Microsoft, along with a slew of other major tech companies who opposed Trump's immigration ban, donated lots of cash and free services to the president on inauguration day, according to new POLITICO report. After donating a reported $US250,000 ($327,446) in cash, and the same amount in technical services, to the Trump's inauguration parties on December 28, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella condemned the ban in an Q&A with employees. He said, "There is no place for bias or bigotry in any society, in any context. That's where we start from. We will always as a company stand for that diversity and inclusion."

Like many in the tech industry, Mark Gainey, CEO of run-mapping app Strava, used his position to condemn President Trump's immigrant ban this week. Unlike anyone else, however, Gainey did so in his own peculiar native tongue: The language of routes.

In April, a half dozen polar scientists are meeting at a US Air National Guard base in upstate New York to board an LC-130 cargo plane bound for Greenland. Once there, the researchers will spend a month traversing remote glacial terrain on snow mobiles, taking measurements at field stations to help NASA determine how quickly our planet's vast northern ice sheet is melting.

Stranger Things pulled the rug from under Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Westworld at the Screen Actors Guild awards yesterday to win the award for best ensemble cast. And while there's a lot to love about the cast's reactions to the win -- especially Winona Ryder's -- it's David Harbour's powerful acceptance speech that's worth watching.