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What it's like to hail an air taxi from Blade
The future of urban air mobility is a lot closer than you think and could start changing the way cities work in just a few years.
The big picture: As roads get ever more congested, transportation is moving to the skies. Electric flying taxis will zip over choked highways, ferrying passengers among a network of "vertiports" around the city. From there, passengers can walk or use another mode of transportation to get to their final destination.
What to expect from Biden's trip to Europe
President Biden arrived in Europefor his first foreign trip bearing what could be a game-changing pledge: 500 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to be shared with low- and middle-income countries over the next year.
The state of play: The remaining G7 members — Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and this year’s hosts, the U.K. — are set to pledge at least another 500 million to bring the total to 1 billion by mid-2021, per a draft communique seen by Bloomberg.
The war for attention: How to be a skillful communicator
Never have humans talked, tweeted or texted more words — and found it more difficult to be heard.
Why it matters: In this era of nonstop noise, every person must be a skillful communicator. Yet most struggle at it.
Tech and entertainment titans like Amazon and Google team up to scale climate solutions
A group of eight large companies, including tech and entertainment heavy hitters such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Disney and Netflix, are joining environmental groups and the U.N. to devise ways to scale funding for climate solutions, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The collective will be called the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions (BASCS), and will serve as a knowledge-sharing network that has the potential to accelerate companies' emissions reduction efforts.