Transportation-focused weekly newsletter The Station. Click The Station to get the full newsletter in your inbox every weekend. Free signup. Welcome back to The Station, your hub for moving people and packages. EV charging has improved, but it cannot support the number of electric vehicles the Biden Administration wants on …
Read More »In Q4 2022, Jumia cut 20% of staff to cut losses by half
As part of its streamlining efforts, Jumia cut managerial headcount by 60% in Dubai and over 900 positions across its 11 markets, affecting 20% of its staff. Jumia’s FY2022 financials show this happened in Q4 last year. This follows the Jumia Supervisory Board’s note on senior management shake-ups when it …
Read More »Elon stands up, Akio Toyoda turns over the CEO keys, and Waymo faces layoffs
A weekly newsletter devoted to all things transportation is called The Station. Simply click The Station to sign up and receive the weekend edition of the newsletter in your inbox every week. Subscribe without cost. Welcome back to The Station, your go-to location for all people- and package-moving needs in …
Read More »A glimpse of the future as seen by Sam Altman
Sam Altman, the former CEO of Y Combinator and, as of 2019, the co-founder and co-CEO of OpenAI, the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity,” spent an hour with this editor late last week in …
Read More »Parisian scooters are at a turning point
What will become of the 15,000 vibrant electric scooters that are currently littering Paris’ streets? Their future may take a dramatic turn on March 23 as the French capital decides whether or not to renew licenses for the three scooter businesses that are currently doing business there. The three businesses …
Read More »Farmer-owned equipment can be repaired by John Deere
John Deere is, in a word, preeminent here in the United States. The American Economic Liberties Project, a nonprofit antitrust organization, reports that the firm has control over 60% of farm combines and 53% of the country’s large tractor market. Although it isn’t the only game in town, it might …
Read More »After hackers grab the source code, Okta confirms another intrusion
After a hacker gained access to its source code as a result of a breach of its GitHub repository, Okta has announced that it is reacting to another significant security incident. In a statement released on Wednesday, the leader in identification and authentication claimed that GitHub had alerted it to …
Read More »The Impact of Nuclear Fusion on the World
This month, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory accomplished nuclear fusion ignition for the first time. This important milestone demonstrates that controlled fusion, which releases more energy than it absorbs, is possible in the laboratory. Although there is a long way to go before fusion …
Read More »Greater Energy Capacity and No Capacity Loss With New Battery
According to recent study, scientists claim to have developed a brand-new kind of battery that does not lose capacity after charging cycles. The positive electrode material may pave the way for new electric vehicle batteries that do not have one of the biggest issues these vehicles currently experience, which is …
Read More »Ngrok, a platform for developers to launch websites, services, and apps, raises $50 million
Alan Shreve will tell you that he established Ngrok in order to address a challenging infrastructure issue he ran into while working at Twilio. Ngrok is a service that enables developers to share websites and applications that are running on their local computers or servers. As an engineer there, Shreve …
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