12 Female Characters Disney Will Never Make Movies About
Disney princesses tend to fit a certain mold. They are pretty and enigmatic, and they are good role models. After the release of "Frozen," however, some questioned if Princess Elsa and her sister,...
View ArticleNavigating the 'Fog of Data Ignorance'
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. "Part lies, part heart, part truth, part garbage" -- this quip from R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck back in the '80s says a lot about the Big Data...
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The 50 Best Quotes From 2014 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
With another festival almost over, Cannes Lions continues to capture the intersection of entertainment, business, culture and advertising. The festival has hosted an amazing range of speakers -- here...
View ArticleThe Triumph of the (Internet) Commons
Many social scientists believe that communities are bad at sharing in commons systems where access to a shared resource is free. Garret Hardin called this the tragedy of the commons (TOC) in a famous...
View ArticleHow Accurate Is Your Activity Monitor? Fitbit, Jawbone And Others Put To The...
Your trusty activity monitor says you burned 300 calories during your morning run, but can you really trust it? According to a study conducted by researchers at Iowa State University, activity monitors...
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Girl's Delightfully Old-Fashioned Letter Gets Her Dad A Week Off From Work At...
A Google employee is getting a week off work to spend with his daughter, thanks to an impassioned letter she wrote to his boss. “Dear google worker,” the letter reads. “Can you please make sure when...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald On Why Privacy Is Vital, Even If You 'Have Nothing To Hide'
LOS ANGELES -- Journalist Glenn Greenwald defended the value of digital privacy and slammed those who dismiss its importance during a stop on his national book tour Thursday. “We all need places where...
View ArticleThis Popular Video Game Is Becoming a College Varsity Sport -- With Hefty...
CHICAGO (AP) — Note to parents: All those hours your kids spend blazing a trail of destruction in video games may not be a complete waste of time, after all. A small private university in Chicago is...
View ArticleCan Pi Be Trademarked?
Background Intellectual property law is complex and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but, roughly speaking, creative works can be copyrighted, while inventions and processes can be patented....
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Computing a Cure for HIV: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists Understand...
An atomic model of the HIV-1 capsid, or shell. HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide. Today approximately...
View ArticleGoogle's Nest Reportedly To Buy Dropcam For $555 million
(Reuters) - Dropcam, the home-monitoring camera startup, will be bought by Google Inc's Nest Labs for about $555 million in cash, a technology news website reported on Friday. The deal was signed on...
View ArticleTina Fey & Amy Poehler Use Craigslist To Cast For 'The Nest'
As if we needed another reason to count down the days until "The Nest" arrives in theaters! The production team behind Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's forthcoming film -- in which they play estranged...
View ArticleGirlsAskGuys Closing Cross-Gender Gap
We often solicit the advice of strangers online. Platforms like Answers.com aggregate millions of questions and answers on a whole host of topics. There are niche services like Yelp for restaurant...
View ArticleGoogle Considering Building A Cable Across The Pacific Ocean: WSJ
Google Inc. is weighing an investment in a new, multimillion-dollar cable across the Pacific Ocean, people familiar with the matter said, a move that comes as big technology companies send an...
View ArticleDrone Captures Massive Yacht Fire As $24 Million Boat Is Engulfed In Flames...
You've probably never seen a fire quite like this. San Diego boat captain Kurt Roll was using a remote-controlled quadcopter drone to shoot aerial footage at a shipyard in Chula Vista, California on...
View ArticleOldest Pope Video Ever Made Shows Pope Francis Wasn't The First Tech-Savvy...
Pope Francis has been a real social media blessing for the Catholic Church with his informal demeanor and off-the-cuff remarks resounding across Facebook and Twitter. But he wasn't the first pontiff to...
View ArticleWhy Science Says You Can't Lose Those Last 5 Pounds
Never mind the "Freshman 15." It's the "Fifty 5" that is the real killer. Once you hit midlife, losing those final five pounds just becomes near-impossible for many people. It turns out, it may not be...
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How Messaging Apps Are Changing the Way Businesses Connect With Customers
"Both WhatsApp and Secret represent the ascendency of the phone book over the friend graph. It's back to the future." -- Tweet by David Sachs, Founder/CEO of Yammer The modern era in many ways has been...
View ArticleYahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too)
Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food’s offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road, or would they prefer a guide to cheese fries and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Stop Hacking Your Life and Invest in the Journey
Maybe stop trying so hard to find shortcuts to "hack" your life. The best things are hard. Invest in the journey. Just sayin'.— richroll (@richroll) December 23, 2013 A lark of a tweet I fired off last...
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