Spanish startupChicisimolaunched last year as a community for fashionistas to share photos of their favourite clothes, tagging them with data about the brands, items and colours being worn. Similar toFashiolista(our previous coveragehere), a community of fashion-obsessives has built up around the site, voting and commenting on each others’ looks. While there are obvious benefits for helping to push retail sales here, what’s really interesting is the data that can be extracted from the service....

“Under 13s should be onFacebook,” Mark Zuckerbergcommentedlast week. Unfortunately, the legislation around minors using Facebook is apparently too difficult to deal with. Legislation? Schmegislation! While the legal department sorts that out, what can Facebook do for the young networkers among us? While there are no plans for Facebook to change its policy right now,it is no secretthat there are many children on Facebook at this very moment. They are there illegally but they are there....

China has admitted for the first time that it had poured tens of millions into the formation of a 30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors called The Blue Army. The team is reportedly trained to improve the security of the country’s military forces and to protect thePeople’s Liberation Armyfrom outside assault on its networks. The Blue Army, believed to have already been in existence for two years, is currently under the Guangdong Military Command....

Despite the fact that American giants like GM, Ford, and Tesla have bet big on the production of electric vehicles, the US is still lagging behind in the EV market. This is confirmed in thelatest reportby the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Unsurprisingly, China is the largest electric vehicle producer and makes up nearly half (44%) of the global EV production through 2020, with 4.6 million units in manufacturing and sales....

China and UAE are headed to Mars — here’s what they hope to discover Tianwen-1 If all goes well, the orbiter Tianwen, which means“Questions to Heaven”and the yet unnamed rover will attempt to measure Mars’s climate and “ionosphere,” a layer of electrically charged particles surrounding the planet. This work might help to understandhow Mars is losing its atmosphere. But it will also support future crewed missions to Mars by exploring its surfaceand mappingits shape, geology, and internal structure....