Available in a range of sizes, the Trinity wind turbine can charge your phone while camping or provide electricity for your entire home.
When we think about energy efficiency on the go, solar-powered gadgets are typically the first to jump to mind. Solar-powered lamps, digital cameras and phone chargers are all planet-friendly and functional. But a wind turbine? A bit tougher to lug around.
The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust inquiry into Google’s Android practices, Bloomberg reports.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an antitrust inquiry into the way Google bundles apps on smartphones running its Android mobile operating system, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Google is currently facing similar scrutiny in the European Union.
A crack team of Villanova students are working to improve and encourage the Pontiff’s profile online.
On the evening of April 3, Melissa Connolly, a 21-year-old student from Villanova University, found herself atop the Palatine Hill outside the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, just a few steps away from the world’s biggest celebrity. Following the suggestions of the more experienced “paparazzi” around her, she positioned her camera. When the right moment arrived, with her target just 15 feet away—boom!—she got the shot she wanted. She quickly posted her picture of Pope Francis online—not on her personal Facebook page, but on the official Vatican Website, news.va.
“We want to make it clear that the apps you can use through Internet.org are free, basic services,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook’s Internet.org program, intended to supply free Internet to people in developing countries, is renaming its app “Free Basics”—and allowing developers greater flexibility in creating apps for the platform.
Learn more about the Schrödinger’s Cat of the public domain: We may never know what’s in the box.
The headlines on Tuesday and Wednesday blared, “Happy Birthday found to be in the public domain.” Unfortunately and confusingly, they were incorrect. A judge’s ruling in a suit filed two years against the ostensible current rights holders for the lyrics to that song, Warner-Chappell Music, didn’t decide that. Instead, the judge found that Warner-Chappell lacked valid rights to the lyrics, whether or not they remained under copyright protection, even as it collected fees to the tune of $2 million a year.
The film showcases the Clinton Global Initiative’s efforts in solar power, hearing aids, and girls’ education in Africa.
Two days ago, I found myself facing Bill Clinton, listening to the former U.S. president talk passionately about the work he and his foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, have been doing in Africa.
He’s probably going to want a beer.
Can you believe pizza rat, David Cameron‘s swine fever, and Martin Shkreli all happened in just one week? Future Tabs historians will surely point to September 21-25, 2015, as one of the greatest weeks of all time for tabs content. But were you paying attention? And more importantly, how bored are you this Friday afternoon? Take the quiz, and find out.
Marketers, rejoice! Twitter is toying with a feature that will let you embed polls in tweets.
Twitter is testing out a new feature: allowing users to embed polls into tweets. Twitter employees and those with verified accounts—Twitter users marked with those fancy blue checkmarks—are now able to embed simple two-question polls into their messages. It appears to be still under development, and is currently only available to select users.
Volkswagen’s emissions fraud has big repercussions for the auto industry.
Hot on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency discovering that Volkswagen secretly installed software that gave falsified emissions data from cars, the EPA says it’s ramping up its checks. In a public statement, the EPA told media and automobile companies it is expanding testing of cars as a result of the Volkswagen case.
Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping have agreed on common standards for cybertheft and economic espionage online.
The United States and China have moved a little bit closer to a joint understanding on cybersecurity, cyberwar, and the ongoing theft of proprietary trade secrets via hacking. In a meeting at the White House today, President Obama and Xi Jinping of China announced a “common understanding” to combat “cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property,” but left a lot of unspoken space about just what that common understanding actually is.
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