The Daily Populous

The Energy Department said that the cost per watt was assessed in terms of total installed system costs for developers.

Despite the plummeting costs for utility-scale solar, costs for commercial and residential solar panels have not fallen quite as quickly—just 15 percent and 6 percent, respectively.

In 2011, the DOE started the SunShot Initiative with the stated purpose of reducing solar panel prices to certain levels by 2020. »

It was, they noted, not the first time that Mr. Shkreli had made inflammatory posts on social media.

Just before his conviction, prosecutors wrote, Mr. Shkreli had made a sexual threat toward a female journalist on Twitter; since then, they wrote, “Shkreli has engaged in an escalating pattern of threats and harassment.”.

After the hearing, two deputy United States marshals led Mr. Shkreli to a holding cell adjoining the courtroom. »

The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations.

Cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs said that an online employee tool used in the country could be accessed by typing "admin" as both a login and password.

"We immediately acted to remediate the situation, which affected a limited amount of information strictly related to Equifax employees. »

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered Martin Shkreli to be jailed while he awaits sentencing for securities fraud, citing a Facebook post in which the former drug company executive offered a $5,000 reward for a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair.

The post prompted an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, which is charged with protecting the former Democratic presidential candidate.

Shkreli first rose to prominence in 2015 when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he raised the price of anti-infection drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent. »