A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Google has removed an April Fool's Gmail button, after reports of people getting into trouble at work
"It looks like we pranked ourselves this year," Google said in a statement. "Due to a bug, the MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We're truly sorry." A mic drop is a popular meme in which someone makes a conclusive statement or rebuttal before dropping a microphone and walking off. Google was not immediately able to clarify details of the bug. Google added that users who were still able to see the feature could switch it off by reloading or restarting Gmail. "Thanks to MicDrop I just lost my job," claimed one user on Google's product forums.
"I am a writer and had a deadline to meet. I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. I inadvertently sent the email using the MicDrop send button." Another complained that they had been having interviews for a job with a company for three months and then accidentally sent a mic drop email to the HR department.
And a third said that they had sent an "important email to 30 recipients". Users had been informed of the button and what it would do via a message in Gmail when it first appeared. Furthermore, users with the "undo send" capability enabled would have been able to retract a message within a certain time period after sending it.Google originally announced the creation of Gmail on 1 April 2004 and, at the time, there was speculation as to whether the email service was an April Fool's stunt.The button was not enabled on the Gmail accounts of enterprise business customers.
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