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A strip mall lot built for 200 cars sits nearly empty most of the day, and economists find America’s surplus parking now costs over a trillion dollars yearly

Transportation researchers find the US carries roughly five parking spaces per vehicle, a hidden cost topping a trillion ...
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Messaging has replaced most phone calls for 37% of Americans, YouGov finds

A new YouGov survey finds 68% of Americans say messaging has replaced at least some phone calls, with millennials leading the shift.
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A backyard geothermal loop sunk feet from the next one, and shared boreholes slowly chill the ground so output fades for decades, engineers find

Ground source heat pumps promise endless free heat, but dense borehole fields can chill the surrounding earth and cut output ...
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A decentralized rival gained 10 million users in two months, but its app has shed over half its active base while Threads grew past 147 million

Bluesky's monthly active users have fallen over 50% from their peak even as registrations climb, while Meta's Threads surges past 147 million daily users.
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A streaming app has crossed 10 million households, closing in on the cable operator that still leads US pay television, and the entire industry model is flipping with it

A streaming TV app passed 10 million subscribers this year, overtaking Charter Spectrum as the largest pay TV provider in the US.
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Startup taps underwater volcano for world’s first subsea geothermal test

Endurance Energy drilled a subsea geothermal well into an underwater volcano off Oregon, proving net-positive power generation on the seafloor.