To decrease the number of cars on the road and encourage people to use public transport, DART is now providing passengers the option of multi-modal trip planning on its mobile application. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is taking big steps to ensure riders have all the options they need. Besides buying bus or train tickets with DART’s...
Liverpool City Council has partnered with the Poseidon Foundation to help offset its carbon emissions. The year-long trial is intended to help Liverpool become the first local authority in the UK to become ‘climate positive’.This means that the city will help remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits each year. Finance start-...
Top European investors Atomico and Index Ventures have separately made bets on two US electric scooter startups, hoping to win big on the buzzy trend before it takes off globally. Atomico has invested an undisclosed amount in Lime, while Index Ventures led Bird's $100 million Series B round earlier this year. Bird and Lime are both...
Every day can be Bring Your Child to Work day at co-working spaces designed specifically for the working mom in mind. The cultural conversation about equality in the workplace has pushed the issue of childcare to the forefront, and these brands are responding by creating work environments where women can pursue their careers knowing their...
Tiny Homes have become an ever more popular notion for those looking for a small but perfectly formed house. But what if you’re more of a water dwelling person? Well, you’re in luck because Canadian workshop Daigno have just announced Le Koroc, their very own Tiny Boat House. Whilst house boats are, of course, nothing new, chances are you won’t...
Hold still while Vincent van Bot paints your portrait. The RobotArt gallery has amassed an impressive collection to show what the world’s most creative androids and algorithms (and their creators) have come up with. The teams used a number of different approaches, showing that there are a hell of a lot of ways to interpret “artwork created by...
Four years ago, the United Kingdom’s Home Office (the department responsible for immigration, security, and law enforcement) proposed developing a national strategy concerning biometrics, the biological measurements that can identify specific people, such as DNA or fingerprints. Now, the department created a report, titled, “Biometrics Strategy...
The fleet will initially comprise four Renault ZOE all-electric cars equipped with Renault and Transdev technologies. At a later date, a shuttle using Transdev technologies will complete the fleet. The vehicles will run on three circuits covering a distance of ten kilometres in Rouen’s Technopole du Madrillet (Saint Etienne du Rouvray). After...
Wireless Charging enables electric energy from the mains supply to be transmitted to a vehicle’s high-voltage battery without any cables – when the vehicle is positioned over a base pad. This can be installed in the garage, for example, and the charging process started as soon as the vehicle has been parked in position (without any further...
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, self actualization is at the top of the human pyramid of human needs. Maximizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, and spiritual growth is what many rich people do after they have their more basic needs covered. Rich people hotel chain Four Seasons is aware that there are more rich people than ever...