Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has announced its dive into the European market and it sounds like a big one… but will it stick the landing? The company will bring four battery swap stations to the Oslo region by September, and then will expand to other Norwegian locations, starting in 2022. .@NIOGlobalconfirms the battery swap station will come to Europe, with 4 starting in the Oslo region in 2021. Then from 2022 to other Norwegian locationspic....

Minicars have been trending in Japan for a handful of reasons. They’re more affordable and they offer an efficient solution to thelimited space of Japan’s urban areas and to the lack of public transport in rural provinces. Now, Nissan has teamed up with Mitsubishi to launch in 2022 a mini EV, especially made for the Japanese auto market. What is a mini vehicle? The so-called “minivehicle” is under 3.4 meterslong, 1....

Tech companies like Apple and Google want to measure your health in multiple ways possible. But they’re running out of physical attributes to gauge such as heart rate, steps taken in a day, and blood oxygen. So the focus might shift to mental health, and that’s a slippery slope. According to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working on a set of features todetect depression and cognitive declineusing sensors on your iPhone....

Opening up your shiny new Apple iDevice has always been a joy. Unfortunately that joy is dampened quite a lot by immediately having to connect the device to your computer with the supplied cable in order to activate it using iTunes. Having to connect a brand new iPhone or iPad to a computer is one of the most jarring and archaic bits of the carefully crafted Apple experience left. It must drive Steve Jobs nuts....

As we reported last week,email is forty years oldthis month, and despite plenty of challenges from rival forms of messaging, it’s alive, well and still growing. It seems that many of us suffer email overload, so wouldn’t it be good to take a day off? That’s what the organiser of a new ‘No Email Day‘ hopes to persuade us to do. No Email Day is a campaign that is encouraging people to stop using email completely for twenty-four hours on 11 November 2011 and do something more productive with the time they save instead....