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Moving Services Use The Gig Economy To Simplify Pricing For Consumers

PYMNTS

Currently, the service is in 22 cities and metro areas expanding across the Southwest, South and Mid-Atlantic regions from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C. We’d love to be in realistically all 50 states, barring maybe Alaska or Hawaii,” Miller said, adding that he hopes to be in the majority of U.S. states in the next two years.

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A Roadie For Everyone

PYMNTS

After a little under a year in business the app has 300K downloads and 22K drivers nationwide, even in far flung regions like Alaska and Hawaii. The app is also working on fine-tuning the routing patterns for its “Homeward Bound” program that connect drivers to deliveries that coincide with their daily commute.

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

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The Aquapod was transported through waters 3 to 75 miles off the west coast of the ‘Big Island’ of Hawaii, per the video below. Autonomous innovation in the deep seas. The facility has since been moved to Frohavet – an area off the coast of Norway’s Trøndelag region – where it will remain stationary.).

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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. AES claims that this project will be Hawaii’s largest utility-scale solar-plus-storage yet.