The Daily Populous

By tying search results to the use of Plus, Google was using that muscle to force people to promote its social network.

I asked the Google people if I understood correctly: If a publisher didn’t put a +1 button on the page, its search results would suffer?

I assume this is what happened because we had nothing to do with removing the article from the cache. »

According to research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , dog owners are motivated to walk their pets because it makes them happy —not for health or social reasons.

But that happiness depends on the owner believing that the dog is enjoying the walk, the researchers noted in their paper.

(Dog owners are generally more physically active than non-owners, the authors say, but some rarely walk their dogs at all .). »

Belle was in Washington, D.C., on Monday to receive an award for biting onto owner Kevin Weaver’s cell phone to call 911 after the diabetic man had a seizure and collapsed.

She had been taught to bite down on the number 9 on his cell phone contacting 911.

Belle was the first canine recipient to win the VITA Wireless Samaritan Award, given to someone who used a cell phone to save a life, prevent a crime or help in an emergency. »

LONDON — The chocolate giant Mars is promising to spend close to $1 billion over the next few years fighting climate change.

"We've been increasingly worried about overall progress on the big issues, whether that's climate change or solving poverty," Barry Parkin, Mars' chief sustainability officer, told Business Insider.

"There are obviously commitments the world is leaning into but, frankly, we don't think we're getting there fast enough collectively. »