NIU has been rapidly expanding the availability of its seated electric scooters across Europe and North America, and I am happy to be one of the newest owners of NIU’s highest performance model, the NIU NQiGT Pro. Below you’ll find what delivery is like as well as my first impressions of this (spoiler alert!) awesome
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With its coastline buffeted by the chilly waters of the North Sea, it’s perhaps counterintuitive to think of the Netherlands as a place that cultivates large amounts of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Thanks in large part to its widespread adoption of greenhouse technology, however, it does. The sight of these structures, with their glass and
Waitrose is teaming up with Deliveroo so it can deliver groceries in just 30 minutes, with a retail expert telling Sky News that coronavirus could change the way we shop for good. The supermarket chain is making more than 500 of its food and drink products available on the delivery app as part of a
British street artist Banksy has reportedly funded a bright pink rescue boat to help refugees in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe from North Africa. Named Louise Michel after a 19th-century female French anarchist and teacher, the 31-metre motor yacht features some of Banksy‘s trademark art, including a girl in a life vest holding
Job losses at Gatwick caused by COVID-19 are on course to total more than 1,000 after the “dramatic” impact of the pandemic saw it plunge to a £344m half-year loss. The airport revealed that 740 employees have already left even before the 600 cuts announced in restructuring plans set out earlier this week. :: Follow
One of Britain’s oldest newspaper publishers is turning to the pensions lifeboat in a rescue deal that will involve steep haircuts for creditors and underline the crisis facing regional media groups amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sky News has learnt that Archant, whose titles include The New European and the Eastern Daily Press, has struck a
Jakob van Zyl, an engineer who held crucial positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was involved in numerous space exploration missions over decades, has died. He was 63. Van Zyl, who retired in 2019 after a 33-year career, suffered a heart attack on Monday and died Wednesday at a hospital in Pasadena, California, said
Water covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate. The puzzle was a step closer to being solved Thursday after a French team reported in the journal Science they had identified which space rocks were responsible,
Before Shinzo Abe came to power in 2012, the entrance to the Japanese prime minister’s office may as well have been a revolving door. From 1993 to 2012, there were 13 prime ministers (including Abe, in his year-long first term). Abe bucked that trend, remarkably. He became the country’s longest-serving prime minister earlier this month.
“It is now safe to go back” to work, a cabinet minister has told Sky News as the government prepares a push to get people back to the office. In a new advertising blitz next week, government messages will emphasise the benefits of employees returning to workplaces, as well as encouraging businesses to make their
Donald Trump has accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a speech which swung between a list of his “achievements” and an attack on what he called the “radicalism” of Joe Biden. During his 70 minute long speech on the White House lawn, he said the upcoming election would “decide whether we save the American Dream,
ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok website is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart and Microsoft might seem like an unlikely partnership to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets, but until very recently the retailer had other plans. Before teaming up with Microsoft in recent days, Walmart was part of a
Bicycles are perhaps one of the best all-around alternatives to car transport, especially in urban environments. And now a new study has shown that cyclists who switch to an e-bike can end up quadrupling their daily riding distance. The new study, which was published in the latest edition of the journal Transportation Research, studied two
This illustration depicts how the station would look once built. Arup The planning application for a U.K. rail station that will integrate a number of sustainable design features has been granted approval by authorities, as efforts to “green” public transport infrastructure continue. The building will be located in Solihull, near the city of Birmingham, and
The marking system which threatened to downgrade the exam results was not a “mutant algorithm” as claimed by the prime minister, but contained errors that were “predictable” and “could have been foreseen”, according to a leading statistician. Boris Johnson told a group of schoolchildren on Wednesday that “I’m afraid your grades were almost derailed by
4:20 PM ET If you think what happened in the NBA on Wednesday can’t happen in the NFL, you don’t know what year this is. Old rules are out the window in 2020. Long-held expectations are outdated. The Detroit Lions canceled practice Tuesday so they could stand outside of their team facility and talk about