In 2009 Google acquired On2 technologies that created a series of Video codecs. In 2010 Google
announced the launch of WebM using On2 proprietary codec called VP8 and
made it open source. At the latest I/O conference Google has announced
that it will be releasing VP9 shortly. Youtube has already been
experimenting with these codecs for some time now.
An 18 year old High school student, Eesha Khare, from California invents
a Super capacitor that can charge your phone in 20 seconds. Khare won
USD 50,000 at the Intel Science fair for inventing this device.