Solar and wind forecasts are new wave of weather reporting:Mashable

Solar power was the fastest-growing form of electricity generation in the United States in 2014. As renewable energy continues to expand, demand is growing for a better way to predict just how much power from these intermittent sources will be available for the grid.

Google's self-driving cars crash 'surprisingly often,' but it's not their fault.Mashable

Google's self-driving cars have got into quite a few accidents, but they've been caused by human-driven cars crashing into them, not the other way around.
"Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road," head of Google's driverless car program Chris Urmson wrote in a blog post Thursday.

See also: Google's self-driving cars are coming to public roads in California this summer

He describes an incident in which a human-driven car (can you imagine: In a few years we may have to indicate that a car is human-driven more often than not) slammed into the back of Google's self-driving Lexus.
Google's car, explains Urmson, stopped (together with two human-driven cars in front) at a green light to avoid being stuck at the middle of an intersection due to heavy traffic ahead — just like a human would.
However, the human-driven car behind just kept going, hitting the Google car at 17 mph. The human in it did not hit the brakes at all, probably due to distraction.
These types of accidents started happening more often after Google's cars went from freeways to surface streets. "This is exactly where you’d expect a lot of minor, usually unreported collisions to happen," Urmson writes.
So far, Google's stats for self-driving cars are looking good. Since the beginning of the project in 2009, other drivers hit Google's self-driving cars 14 times. The number of self-driving cars causing a collision? Zero.
"We’ll take all this as a signal that we’re starting to compare favorably with human drivers," writes Urmson.

If you get this ‘phishy’ looking email from Adobe, don’t open it :businessinsider.com

Hackers are infecting computers with malware using bogus emails claiming to be Adobe security alerts. The emails exploit a recently uncovered vulnerability in the Flash software often used by web browsers to view video, and feature an "important Flash update" subject line.
The campaign was uncovered by Volexity founder Steven Adair and reportedly uses one of the vulnerabilities revealed in the June 6 Team Hacking leaks.

IBM announces functioning 7-nanometer chip breakthrough:mashable.com

The pace of software and startup innovation only seems to be accelerating, but tech industry stalwarts like IBM continue to work behind the scenes to keep things quietly moving forward.
IBM Research's latest breakthrough is a big one: the first 7-nanometer node test chips with functional transistors.

Targeting 1 billion people: Facebook to open its first African office.Mashabl.com

Photos: the $4.8m Ferrari Floyd Mayweather wants to buy

When you make $300million a year - you can buy any bladdy thing you like. TMZ reports below..

How do you upgrade from a $3.8 million Ferrari?? Easy ... you get a $4.8million super

How Instagram is killing retail as we know it

Once iconic American retailers are being challenged like never before.
Gap, which once ruled the mall, is closing one-quarter of its stores amid declining sales for 13 months in a row.
J. Crew just fired 10% of the workers at corporate headquarters as sales and profits continue to plunge. 
The teen-apparel market is also struggling as a whole, with big-name players like Abercrombie & Fitch and Aeropostale closing stores.
Wet Seal, a shopping mall staple, abruptly shut down nearly all of its stores. Sears, Macy's, and JCPenney have also shuttered hundreds of store locations in recent years.