It’s that time of year again! David Clarke Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation have kicked off the 2021 Call For Code. This year’s focus is on climate change. Developers participating in the $200K competition have three key areas to develop novel solutions (with a little help from IBM) for: Per IBM’sdeveloper blog: This year, Call for Code aims to tackle the imminent and existential threat to Planet Earth: climate change....

Everything you need to know about Airbnb’s 2020 IPO plans Reasons to IPO But there are lots of reasons to go public, includingpressure from employees(shares held by early employees will expire this year). But another big motivation is the fact that Airbnb has rebounded better than its competitors from coronavirus. Booking rates wereabove expectationsfrom June 2020 onwards and the Airbnb model could take advantage of changing host and tourist behavior during the pandemic....

China’s space program is making impressive progress. The country only launched itsfirst crewed flightin 2003, more than 40 years after the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarinbecame the first human in space. China’sfirst Mars missionwas in 2020, half a century after the US Mariner 9 probe flew past the red planet. But the rising Asian superpower is catching up fast: flying missions to theMoonandMars; launching heavy-lift rockets; building a newspace telescopeset to fly in 2024; and, most recently, putting thefirst pieceof the Tiangong space station (the name meansHeavenly Palace) into orbit....

Whether it’s that loosely connected “friend” who’s faded off into obscurity, or brands looking to make the biggest impact, Facebook’s EdgeRank holds all power of visibility. While we’ll never know the true mechanics behind the ultra-secret formula, there are a few key steps that can greatly improve your overall Facebook exposure. Before digging into how to ensure that your news is seen the most, we need to start at the source: EdgeRank....

If you don’t know about Internet Explorer 9 for PC by now, you must have spent the last few months on a tall mountain in Tibet meditating, so we are not going to recap the full version of Microsoft’s next browser in this post. What we are going to do is lay out for you what is coming in themobileversion of IE9, something that Windows Phone 7 will receive this year....