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The Guardian’s tests were simplistic, but the results are consistent with what we’ve heard plenty of times before: Facebook destroys your battery. Here’s how the Guardian broke it down: Using an iPhone 6S Plus for a week without the main Facebook app installed, I recorded the battery life at 10.30pm each day for a week comparing it to a daily average taken from a week with the app. I charged the phone overnight, taking it off the charger at 7.30am, and used it normally. I accessed Facebook for the same amount of time, and for the same purposes, using the social network’s excellent mobile site within Safari, as I had done using the app. I also left the Facebook Messenger app installed. On average I had 15% more battery left by 10.30pm each day. I had also saved space, because at the point I had deleted the Facebook app it had consumed around 500MB in total combining the 111MB of the app itself and its cache on the iPhone. While we’ve pretty much always known this, it’s nice to see some numbers put attached to it. Delete the Facebook app, your phone will be much happier for it.

Using the Facebook Mobile Site Instead of the App Can Save Around 15% of iOS Battery Life

RYNO Motors' single-wheeled electric scooter is self-balancing, has a turning radius of zero when stopped, and only takes up about as much space as a folding bicycle -- so it's conceivable that commuters could bring one onto a train. Plus, it looks like it fell out of a Japanese anime. However, it only has a maximum range of 20 miles between charges, a top speed that is limited to 12.5 mph (the actual top speed of 25 mph is limited to keep the RYNO scooter within the more relaxed legal boundaries of "personal mobility scooters"), and it looks like it fell out of a Japanese anime -- yes, for some people, that last point is as much a con as it is a pro. With an expected release date of January 2013 and an MSRP of $4,500, the RYNO scooter is, in my opinion, a compelling last-mile option for commuters. But is RYNO's scooter cooler than a Segway? Would you want to be seen riding one?

Don’t call Lily Camera a drone. With its dome body and four rotors, it certainly looks the part, but Lily Camera CEO Antonie Balaresque insists that it’s a flying camera. Which the 2.5-pound device certainly is. Unlike traditional drones, which are designed for flying, Lily Camera is focused on its subject. When it ships later this year, it will feature a 1080p, 60 FPS camera and another 720p, 120 FPS camera, both of which can be trained on you. The flyer will use its built-in GPS to stay fixed on a little Lily tracking device worn on your wrist or in your pocket. It will also, according to Balaresque, learn your face. The final Lily will have a computer vision system that will recognize your face and then work to always keep you in the frame. “You throw this in the air, go about your business and at the end, you’ll have a high-quality video,” said the camera's cofounder Henry Bradlow. Instead of a big radio controller or even tablet-based app to control flight, Lily Camera will fly itself, following and capture the best moments. (Think of it as a flying selfie photographer of sorts.) Balaresque noted that the pocket GPS will tell Lily Camera when you might be jumping or falling, for example; a quad of buttons makes the device either fly closer to or further away from you, or lets it circle to your left or right — while always keeping you in frame. It could be right at home on the shelves of Best Buy, alongside other camera equipment. “Fixed point cameras are limited by skills of the photographer,” Balaresque said. "A flying camera takes it to another level — much better footage.” Lily Camera is still months from being a finished product available for consumer purchase. The device that Mashable saw a few weeks ago was 3D printed with limited communication and vision-tracking capabilities. We launched it into the sky on a windy afternoon in Manhattan, and the device did hold its own, not getting blow astray. Balaresque had to register his face through an iPhone app, since Lily Camera can’t do it on its own just yet; however, at that point, it locked in on him and turned to face its cameras in his direction. The final version of the Lily Cam will be waterproof and even throw-proof; throw it into a lake and let it take off from the water, or hoist it into the air and let it stabilize itself. (That's the result of an array of sensors, including an accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and camera that faces the ground.)

Where you lead, the Lily Camera drone will follow

Why You Should Never Ask If You Got the Job Right After an Interview. . . . It’s good to ask a few questions at a job interview and show your interest, but there is one question you should always avoid. At the end of an interview, your interviewer may ask you if you have any questions for them. Feel free to ask away, but Michael Kerr, business speaker and author of The Humor Advantage, suggests you avoid this particular question at all costs: “Did I get the job?” Now is simply not the time to ask this question. Yes, it’s good to demonstrate you are enthusiastic, but there is a line that can make you appear desperate, and asking this question definitely crosses that line... Almost nobody is in a position to make a firm offer until they’ve finished interviewing everyone and have followed up on references, and asking this question reveals a lack of empathy for the interviewers’ challenges and a lack of respect and understanding for the entire interview process. You should also avoid asking questions like “How did I do?” or “Do you have any hesitations about me?” or “Could you imagine me working here?” These types of questions put the interviewer on the spot and can easily be seen as rude. What Kerr suggests you can, and should, ask is “What’s your timeline for making a decision, and when can I expect to hear back from you?” This shows your interest without being needy or off putting.

Swipe to Shut Down a Windows Touchscreen PC with This Shortcut . . . Have a Windows touchscreen laptop or tablet and want to control it more with taps and swipes? Here’s a “slide to shutdown” shortcut for you. MakeUseOf shares the shortcut hidden in Windows. To use it, create a desktop shortcut: Right-click on the desktop and choose New > Shortcut Paste the following in the shortcut location: %windir%\System32\SlideToShutDown.exe Name it whatever you want and save the shortcut. You can drag it to the taskbar for quick access. Tap the shortcut then slide down on your screen to shut off the computer. Is this quicker than using the keyboard? Not really. And it saves you only one tap if you tap Windows then Power then Shut down. But there’s something gratifying about swiping your computer off. (I wish there was one for putting it to sleep.)

Google Will Now Warn You About Sites With Fake "Download" Buttons. . . . Finding the right download button on a website is the least fun version of hide and seek ever invented. Now, Google’s taking action to warn users when sites engage in this kind of deceptive behavior. As Google explains on its Online Security Blog, sites with any kind of ads that deceptively try to mimic actual site functionality will now be counted as “social engineering.” This includes fake download buttons, warnings that software you don’t have is “out of date”, and fake notifications to update things like Flash player. When a site uses these tricks, Google will display a big red warning before a user visits the site. Hopefully this will discourage shadier sites from using underhanded tactics to trick users into clicking on ads, or at least prevent users from getting duped.