Viral Internet Challenge is Spurring People Around the World to Pick Up Tons of Trash and Then Snap Photos
As far as internet trends go, picking up trash is certainly a much more noble cause than eating laundry detergent or ghost peppers.
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Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones By Harvesting Wifi From the Air
Dead cell phone batteries may be a thing of the past thanks to this new 2D material that was recently engineered by MIT researchers.
Heartwarming Data Reveals the Most Popular Google Searches Were About How We Can Be Good
According to Google Trends, the most popular internet searches involved people wanting to be better and learn about good things.
Clicks Against Breast Cancer, and Hunger, and Deforestation, and…
I went to donate a mammogram with a simple click of my mouse and found -- on the same page -- not only the Hunger Site, but the Rainforest Site, The Child Health Site, the Literacy Site, and the Animal Rescue Site!
Pledges on Kickstarter Topped $320 Million In 2012; Site Names Year's Top Projects
Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site that pairs indie-minded inventors, filmmakers and entrepreneurs with online investors, fully funded more than 18,000 projects in 2012. The website's year-end analysis shows that more than 2.2 million people pledged a total of nearly $320 million. 17 projects raised more than $1 million each
A Plan to Turn Every Lightbulb Into an Ultra-fast Alternative to Wi-Fi
Current wireless networks have a problem: The more popular they become, the slower they are. Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have just become the latest to demonstrate a technology that transmits data as light instead of radio waves, which gets around the congestion issue and could be ten times faster than traditional Wi-Fi.
Giving on Freecycle Network Goes Global With Nearly 9 Million Members
The Freecycle Network at Freecycle.org is a grassroots gifting network that — thanks to the sour economy and a growing commitment to the environment — has transformed into a global movement of millions who are offering and taking all manner of stuff.
Google Unveils New Virtual Tours of Top Art Galleries in the World
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world's most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extremely high-resolution gigapixel technology.
Facebook Founder Donates $20 Million Toward Public School Internet
Mark Zuckerberg donates millions to speed up Internet connections in America's public schools.
Web Users Fight World Hunger with a Click
Every day you can make a contribution to easing world hunger just by clicking on the donate free food button on the internet home page of The Hunger Site. Since its inception, millions of pounds of food have been donated.
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