Facebook says it’s open to advertising u-turn for the EU elections, enabling cross-border campaigns – TechCrunch

Facebook’s VP of global affairs and communications, Nick Clegg, today said the social network — likely in response to pressure from European officials — is “open” to changing its rules on election advertising for European Union elections that will take place on May 23, by allowing cross-border campaigning rather than requiring those running ads in…

Driverless cars could be the answer to reducing light pollution

Within the next several decades, most of the industrialized world’s cars and trucks could be replaced by autonomous vehicles. That transformation may provide an opportunity to fix some of what’s now broken with modern transportation—including, perhaps, light pollution. That might seem an odd intersection of environmental concerns and driverless technologies. Ethical concerns about the vehicles…

Quantum breakthrough could lead to ‘super-powered’ hard disk drives

While the world’s focused on the latest Avenger’s flick, an international team of scientists have potentially unlocked the super powers of another familiar Marvel character: Magneto. Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory, Oakland University in Michigan, and Fudan University in China have discovered a quantum-level exploit that has the potential to give engineers greater control…