How do you clean your ears? If you said “cotton swabs” then you would be joining the ranks of many of us who continue to poke and prod the earwax out of our ear canals, despite having heard that swabs may actually do more harm than good. In fact,one studyfound that 68% of the respondents do exactly that. It’s time tochange this habit. Earwax, or as it is known scientifically,cerumen, is a naturally forming substance that helps protect and lubricate our ears, keeping out harmful things like dirt and dust....

Cleeng, a WordPress plugin that lets anyone from casual bloggers to professional publishers charge for whole articles, parts of articles or indeed any element of a page, is now out of private beta and taking sign-ups from the public. As wereportedlast month, Cleeng lets its users offer a “halfway-house” between a free website and a paywalled one. Publishers can easily opt to make parts of their websites “premium” while the rest of the site remains freely accessible....

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen numerous online publishers try and fail to implement ways to monetize their content. The choices were always pretty clear — You either put up a paywall and angered your customers, or you let everything go for free. Without a middle ground, publishers have been left starving and customers have been running to other sources. Cleengis, simply, a better way to monetize content on your site....

Most of America’s107,000 gas stationscan fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000 public EV charging stations, withabout 106,000 outlets. Each outlet can charge only one vehicle at a time, and evenfast-charging outletstake an hour to provide 180-240 miles’ worth of charge; most take much longer. The existing network isacceptable for many purposes....

In case you didn’t know, CityVille is the most popular Facebook application, with over 20 million daily users. FarmVille, the game that was once the paragon of time-wasting has a mere 13.6 million daily users, making it the third most popular app on Facebook. What then is the second most popular application? Windows Live Messenger, boasting a stunning 14.4 million daily users. If you had, like so many of us have in technology, moved completely to Skype and Gchat, forgetting just how massive Messenger is, let this serve as a reminder....