Skyscraper

In the old days, humans had to identify sources, summarize the work and search for common meaning. Today, robots do the heavy lifting and you, the human, are left to do the creative work of prompting and interpreting the output for the rest of us. My tagline for the foreseeable future is: “I’m human. I’m helpful. Some of this is AI, and that’s OK.”This article explores how you can leverage AI tools to streamline the process of creating blog roundups and skyscraper posts – two effective content formats that,…

Two people were arrested, cited and released this week in connection with spray painting graffiti across more than two dozen stories of an unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities.On Tuesday around 12:43 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a vandalism call on South Figueroa Street, the site of the unfinished and long-idle Oceanwide Plaza development, the department said in a news release. The LAPD’s Air Support Division reported seeing more than a dozen suspects…

Taggers sprayed graffiti on at least 27 floors of a partially completed downtown Los Angeles skyscraper directly across from Crypto.com Arena at LA Live, which is planning to roll out the red carpet for Sunday’s Grammy Awards. It’s unclear how the taggers gained access to the massive Oceanside Plaza site, a $1-billion mixed-use project on Figueroa Street and has been stalled since 2019. Street photographer Daron Burgundy told KTLA-TV that that taggers had been busy spray painting the structure for the past three nights.…

In a world first, Polish pilot Luke Czepiela has successfully completed an incredible landing on Dubai's iconic Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. Using a customized fixed-wing CubCrafters Carbon Cub STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) airplane, he touched-down on the supertall skyscraper's helipad at a height of 212 m (695 ft) above the city, stopping with just a few meters to spare.The helipad was a tiny target for Czepiela to work with. His "runway," such as it was, provided a length of just 27 m (88.5 ft) to land and safely come to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Hilton Hotel was Nairobi's first skyscraper. The iconic cylindrical tower was opened in 1969 by President Jomo Kenyatta, six years after Kenya's independence from Britain. The recent closure of the hotel after more than 50 years of operation comes at a time of vertical transformation in the…

A planet-ending celestial object strikes the Earth every few million years. The asteroids that travel around the Sun in their elliptical paths also rotate, sometimes in a disorderly manner, according to NASA. Colossal asteroids have played a significant role in major historical incidents, such as the Chelyabinsk tragedy that resulted in numerous people getting injured, as well as the asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs millions of years ago. In effect, whenever asteroids have collided with Earth, they have…

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. must pay its former business partner SL Green Realty Corp. about $185 million in a dispute over a bankrupt Manhattan skyscraper, an arbitrator said. The arbitrator, former judge L. Priscilla Hall, found that real-estate investment trust SL Green was entitled to a $184.6 million payment over an investment that it made in HNA Group’s 245 Park Ave., according to documents made public in a New York state court Friday. SL Green should also be reimbursed for $856,000 in…