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By Rob Lovitt,    Quick, can you guess which of the world’s airports tops the charts for the most “check ins” on social media? We’ll give you three hints: @alecbaldwin (since deactivated) @aplusk (as in the ex-Mr. Demi Moore) More people prone to self-promotion per capita than perhaps any other city on the planet. If you answered Los Angeles International Airport, give yourself a badge. Facebook announced on Tuesday that more people check in via Facebook or a third-party location app while at LAX than at any other airport in the world. “We are honored and excited for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) being named the ‘Most Social Airport in the World’ by Facebook,” airport officials told msnbc.com via e-mail. Rounding out the world's top 10 social airports are Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Sydney (Australia), Phoenix, Las Vegas and Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok, Thailand). “Travel is inherently a social thing,” said...

By Bianca Ffolkes An in-flight device that can detect ash clouds is being tested by low-fare airline easyJet and is scheduled to arrive next summer if trials are successful. The system, known as AVOID (Airborne Volcanic Object Imaging Detector), makes it possible for a pilot to see an ash cloud ahead at altitudes of 5,000 to 50,000ft Developed by Dr Fred Prata of the Norwegian Institute For Air Research and funded by easyJet, AVOID is a small orange machine that checks the position and measure the density of ash clouds using an infra-red camera and satellite data. Dr Prata told the Guardian: "It has two cameras that have been tuned to see the signature of silicates, which are the components that make up volcanic ash. "They're able to see silicates up to 100km – maybe more – away if you're flying at 33,000ft, and that information can be relayed straight back to the pilot in the cockpit and he's able to see volcanic ash in the atmosphere ahead of ...