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Toyota Brings Car Sharing To Hawaii

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Toyota has announced that it is offering a car share service for residents and visitors in Honolulu, Hawaii. The new mobility solution called Hui — a round-trip, station-based car share service — is operated by Servco Pacific ( Servco ), Toyota’s distributor in Hawaii.

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Digital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan

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The family trip to Disney World, the honeymoon to Hawaii, the 25-year anniversary spent in Paris — t he big trips people take aren’t just vacations or chances to see something new, but often mark the biggest events in people’s lives. Uplift, a B2B payments platform, was created to fill that innovation gap.

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Facebook Preps For ‘Make Or Break’ Meeting In Geneva

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The founding members are supposed to pony up $10 million each to back the crypto project, and in doing so commit to Libra operations, such as promoting the open-sourced blockchain and creating the digital currency from a basket of real (fiat) currencies. That long road suddenly seems a lot longer … and rockier.

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Why Tech Fails Can (Sometimes) Be Inconveniently Fun

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13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents and tourists that an incoming ballistic missile attack was imminent, tipping off waves of panic and terror as people scrambled for cover. For the hassles innovations cause, the conveniences are generally thought to outweigh the off-point of unexpected friction.

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Vacation Rental Startup Vacasa Clinches Funding

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We’re launching Hawaii and Montana later this year. We would typically operate a more self-service check-in for most of our markets,” he said. They have giant keys and other very irregular processes for operating and maintaining them.”. This means a total of about 1.5 million annual guests if Vacasa were to stay the same size.

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A New Kind Of Self-Sustaining Fishery Could Offset The Worst Impacts Of Animal Farming

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Commercial operation of offshore fish farms has been limited to date due to regulations, as well as the challenges of efficiently operating a large farming operation far from land. The Aquapod was transported through waters 3 to 75 miles off the west coast of the ‘Big Island’ of Hawaii, per the video below.

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Power Trip: New Technologies From Tesla, Mercedes, Ikea, And Others Could Hold The Key To Widespread Solar Adoption

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Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? Now, several innovative new methods for storing solar energy are gaining traction, from lithium-ion batteries to substances that have high heat-holding capacities, like molten salt. The Powerpack is meant to last ten years while operating daily. Tesla’s Powerpack.