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AUGUST 2017

TE C H B Y TE S

CODING FOR GIRL SCOUTS
Girl Scouts in the US can now
earn badges for coding,
hacking and cybersecurity
awareness. The new badges
have been introduced in
a bid to encourage more
young women to pursue
careers in the IT sector.

TR A N S P O R T

HYPERLOOP FOR THE UK?

Hyperloop One has announced its Vision One of these routes would link Cardiff and CITIZENS OF SPACE
For Europe – a series of proposed routes for Glasgow, via Bristol, Oxford, London, Asgardia, a ‘virtual nation’ set
Hyperloop transportation systems in Cambridge, Nottingham, Newcastle and up by a Russian scientist last
mainland Europe and the UK. Edinburgh. For this route, Hyperloop One year, already has some
First proposed by Elon Musk in 2012, has been working with engineering firm 200,000 citizens. And now it’s
Hyperloop is a hybrid electric/maglev AECOM. A second route, dubbed the launching its own small
system designed to shift people and cargo Northern Arc, has been proposed in satellite where all those
long distances at very high speeds, by association with architects Ryder and citizens’ data will be stored,
placing them in pressurised pods that travel engineering firm Arup, and would link along with Asgardia’s
through tubes in which a partial vacuum is Liverpool to Glasgow via Manchester, Leeds, flag, constitution and
maintained. There are several companies Newcastle and Edinburgh. Finally, the 13-month calendar.
and teams of scientists and engineers North-South Connector route, which has
working worldwide to develop Hyperloop been developed in association with students
systems, including Hyperloop One, and faculty at the University of Edinburgh TEMPERANCE TAG
Hyperloop Transport Technologies and Heriot-Watt University, would link Police in Lincolnshire are
and TransPod. London and Edinburgh via Manchester and trialling a leg-mounted tag
Citing the success of Eurostar trains in Birmingham. that, instead of tracking the
capturing 70 per cent of cross-Channel All three of the routes are, it should be movements of low-level
traffic in just a few years, Hyperloop’s stressed, strictly speculative propositions at offenders, monitors their
Vision For Europe proposes routes linking this stage. But the fact that so many leading alcohol intake. It’s designed to
Corsica to Sardinia, Spain to Morocco, and businesses and academic institutions ensure offenders stick to
Estonia to Finland. There are also suggested around the world are taking the Hyperloop booze-free conditions
routes in Germany, Poland and the project seriously suggests it may become a imposed as part of a
Netherlands, plus three in the UK. reality sooner than we think. community sentence.

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