Today,ASOSbecame the world’s first fully integrated Facebook Store in Europe. ASOS, a retail site based in the UK worked withUsablenet‘s platform to extend the same e-commerce experience onASOS’s website to their Facebook Page. On their site you can view items, “like” them, share items and comments on certain items on your Facebook profile, see which items your friends have also liked within the store and complete a purchase without ever leaving theASOS Facebook page....

Aspiring to be a full time entrepreneur? Then you should probably consider these five growth tools Learn design There are no more powerful digital creation apps than Adobe’s vaunted Creative Cloud Suite — and this collection shows you how to use them all like a pro. Overeight coursespacked with more than 60 hours of instruction, you’ll get guided lessons in using eight of Adobe CC’s most valuable tools to create virtually anything in the digital space....

Living in our bubbles, glued to our MacBook Airs from our offices in New York, London and San Francisco, we often forget that not everyone in the world has such access to the Internet. In fact, globally only 2 billion have access to the Internet, meanwhile 4.8 billion people have cell phones. It’s a fact that entrepreneur David Reich, the Founder and CEO ofAssured Laborknows well. I first met Reich at New York City’s Dogpatch Labs just after he returned from a trip to India....

Asteroid dust helps solve the mystery of dinosaur extinction A case closed? The study looked at rock samples collected in the crater, which is now underwater. They found a layer of terrestrial mud mixed with “space dust” containing the element iridium, which can be found in high concentrations in meteorites but is rare in the Earth’s crust. This layer was four times thicker in the impact crater than in the surrounding area....

Everybody deserves to have internet access. It’s as crucial to our ability to thrive in modern society as running water and electricity. Getting that access to rural and/or impoverished areas is one of the great technology challenges of our time. Unfortunately, the people who’ve stepped up the most are those hoping to profit from humanity’s problems at any cost. To that end, companies such as SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb, and StarNet/GW have decided it’s in their financial best interest to capitalize on the problem by littering the Earth’s orbit with tens of thousands of satellites meant to provide internet services to those who, otherwise, might not have access....