How one designer helped Facebook take a step towards gender equality with one small design tweak Facebook designer Caitlin Winner has taken control of the social network’s icons to try to bring a little balance to the hugely popular service. Have you ever looked closely at the Friends icon on Facebook? Design manager Caitlin Winner certainly did. The Facebook designer …

Airline wifi is not a new idea. Carriers are already offering passengers internet access during their flight, but current systems can be painfully slow. As a result – online streaming services like BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Amazon Prime are restricted. According to Gogo – the most common in-flight wifi provider in the United States, the current technology will max out …

You’ve probably seen an Audio Video Interleave file before and not even known it – it’s commonly abbreviated as “AVI.” AVI files are multimedia files made by Microsoft as part of its “video for Windows” technology. Mostly, this format is used for encoding video that’s playable through Windows Media Player or supported third-party players. If you’re on a Windows machine, …

Telephone connections in India have crossed one-billion mark with mobile phones accounting for around 978 million, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “In a population of 1.25 billion, we have got 980 million mobile connections, around 978 to be precise. We add 5-7 million new connections every month. Our phone connectivity has crossed one billion,” he said while launching four telecom …

It’s axiomatic that advertising on the Internet is at best a necessary evil. What’s worse, just as the finance industry once vacuumed up the best and brightest from America’s elite colleges, this new source of filthy lucre has proved irresistible to people who might otherwise produce something useful. “Go West, young people, so you can figure out how to optimize …

With large tech companies like Google and Uber circling driverless cars, the conversation has mostly been one of “how soon can we do this?” and not “should we?” Of course, autonomous cars would be cool, but what are the advantages besides the obvious luxury of not needing an error-prone, human hand behind the wheel? Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National …

If you’re new to the whole torrent and P2P file sharing thing, you’re not alone. File sharing didn’t really take off until 1999. Even then, it remained a sort of niche activity. Since early P2P applications used a centralized server scheme to distribute files, most users still didn’t have the benefit of really understanding how P2P file sharing really worked. …

    Before we talk about terraforming another planet like Mars, we have to talk about Earth-and whether we should be spending our resources trying to save it, or moving on to another pale blue dot. It’s a grim debate that some scientists say it’s time to have. Terraform This We’ve been imagining how to create a new Earth as …

    Getting online is damn near impossible in Cuba-unless you’re very rich. That’s because the state-run run telecom company, Etecsa, has historically limited access and charges exorbitant fees for connectivity. Faced with growing international pressure, the company is finally going to add wifi hotspots and drop prices-but not by much. Internet in Cuba was expensive and rare throughout the …

        I’ve always liked the idea of having a projector, but never actually owned one. It always seemed like too much work: Sure, projecting movies like in theaters would be sweet, but then I’d have to set it up all the time. Isn’t there a better way? Actually, yes: AT&T now carries a projector that’s also a …