Onomotion raises €21 million to expand e-cargo bike urban logistics business — TechCrunch

Berlin-based Onomotion has come up with a scalable way to do micromobility-powered urban logistics — cargo e-bikes with built-in cover from the elements and attachable containers. Today, Onomotion has a couple hundred vehicles on the road in Germany with logistics partners like UPS, DPD and Hermes. Over the next few years, the company wants to…

Onomotion raises €21 million to expand e-cargo bike urban logistics business — TechCrunch
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Sleep Tourism: A New Type-Trending Now

Going on a vacation might seem like a rather unconventional way to try to improve your sleep habits.

But sleep tourism has been growing in popularity for a number of years, with an increasing amount of sleep-focused stays popping up in hotels and resorts across the world.

Interest has skyrocketed since the pandemic, with a number of high profile establishments focusing their attention on those suffering from sleep-deprivation.

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Data Bleed

The term “data bleed” is now somewhat popular, but also a little hard to define, since the term itself is not well defined on the internet. In general, data bleed occurs when there is not transparency into data use, and users or other parties experience mysterious data quantification, or where data transfers happen without the express permission of the user.

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Claim: Clouds Less Climate-Sensitive than Assumed

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Airborne campaign solves parts of the riddle of clouds

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UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG

IMAGE:TRADE-WIND CLOUDS NEAR BARBADOS: ONE PLANE WAS USED TO DROP HUNDREDS OF ATMOSPHERIC PROBES FROM AN ALTITUDE OF NINE KILOMETERS.viewmore
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In a major field campaign in 2020, Dr. Raphaela Vogel who is now at Universitt Hamburg?s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) and an international team from theLaboratoire de Mtorologie Dynamiquein Paris and theMax Planck Institute for Meteorologyin Hamburg analyzed observational data they and others collected in fields of cumulus clouds near the Atlantic island of Barbados. Their analysis revealed that these clouds? contribution to climate warming has to be reassessed.

?Trade-wind clouds influence the climate system around the globe, but the data demonstrate behavior differently than previously assumed. Consequently, an extreme rise in Earth?s temperatures is less likely than previously thought,? says Vogel, an atmospheric scientist…

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