China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has been growing at a very rapid pace. The company already brings in billions of dollars in annual revenues and now, Alibaba has cited plans of tripling its revenues by 2016, thereby overtaking Walmart and becoming the world’s largest retail firm.
Patrick McConlogue of Medium created a lot of headlines a while ago when he decided to give coding lessons to a homeless man. McConlogue decided to give Leo one-hour coding lessons for eight weeks. At the end of these lessons, Leo is doing so well that he is about launch his very first mobile app.
Ötzi, the Iceman, was found back in 1991, buried in the snow under the Alps and frozen there for a very long time. Scientists have estimated that he lived nearly 5300 years ago and suffered from a very unique genetic mutation. Now, 19 living persons carrying the very same mutation have been identified by the scientists.
This year, a number of contenders were the nominees for the Nobel Prize for Peace. Among these contenders was the Pakistani education activist, Malala Yousafzai, who was considered by many as a likely winner. However, the Prize was awarded to OPCW, a chemical weapons watchdog.
Nuclear fusion research has been going around in a number of labs around the globe. Scientists hope that one day, nuclear fusion will be a key source of energy for us. Now, National Ignition Facility (NIF) in US has been able to achieve a breakthrough by creating more energy from a nuclear fusion reaction than was absorbed by the fuel used.
Facebook has a huge population, going well beyond the mark of 1 billion. It is hard to visualize this number, let alone try to imagine how many people it denotes. However, an ambitious project called ‘The Faces of Facebook’ has now endeavored to do this by presenting the display pictures of all Facebook users in one, huge grid.
Earlier we have seen the search giant Google being fined $10 millions dollars for violating Safari privacy settings and $190,000 over Street View service. And now it seems like due to a French agency, Google has found itself once again in the hot seat over its data practices!
Last year in July, FBI was able to gain control of the servers of Freedom Hosting. Once the agency had access, it was able to gather data on the hosting company, over suspicions that it was helping in child pornography. Yesterday, FBI has publicly admitted for the first time that it did indeed control Freedom Hosting’s servers.