FIFA’s decision to use connected ball technology during this year’s World Cup is making it difficult for Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to claim a goal during yesterday’s match with Uruguay. He says his head touched the ball before it went in, but Adidas says the ball showed no contact.
A half dozen cities and states have been ghosted by Musk’s tunneling venture. It seems that once things get serious, and governments start talking about permitting and environmental review, the Boring Company vanishes. Take Maryland for example:
An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the company’s then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Beckett’s play about a man who never shows up.
The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.
All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.
That translates to around 1,500 workers, which is not totally surprising, considering the used car dealer has lost almost 98 percent of its value in recent weeks. Carvana’s rapid growth during the pandemic appears to have run into the same economic headwinds many tech companies are now facing. Not unrelated, you can get a 2012 Honda Fit for about $14,000 delivered on Tuesday.
