Family Asked To Deboard Plane After Dad Sends Tweet Criticizing Gate Agent
A Minnesota dad isn't exactly feeling the "LUV" after he and his two kids were removed from a Southwest Airlines flight last weekend following confusion over the airlines' boarding process for...
View ArticleObamacare Website Getting So Much Traffic It's Surprising Experts
This story was co-published with NPR's "Shots" blog.For months, journalists and politicians fixated on the number of people signing up for health insurance through the federal exchange created as part...
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UK Supermarket To Use Food Waste To Power Itself
Where does all the leftover food go when the grocery store closes at the end of the day? Maybe it's repurposed somehow or thrown out, but what if it could help a supermarket become energy independent?...
View ArticleNo Security: Hope X Is (Not So) Decadent and Depraved -- Day 2
This is Day 2 of my journal shooting my history on computer hacking at HOPE X Conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania July 18-20, 2014. You can read day 1 here. Day 2 10:00am- First thing this morning I...
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11 Tricks to Get Engineers to Sort of Respect You
As we all know, software engineers are the smartest, sweetest, most pretentious bastards in corporate America. I should know -- I'm engaged to one of them. But there's no need to sacrifice your...
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'Game Of Thrones' Emoji Are Coming
If you thought "Seinfeld" emoji were as good as it gets, you know nothing, Internet. Elite Daily has developed new "Game of Thrones" emoji, and with everything from memorable characters to awesome...
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Is 'Seinfeld' Coming To Netflix?
Have you been scrolling through your Netflix queue recently and noticed a disturbing amount of missing "Seinfeld" episodes. Yeah, us too. You'd think one of the most popular on-demand streaming...
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This iPhone App Lets You Turn Any Photo Into An Emoji
It was only a matter of time: Now you can be an emoji, thanks to a new app. Imoji, posted to the App Store on Thursday, allows iOS users to turn the pictures they take -- or save -- into emojis for...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson and 48 Other Emojis We Wish We Had
Words don't always do a conversation justice -- especially when that convo is text based. You're there texting your bestie and an overwhelming sense of glee sweeps over you. What to do? Say it with an...
View ArticleBritish Man Builds Gigantic Farting Butt, Lets 'Er Rip At France
Who cut the fromage? Colin Furze, a British plumber and prank aficionado, headed down to a cliff in Dover, England, on Thursday to see if he could produce a machine-made fart loud enough to be heard in...
View ArticleThe Power of Second Chances
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I got a first-hand look at how our criminal justice system could be used to transform lives -- not just punish -- while serving as a prosecutor...
View ArticleTake A Break From The Heat With The Funniest Someecards Of The Week
This week had some very high highs and some very low lows. Let's start with the high: Weird Al finally hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with his album "Mandatory Fun" and we couldn't be happier! The low?...
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Learning From Failure in the Digital Health Business
You know the old saying, "You learn more from your failures than your success." But ouch, those failures can smart. At a recent Digital Health Summer Summit in San Francisco, three brave former CEOs...
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Dear God, J.Crew Is Selling Hashtag Shorts
Because life is absurd and nothing makes sense anymore, clothing store J.Crew has decided to start selling a pair of shorts in "hashtag print." What is "hashtag print"? It's exactly what you think it...
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Yahoo Harassment Case: Why No One Is Saying 'Rape'
The case of a high-profile female Yahoo executive allegedly sexually harassing her female subordinate has shocked Silicon Valley. The lawsuit filed by engineer Nan Shi claims that her boss, Maria...
View ArticleWikipedia Bans Changes From Anonymous House Users After 'Disruptive Editing'
Wikipedia has instituted a 10-day ban on edits from anonymous users from a single House IP address because of "persistent disruptive editing." The ban, which began Thursday, is in response to edits...
View ArticleObama To Sign Bill Making It Legal To Unlock Your Cell Phone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday to give mobile-phone users the right to 'unlock' their devices and use them on competitors' wireless networks,...
View ArticleSharing is Caring. But Not in the Sharing Economy.
The sharing economy is taking the world by storm -- creating multi-billion dollar companies overnight and inspiring millennial entrepreneurs to squeeze cash out of anything and everything they have...
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Let's Stop Persecuting 'Auschwitz Selfie Girl' for Smiling at a Camera
This selfie of a girl in front of Auschwitz has prompted unfair social media outrage. I grew up Jewish so I'm naturally very sensitive to the horrors that took place at Auschwitz during the Holocaust....
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70 Percent Of Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Sold Online: Study
In 2014, buying a child for sex online can be just as easy as selling your old couch or posting an updated resume. Astonishing statistics dug up by Thorn, an agency that studies technology's role in...
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