This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets.Subscribe to it here. There are plenty of times in life that we need to slow down, sit back, andappreciate. And, considering the speed the tech industry moves at, I think this applies even more to our world. Friends, please join me. I’d like us to imagine ourselves as swine on a sunny day and fling our bodies into the mud pit of power transference — because it’s time to wallow in the magnificence of fast charging....

Social fashion shopping serviceFashiolistahas been growing fast since its launch at 2010’s The Next Web conference. Now the Dutch startup has announced $500,000 funding fromAtomico, the investment firm founded by Skype founder Niklas Zennström. Fashiolista allows users to share their favourite fashion finds from retailers around the Web via a browser bookmarklet. The result is a social network based around taste, with users able to follow each others’ favourite new garments and accessories....

Apreliminary reportreleased on Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) continues the mystery over what actually happened to cause therecent fatal Tesla car crash in Texas. According to the agency, video footage from the car owner’s home shows the owner entering the Model S’ driver’s door, and his companion the passenger side door. But whether the driver remained behind the wheel during the tragic ride or not… still is unknown....

Fang Binxing, the principal of Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, more commonly known as “the father of the Great Firewall,” was giving a talk on Internet security at Wuhan University earlier today and was allegedly pelted with eggs and a shoe. According toTweetsfrom a man claiming responsibility for the attack, the eggs seem to have missed, but theshoe struck its target. With his talk interrupted and the classroom in chaos, Mr....

We’ve heard about the infamousGreat Firewall of Chinathat blocks some of the most popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The person behind it, dubbed the father of the Great Firewall,Fang Binxing, admits that he has a lot of haters but he says, and i quote, “taking one for the country.” In an interview fromGlobal Times, Fang Bingxing’s admits that his project brought down on him an intense barrage of online criticism....