Ten Out of This World Space Apps
By David Tiegen Space nerds know that high-quality astronomy apps are few and far between. For a long time, the only popular astronomy app was Google's SkyMap, but now Google Play and the App Store...
View ArticleShred, White and Blue: Freedom From Identity Theft?
It's finally here. You've been saving up for months. This is your day. You are the Master of the Data Security Universe, Ms. Never-Gonna-Happen-To-Me, Captain Try-Personally-Identifying-This. And...
View ArticleThe Energy Dilemma
A slow buzz signals the start of a new day as my alarm clock hits its mark at 6:30am. I slap the snooze button and start to stretch, reaching for the TV remote to catch the morning news. Seconds later...
View ArticleNew Lesbian App Dattch Isn't Just Grindr For Ladies, CEO Says
The CEO of Dattch, a newly-launched app targeted exclusively at women seeking women, says she doesn't think her product should be compared to Grindr. CEO Robyn Exton spoke with HuffPost Live's Josh...
View ArticleThe Truth About Tinder And Women Is Even Worse Than You Think
Was Whitney Wolfe a co-founder of Tinder? I think the answer exposes a different, quieter, but no less punishing form of the sexism that is pervasive in the startup world.
View ArticleApple's Equipment Ecosystem
Apple Can Sell More Products to Its Own Customers 43% of Apple Buyers Own Only One Device Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released analysis of the results from its research on Apple,...
View ArticleWorkers Prepare To Clean Site Of 1976 'Atomic Man' Accident
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Workers are preparing to enter one of the most dangerous rooms on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation — the site of a 1976 blast that exposed a technician to a massive dose of...
View ArticlePhone Financing Changes Buyer Behavior
Buyers Finance Better Models of Less Expensive Brands Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released results of its research on mobile phone financing plans. This analysis features findings...
View ArticleFacebook's Experiment Reveals a Much Deeper Problem With the Internet Today
When a technology company behaves badly, you hear one defense brought up repeatedly: they could have done so much worse. When Google decided that they would use your face in their advertisements, you...
View ArticleFacebook Experiments Had Few Limits
Thousands of Facebook Inc. users received an unsettling message two years ago: They were being locked out of the social network because Facebook believed they were robots or using fake names. To get...
View ArticleExplosive New Tinder Details Revealed
A Bloomberg Businessweek writer who wrote about Tinder's early success is now lashing out against the makers of the popular dating app with an explosive new piece. The reporter, Nick Summers, concluded...
View ArticleAmazon Fire Phone: Caveat Emptor
You can now pre-order Amazon's new Fire Phone at the online retailer's website. Except I wouldn't. Not yet, anyway. Why? Fire Phone is missing one of the most important modern smartphone capabilities:...
View ArticleGoogle Just Made It Even Harder To Search For Porn
Google just got a little less NSFW. This week, Google banned advertisements that, in the words of the company, "promote graphic depictions of sexual acts." These includes not only "hardcore...
View ArticleFacebook Study May Have Violated Principles Of Academic Research, Journal Says
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The scientific journal that published a study by Facebook and two U.S. universities examining people's online mood swings regrets how the social experiment was handled. The...
View ArticleGoogle Restores Links To Some News Articles After Outcry
(Reuters) - Google Inc GOOGL.O GOOG.O on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having...
View ArticleGraduates, Beware of Identity Theft
Worried about finding a job after you graduate from college? Worried about paying off your debts? It gets uglier: New college grads need to think about their identities being stolen. One-third of...
View ArticleWATCH: Stories You Won't Believe From Some Of The World's Dirtiest Jobs
Are people who do physically demanding, not-afraid-to-get-dirty jobs like farming, mining and sheep castration (yes, you read that right) the happiest people on earth? So says Mike Rowe, host of the...
View ArticleA Guide to High Quality Social Media Sharing: What, When and How to Share
The currency of social media is the share. We all want to be the go-to person with the latest news, the most intriguing viral content, or the best hidden gems followers wouldn't have found otherwise....
View ArticleWhat Is Wardriving?
Wireless networks have certainly brought a lot of convenience to our lives, allowing us to work and surf from almost anywhere—home, cafes, airports and hotels around the globe. But unfortunately,...
View ArticlePotentially Habitable Alien World May Not Even Be A Real Planet
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study says a planet outside our solar system thought to be in the so-called Goldilocks zone is not even a real planet, but a cosmic masquerade. Four years ago, scientists...
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