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The White House, through its official Twitter account, has announced that it now has an official Tumblr Page. It also promises that there will be GIFs, though doesn’t elaborate what kind of GIFs will be uploaded to this page. Perhaps we will get to see President Obama fist bump White House staffers? We’ve also been promised amazing pictures of Bo, who is the first family’s dog, “wonky charts,” some iconic quotes from the President and details of interesting things going on inside the White House that can be publicly shared.

This administration is in no way a stranger to social media. They’ve heavily relied on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ in the past, and still do, to engage with people. The President also did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit late last year. The White House will also be taking submissions via the Tumblr submission tool, advice and questions to engage with readers. It goes without saying that some of us are actually excited about GIFs coming out of the White House, one can only wonder what they’ll show us!

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HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang announced at a forum that she will be donating 100,000 tablets to young women in Southeast Asia. The tablets will be used to further the education of women throughout the region in hopes of promoting gender equality there. Wang made the announcement at a World Bank open forum held in Washington. The forum was called, “Equal Futures Partnership: From Promise to Progress”.

The tablet will be the HTC Flyer, and it will be distributed throughout schools in Southeast Asia. This isn’t Wang’s first time distributing the HTC Flyer tablets to schools. Back in August of 2012, Wang donated 6,000 HTC Flyers to 60 schools in Taipei in an effort to increase education in those schools through the power of technology. Wang encourages more women to use and familiarize themselves with technology as it will help them achieve equality.

The HTC Flyer is a bit old. It was released back in May 2011. It has a 7-inch 600 x 1024 resolution display, single-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, 16/32GB of internal storage, 1GB of RAM, 5MP rear-facing camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 4,000 mAH battery and it runs on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread using HTC’s Sense UI. It also features HTC Scribe, which is decent for jotting down notes. You can check out our review of the tablet here.

HTC’s Cher Wang has been named one of the most influential women in the tech industry. She was number 56 on Forbes’s list of powerful women back in August, and is also a co-founder of HTC. She is known for her various acts of philanthropy, including her donation of $28.1 million in 2011 to found the Guizhou Forerunner College that proides free to low-cost education to students from low-income families. She is a huge advocate for women’s rights, and will continue to provide technology and support to help women in various countries achieve a better education.

[via China Post]

HTC Chairwoman will donate tablets to young women in Southeast Asia is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google Glass has only been shipped out to a few select people, dubbed Explorers, and they are keeping the public informed about the various details of this gadget through a variety of mediums. Jay Freeman, a.k.a Saurik, is regarded as a legend in iOS jailbreak arena. He also happens to be a Google Glass Explorer, and what did he do with his unit? He performed a jailbreak.

The Google Glass jailbreak gives Jay Freeman root access, which means he has unadulterated access to the underlying Android operating system that Glass is running on. He said that the entire process took him a couple of hours, he just had to make it think that it was an emulation and not the actual hardware. He was then given root access, which is the norm with emulations, as they’re used for testing. This Google Glass jailbreak was performed using an Android 4.0 exploit that was initially discovered by B1nary, who is another hacker. Stephen Lau, the Google X project engineer, confirmed that the company has intentionally left Explorer edition units unlocked so that Explorers can hack it and can do crazy stuff with it. So it can’t be said for sure whether consumer Google Glass units, which won’t be available until 2014, will be able to be jailbroken.

[Image via Forbes]

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Back in January Boeing’s latest airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, was grounded because of fire related incidents caused by its battery system. Last week the flight ban was finally lifted after nearly three months of the global fleet being grounded. On 27th April, Saturday that is, Ethiopian Airlines became the first airline to begin the first 787 Dreamliner commercial flight with paying passengers on board. This was the first commercial flight since January, 2013.

The flight took off from Addis Ababa and landed safely in Nairobi. The 787 Dreamliner airplane used on this flight is one of the four that Ethiopian Airlines has in its fleet. Boeing has previously said that it will take five days per plane to install the modified battery system, and Ethiopian Airlines CEO confirmed that the remaining three aircraft were being retrofitted with the new battery system. In the U.S., United Airlines has scheduled the started of commercial 787 flights on 31st of May. ANA, a Japanese airlines, has the largest Dreamliner flight in the world right now and it will be conducting a test flight first before it schedules commercial flights on this aircraft.

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