Please welcome Jon Barrett, with this week’s tech news including solar homes, the iPhone honors, Facebook snoops, a way to get your photos to an online gallery without connecting your camera or an SD card to a wire, and cybersex strategies.
For the first time in the three-year history of the Solar Decathlon, a European team has won the collegiate competition to build and operate the best solar home. Students from Germany’s Technishe Universitat Darmstadt beat 19 other teams to take top honors. Metropolismag.com reports: “Stretching four blocks and flanking both sides of the [National Mall in Washington, D.C.], each home in the Solar Village had to power itself using only the sun over the two-week trial period, and also had to generate enough energy to fuel an electric car.” See pictures of the entry homes here.