China solar energy: Key Takeaways
China solar energy is central to this story, and this analysis explains what matters most right now.
China's Solar Initiative in Cuba: A Strategic Energy ShiftChina's...
Lomustine is a cancer drug that treats brain tumors, lung cancer, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has been around for nearly 40 years, but it is becoming more expensive after the drug has gone up in price by 1400%.
The drug was previously called CeeNU and was sold from Bristol-Myers Squibb...
Accusations that Google paid their female employees less than men and given them fewer promotions have been dismissed by a California state judge on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Superior Court judge Mary Miss said that the lawsuit, which represented all female Google employees in California, was far too vague,...
Nearly, 1 in 5 NBA players has heart scans that appear abnormal, according to a new study.
Approximately 20% of today’s basketball stars have abnormal heart scans, according to a new detailed assessment of the NBA’s heart health. Basketball players are 30 times more likely than any other to suffer...
MoviePass has been lowering their prices to build up their business, and now theater chain Cinemark is firing back with their subscription service called Cinemark Movie Club. The company will use a different business model than an all-you-can-watch style. It is more of a rewards program that comes with...
YouTube is reportedly testing a new feature called “Reels”, which will be similar to the Stories feature you currently see on Snapchat and Instagram.
TechCrunch reports Reels will be given their own tab, which will be separate from the creator’s main list of video’s. YouTube’s reasoning behind this new feature...
Earlier this month, a Twitter employee temporarily deactivated the Twitter account belonging to President Donald Trump. After initial reports stating that it was an error, Twitter said a contractor had taken action on his last day. Now, after a massive search by journalists, the former employee revealed himself to...
The United States is currently facing Christmas Tree shortage. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, NCTA, America is facing a tree shortage, which may cause the price for a Christmas tree to rise for consumers.
The cause of the shortage could be traced back to the Great Recession that...
The Next Web reports Instagram is testing new features including the ability to search for GIFs to add to your Instagram stories. The Next Web reveals that there are a number of new features Instagram appears to be testing including a close friends list to share with only a...
Scientists studied the bones of nearly 100 women who lived in farming communities in Central Europe from 5300 BCE to around 850 AD and found that prehistoric women had stronger arms than modern day women. That is likely because farming women from the past had to work hard and...
Amazon reveals new tools for companies to invest in artificial intelligence. Today, Amazon’s business subsidiary, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new line of products with the mission to sell artificial intelligence products. Among them is a $250 AI-powered camera called DeepLens, a new platform for developing and revealing...
Yesterday, the cost of a single Bitcoin reached $10,000. Today, it was reported NASDAQ, the second largest stock exchange on planet Earth, plans to launch futures contracts for Bitcoin starting 2018. This will allow investors to invest and essentially bet on the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency and...
Bitcoin is worth over $10,000. The cryptocurrency surged past $10,000 on Tuesday evening as it climbs closer to $11,000, according to CoinDesk. Bitcoin had spiked 933 percent since the start of 2017, when it traded at $968.23, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Despite concerns with Bitcoin’s association with criminal...
Facebook has been increasingly copying Snapchat’s features and profiting off the company in the process. Whether it’s stories or the recently announced messaging streaks, Facebook has taken features from Snapchat and repurposed them time and time again. But, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is not taking this sitting down.
In an...
Snapchat introduced a new redesign of their app intended to promote more sharing among friends while pushing professionally produced content into a separate news feed. The redesigned app also includes a new dynamic friends page that consists of both chat messages and Snapchat stories and pushes items from your...
For a brief point in time, Pokémon Go was one of the most popular apps in the country. Despite bringing millions in revenue for the Niantic company, it also brought injuries and death, well at least according to a new paper.
This report titled Death By Pokemon Go, shows the...
There is increasing evidence suggesting that using laptops during lectures actually decreases learning, which can result in lower grades.
According to The New York Times, researchers at Princeton University and the University of California asked a group of students to take notes at a lecture using pen and paper while...
Facebook Messenger is adding a streak feature, a feature that is already on Snapchat.
When Snap, the Snapchat parent company, announced their plans to go public the company stated their most significant competitor was Facebook. Snapchat explained in their IPO filing that their most significant risk factors include competition. “We face significant...
Twitter is currently testing a new feature called Bookmarks, which will allow their users to save tweets for later. Twitter’s product designer Tina Koyama tweeted a preview of what the feature looks like, with a bookmarks option listed on the user’s navigation menu.
“We went through all the designed flows...
Following a Verge story revealing examples of predatory comments on videos of minors, YouTube announced on Wednesday that they will turn off comments entirely on videos where the video-streaming detects predatory behavior.
Recently, The Verge reported on the number of predatory comments on videos of minors. The Verge reports, "videos of young children doing activities like...
Left is the latest company to receive a permit to test self-driving cars on public roads in California. This news comes after the company wanted to build their own self-driving software only four months ago. Left appeared at the bottom of the California’s DMV’s list of permit holders, a...
