On a crisp autumn morning in London town, I awoke to an email from someone whom I hate but just can’t quit: Amazon. The company was writing to notify me of some important news: it will soon stop acceptingVisa credit cards for UK payments. Customers will still be able to use Visa’s debit cards, but the firm’s credit cards are getting dumped on January 19. Amazon blamed the move on Visa’s high processing fees, but conspiracy theorists suspect something bigger is afoot....

By definition, social media is meant to be just that, social. The argument to automate your Twitter feed or not can be hashed and rehashed over and over, but some facts remain the same; there are people behind the mechanisms. And as human beings, whether we like it or not, we’re not meant to work 24/7, and occasionally need to sleep. In today’s Twitterverse, there are a number of tools such asHootSuite,CoTweet, andTweetDeckthat can offer users an almost overwhelming array of options....

WithGoogle Music BetaandAmazon’s Cloud Playeravailable for US users only, there are a few free alternatives for audiophiles elsewhere to gain access to their music library from anywhere using a browser, an Android or an iOS device. Most of the options listed below won’t cost you a cent, although quite a few of them will require that you keep your computer on at all times if you want to access your tunes....

Althoughrecent reportshave pointed to a slightly less bleak outlook for digital music than may have been perceived, it’s still likely that the MP3s role as the primary source of the music industry’s digital music revenue could change in the next few years – hardly a shock when you consider what the adoption of this format and subsequent mass-piracy have done for the music business as a whole. With that in mind let’s take a look at alternative digital formats and services which could potentially save the music industry in the future....

4 founders explain the biggest hurdles to flattening the climate curve in 2021 Making sustainable transportation an option for the masses Transportation is responsible for 30% of the EU’s total CO2 emissions. And cars are the biggest polluters,accounting for 60.7%of CO2 coming from road transportation. With the explosion of new electric cars on the market, consumers are being courted with new transportation alternatives and government-backed incentives. But electric car registrations have still only increased incrementally across the EU from just2% in 2018 to 3....