Volkswagen surpasses Toyota in 2016 sales

Toyota has relinquished the title of the world’s biggest automaker, reporting Monday that it sold 10.175 million vehicles worldwide in 2016, fewer than Volkswagen’s 10.31 million. Toyota has relinquished the title of the world’s biggest automaker, reporting Monday that it sold 10.175 million vehicles worldwide in 2016, fewer than Volkswagen’s 10.31 million.

Bridging Detroit’s massive digital divide

Heath, who lives just west of Hamtramck in Detroit’s North End neighborhood, often receives visits from a young neighbor who lacks Internet access so he can do his homework for school. “He’ll come down to my house and say, ‘Miss Norma, can I use your Internet? I have a science project I need to do and we don’t have the computer or the Internet,'” Heath says.