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US carriers want to bring “screen zero” lock screen ads to smartphones

Enlarge / Glance’s ad copy promises “authentic engagement” with its lock screen billboard. (credit: Glance) Android smartphones can be a rough market, and to squeeze as much profit out of a phone as possible, carriers often sell every square inch of a phone to the highest bidder. Packed-in, often un-installable crapware apps fill your app…

How many lives have electric cars saved from climate change?

Enlarge / A row of Tesla EVs charging at one of the company’s Supercharger fast charging locations. (credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) These days Tesla gets a lot of flak, but sometimes it does great things. In 2008, it launched the Tesla Roadster—the first-ever serial production lithium-ion battery car. Unlike previous…