NJ.com

PATH rolls out new payment system today, ending MetroCard, SmartLink era

Pour one out for the ancient MetroCard and its equally old cousin, the PATH SmartLink card. The beginning of the end for these longtime ways to pay fares on the bi-state PATH system came Thursday when ...
NPR

U.S. searches for critical minerals as push to counter China's dominance grows

The U.S. Geological Survey is carrying out a thorough search for critical and strategic minerals as the Trump administration seeks to re-shore domestic mining. Now we have a story about the hunt for ...
New York Post

Port Authority raising PATH fare to $4 — but there’s good news too

The cost of a single PATH train ticket is set to increase next spring — and will climb steadily each year until it hits $4 by 2029, Port Authority officials said. A single trip on the PATH train, ...
The White House

For Securing the Supply of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths through Mining and Processing

Whereas, the United States of America (the “United States” or “U.S.”) and Japan (together, the “Participants”) intend to support the supply of raw and processed critical minerals and rare earths ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
IEEE

Safety-Critical Path Planning for Obstacle Avoidance Based on Reinforcement Learning and Control Barrier Functions

Abstract: This article presents a safety-critical control framework for navigation in complex environments with numerous obstacles. An online robust path planning scheme is developed by integrating ...
The Diplomat

Pakistan’s Potential Path to Global Relevance Through Critical Minerals

With significant lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, zircon, and beryllium deposits, Pakistan’s untapped mineral wealth is estimated to be worth $6 trillion. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...
Reuters

US critical minerals list expands ahead of possible tariffs

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Aluminium, steel and copper have all been hit with steep U.S. import tariffs this year, upending physical supply chains and fracturing global pricing. Which metal is next ...
Federal Register

Float Glass Products From Malaysia: Preliminary Negative Critical Circumstances Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...
The Gazette

COLUMN: Dangerously Critical: A Leader’s Path to Better Thinking

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Every time I hear someone use the phrase “in times like these” in any of its versions, I cringe. "Times ...
Microsoft

Navigating cyber risks with Microsoft Security Exposure Management eBook

Imagine steering a vessel through Arctic waters where 90% of iceberg mass lies hidden beneath the surface; your lookouts equipped only with telescopes and blind to the submerged threats. This ...