Toyota wants to evolve from a car-maker to a mobility company. An anonymous reader shares a report: To do that, it’s launching Kinto, a new brand that will provide full-service leasing, car sharing, carpooling and subscription-based leases. Unfortunately, those offerings will only be available in Europe. Toyota is evaluating other services, like ride-hailing and a multi-modal app, and says it will…
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What’s new on Coursera for Business – December 2019
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant Coursera’s university and industry partners launched over 50 courses in December to round out 2019. Our new courses range in topic from the data-heavy – including new AI, cloud, and analytics courses – to cultural intelligence, public health, security management, and business English. Here are our top picks […]
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Electric Buses on London’s 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence
Matt Burgess, writing for Wired UK: Last year London’s 8,000 or so buses traveled 279 million miles and completed 2.23 billion journeys — more than half of all bus trips completed in England. But they’re not green enough. Yet. According to mayor Sadiq Khan, London has Europe’s biggest electric bus fleet with more than 200 currently in use. It’s a small…
Uber Joins Forces With Joby Aviation To Launch An Air Taxi Service By 2023
Uber is joining forces with California-based aerospace company Joby Aviation to launch urban air-taxi services in select locations by 2023. The Verge reports: Joby is the brainchild of inventor JoeBen Bevirt, who started the company in 2009. The company operated in relative obscurity until 2018, when Joby announced it had raised a surprising $100 million from a variety of investors, including…
Astronomers spy the Geminid meteors’ dust trail in space
Astronomers held a press conference this week to discuss the trail of dust left by 3200 Phaethon – the mysterious, blue rock-comet that spawns the Geminid meteor shower each year. This object was one of the 1st to blur the distinction between asteroids and comets. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/rock-comet-3200-phaethon-geminid-meteor-shower…
Homo sapiens? Genetic insights suggest we may not really be a species
Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-100-homo-sapiens-genetic-insights-suggest-we-may-not-really-be-a-species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
We’re beginning to question the idea of species – including our own
Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432601-100-were-beginning-to-question-the-idea-of-species-including-our-own/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Ford Says It Has Nothing To Prove To Tesla In F-150 Vs Cybertruck Tow Battle
Sadly, it’s looking like the Ford F-150 versus Tesla Cybertruck tow battle probably won’t happen. TechCrunch reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk poked the figurative Dearborn, Michigan bear in the middle of the company’s Cybertruck unveiling when he played a video of the futuristic electric truck pulling an F-150 in what was pitched as a head-to-head contest. Many were quick to question…
Honda Works On Second EV, Quits Diesel, and Puts Hydrogen On Hold
Socguy writes: In late October, at Honda’s “Electric Vision” event in Amsterdam, the company said it was “electrifying” its entire product line, which mostly means hybrids. “We will bring further battery-electric products to the market,” they said. At the same time it would seem, diesel and hydrogen are on the way out. Katsushi Inoue, Honda Europe’s president, said: “Maybe hydrogen fuel…
Volvo To Roll Out a New Electric Vehicle Every Year Through 2025
Volvo Car Group President and CEO Hakan Samuelsson laid out the company’s new business strategy that includes introducing a new EV every year through 2025 and slashing the carbon footprint of the lifecycle of every car and SUV it builds by 40%. All of the changes are aimed at Volvo Cars’ target to become a climate neutral company by 2040. TechCrunch…