The Rio-Antirrio Bridge, with its triangular sections resembling giant sails, is the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge, spanning 2,880 meters across the Rion Strait. Completed in 2004, it transformed travel between the Peloponnese and mainland Greece, reducing ferry crossing times significantly. The views from the bridge are breathtaking, offering glimpses of the indigo waters and majestic mountain ranges.
Plenty of jobs still require a desk, a badge, and a commute, but not all of them. Fully remote careers are picking up speed in places that used to expect face time, literally. A new FlexJobs report tracked where remote postings increased most during 2025. The list brings some surprises, along with a few steady risers now going full remote more than ever before.
While many countries are seeing a slowdown in international academic mobility, Germany is bucking the trend - attracting record numbers of foreign students and researchers year after year. Germany's reputation as an open and welcoming destination for international students continues to grow, even as global trends point towards increased renationalisation and reduced cross-border movement. The latest figures from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) confirm that student bodies at German universities are more international than ever before.
The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten's life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: "Elevators!" The article that followed, in April, 2008, is titled "Up and Then Down." It is the story of a man named Nicholas White-who was trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building, in midtown Manhattan, for forty-one hours-and also a study of "elevatoring," a delicious word for the discipline of designing vertical transportation.
"The driver behind everything new in finance over the past 30 years has been innovation," Lenz told Business Insider. He added that technological advances continually spur change in the financial world, keeping the role of a fintech engineer both compelling and essential.
The Titan's design resembles a predatory cat, emphasizing a low-slung silhouette that exudes a drag racing DNA, enhancing its aggressive appearance and performance.
"Hire a bunch of these people," he said in a Monday interview on the a16z podcast, "because they're going to flip your company on its head in terms of how much faster the organization can run."
This investment aims to develop the skills of Go-Ahead's 900 engineers across the UK & Ireland, part of a commitment to a fully zero-emission fleet by 2035.
Atlassian migrated over 4 million Jira PostgreSQL databases to Amazon Aurora to improve reliability and reduce costs, developing custom orchestration tools for the transition.
Mark Wood, social sustainability lead at Siemens GB&I, praised the competition's intensity and highlighted Muhammad's achievement with his decentralized communication system, which offers great potential for various uses.
The Centriflug introduces a whole new twist, spinning as it takes off and flies, creating a mesmerizing whirling effect that's visually stunning and mechanically intriguing.
