New global program aims to get 1,000 cities to take climate action by 2030 Five principles The first cohort of cities will work with an alliance of partners on implementing measures to: The Global Center on Adaptation and WRI will lead on building a 10-year program and growing the 1000 Cities Act Now network. The work will include developing indicators to track progress and adding city resilience data to the Global Covenant of Mayors’ database....

Google todaystartedrolling out its new sign-in page to all Google Apps customers. Your business may not see it immediately, however, as the company expects the process to take four weeks starting today. Here is what organizations with Google Apps need to know: The updated design is meant to be consistent across all the Google Apps services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. Google hopes the change will improve security by getting users accustomed to the same login process across all its services, though as we’ve pointed out before, some enterprise companies probably won’t be too happy that their branding is being stripped....

TNW Quick Hit: In December of 2010 we brought you the discovery that the registry of Windows Phone 7included hintsof both visual voicemail and VoIP, two features that the phone line quite desperately needs. Now with Microsoft’sacquisition of Skype, VoIP inclusion is literally a done deal, it’s now merely a waiting game. However visual voicemail remains something that is far from being a set feature for the phone line, although few doubt that it will come eventually....

New images of M87’s supermassive black hole reveal magnetized ring around it This may be a polarizing subject… Supermassive black holes are found near the center of all galaxies, and the highly-energetic magnetic fields they produce can fuelmassive jets, sending material racing from the galactic core. Understanding how the jets are influenced by the supermassive black holes as they form and develop remained elusive. Studying polarization of light at the edge of the black hole provided a wealth of new data to astronomers....

As part of India’sInformation Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Café) Rules, 2011, cyber café owners are now required to make an effort to stop users from accessing pornographic or obscene websites. According toThe Times of India, cyber cafés were notified on April 11th of a ruling requiring them to register with a government agency to ensure their adherence to the new guidelines. In addition to monitoring porn, the new rules make it mandatory for Internet café owners to install a filtering software and keep a log of all websites accessed by customers for at least one year....