Autor: Renata Nunes Rodrigues Gama

There are many interesting experiments underway for funding journalism online, but Beacon Reader is one I pay attention to because it takes a collective approach — those who want to support a specific writer can sign up and then get access to the all of the rest of the work that has been funded through the site as well, and their financial contribution is shared among all of the writers. Now the platform is launching a new feature: supporters can back a specific topic as well, with the first one organized around the theme of climate change.

Co-founder Dan Fletcher, a former managing editor at Facebook, says that Beacon Reader has collected 13 individual writing projects that have to do with climate change, and supporters can contribute to all of them as a group by signing up and agreeing to pay $30. That gets the subscriber access to all…

Even if advocates for net neutrality win the battle at the FCC over “no discrimination” rules, they could still lose the war if ISPs subvert the spirit of those rules by applying chokepoints at deeper layers of the internet. For practical purposes, this would mean that any internet traffic would reach your house at the same speed — but that some types of that traffic, especially from video-heavy websites like Netflix, would arrive in a degraded condition.

This, anyway, is the fear of Level 3(s lvlt), a content-delivery network, and one of the companies raising the alarm over ISPs that demand “tolls” behind the scenes to guarantee certain types of internet traffic get passed through to the end customer.

On Monday, Level 3 proposed in a blog post that the FCC adopt interconnection rules that would require ISPs to accept traffic without requiring a fee beyond what they charge to their customers:

If Internet content is delivered locally – in the ISP’s…

Look at your basic wireless charging pad and what do you see? Typically, it’s an uninspiring slab of plastic with a magnetic coil hidden inside; not something I’d call “fashion forward.” The team behind Swich aims to change that perception with a Kickstarter project for a wireless charger that’s actually nice to look at.

Swich, which uses the Qi charging standard, serves dual purposes for iPhones(s aapl), Androids(s goog) and Windows Phone(s msft) handsets. The top and bottom of Swich are made from ceramic while the middle section is produced from American Walnut hardwood. It’s a striking, yet practical design.

The product name of Swich aptly describes how your phone can be used on it since the top section rotates 90-degrees. That means you can use your phone in either portrait or landscape model while Swich charges the battery.

While there are some handsets that natively support the Qi wireless charging…