Google Maps is best known for finding places, but the service is also proving adept at finding criminals. Gioacchino Gammino learned this the hard way. The mafioso had been on the run for 20 years when he got a surprise visit from the police. “How did you manage to find me? I haven’t even called my family for 10 years,” Gamminoreportedlytold the cops. According to an anti-mafia investigator, they found him on Google Maps....

Indian cops have sent a notice to Twitter India’s managing director,Manish Maheshwari, to appear before them. Just east of the capital, police based in the relatively small city of Ghaziabad, have asked him to show up, and record a statement regarding an ongoing case of a viral video. Earlier this week, the city’s police forcefiled a caseagainst Twitter, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, and online media entity The Wire, for allegedly provoking communal tension through tweets....

The problem that I have seen with cloud services thus far is that I end up having to log in to 5 or 6 different sites in order to gain access to the services that I want. Then, if I want to move files between them, I have to download them locally, then upload them to another. Not only does this take time, it can kill my mobile data plan on my Chromebook pretty quickly....

Instagram, the photo taking and sharing app that has taken the iOS device having world by storm (and soon for Android we’re told) opened up its API some time ago, andwe wrote about many new appstaking advantage of that. One of them isCopygram, a very lightweight web app that lets you do two things very well. After you log-in with your Instagram credentials, you are given the option to “develop” your photos, which lets you download a zip file of all of your Instagram photos to your computer, just enter in the email address you’d like to have them sent to....

Coral sex: How lab reproduction could restore wild reefs Coral sex in the lab Coral reefs are so enormous they’re visible from space. But watching them spawn is surprisingly tricky. They only do it on a handful of nights each year and the exact date and time is determined by environmental factors that scientists are still working to fully understand. Climate change is causing reefs with known spawning patterns to shift their timing too,making these events less frequent and predictable....