DHL Express is teaming up with all-electric aircraft manufacturer Eviation to build the world’s first electric air cargo network. On Tuesday, the courier giantannouncedthe order of twelve “Alice” aircraft from the Seattle-based company to be delivered by 2024. Aliceis an all-electric nine-seat aircraft, designed to transport passengers and freight alike. It can be flown by a single pilot and carry up to 1,200kg of payload. It needs a mere 30-minute charge per flight hour, and has a maximum range of up to 815 kilometers....

RememberDiaspora? If you believed the hype, it was supposed to be our saviour from the privacy flaws of Facebook – a distributed, decentralized social network. However, since it launched with plenty of press coverageand fundinglast year, it’s disappeared into the shadows and is widely regarded as an idea that has its time but has lost momentum. Today the team has sent an email (posted below) to its users asking for a $25 donate to keep it alive....

RememberDiaspora? If you believed the hype, it was supposed to be our saviour from the privacy flaws of Facebook – a distributed, decentralized social network. However, since it launched with plenty of press coverageand fundinglast year, it’s disappeared into the shadows and is widely regarded as an idea that has its time but has lost momentum. Not so, say the people behind the project in an email sent to users today....

Apple just barely announces the existence of iMessage and the world screeches to a halt. Blackberry stockstake a diveand thefuture of SMSin the US is called into question. And I’m personally left feeling very confused. Sure there’s no denying Apple’s clout, or the popularity of its products worldwide. But if flame wars on the net are anything to go by, Android users, despite any quirks the OS might have, are as loyal to their OS as Apple users are to iOS....

This morning atTechCrunch Disrupt, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, Arianna Huffington, in a “Fireside Chat” made an interesting and possibly illegal statement concerning the stock of AOL. AOL, you’ll recall,announcedon February 7, 2011, it would acquireThe Huffington Postfor $315 million and make Huffington president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. This gives Huffington control over not onlyThe Huffington Post, but existing AOL properties such as Engadget, AOL Music, Patch Media and TechCrunch, whichAOL purchased in September....