extended, Lagoon, line, Stations, Sunway, tomorrow, underground

Click to enlarge Rock fans, anyone going to the Underground Concert at Sunway Lagoon tomorrow? The three headlining bands are big names – Hujan, Bunkface and Butterfingers. Yes, the latter is still around! The concert will be at the Surf Beach at Sunway Lagoon tomorrow night. Rapid KL has announced an extension of the BRT [...]read moreUnderground Concert at Sunway Lagoon tomorrow – 4 stations on BRT Sunway Line extended till 1.30 am

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene

February 27, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology disk, Flop, floppy, music, Rock, scene, underground

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy. I’m briefly startled by the drive’s low mechanical whirring — a warm, ambient background score that instantly [...]read moreFlop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene