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Why sustainable transportation needs 5G connectivity and digitalisation

CIO Business Intelligence

Decarbonising transportation through electrification is critical to helping companies and economies meet net-zero emissions targets. Fortunately, three forces are combining to make this vision for sustainable transportation a reality: connectivity, digitalisation, and cross-sector collaboration.

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Health savings account custodian HealthEquity acquires Seattle transportation startup Luum

GeekWire

Hall previously spent a decade at Microsoft before helping launch Luum nine years ago with former Microsoft colleague Tyler Simpson , who is Luum’s CTO. million in the third quarter, up 14%, and non-GAAP net income of $32.2 Luum has 50 employees; all will be joining HealthEquity, which employs more than 3,000 people. million.

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Chunghwa Telecom’s ODA-inspired operation automation

TM Forum

fold reduction in digital service launch time from four months to nine days; autonomous transport network operations optimized to be five times faster, with CapEx reduced 16% per year; Net Promotor Score improved by 1.3 That’s easy to type but difficult to execute, says Dr. Rong-Shy Lin, SEVP and CTO, CHT. Results: 7.5-fold

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. “If commercial fusion energy becomes available by the end of this decade, it could ease all the various possible pathways to [carbon] net-zero by 2050.” ”

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Electric robotaxis may not be the climate solution we were led to believe

The Verge

Transportation is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, with the most significant share coming from light-duty vehicles, personal cars, vans, trucks, and SUVs. Transportation emissions are likely to rise due to the initiation of car trips that — in the absence of electric robocabs — would not be completed”.

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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news for SAP is that many of the customers adopting its cloud-based S/4HANA offering are net-new, meaning more market share. That technology is the focus of another big change for Rise with SAP: the arrival of a new price tier, Premium Plus. ERP Systems, Private Cloud

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

GeekWire

. “We’re proposing to combine the hypersonic research of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and some of those geometries, with reusable rockets to attack the trillion-dollar air transportation market instead of the $11 billion space launch market.” The company has been awarded $2.25

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