The Most Important Trade Show Ever
Dr. Christian Göke, chief executive officer of the Messe Berlin, honors long-time IFA leader Wilhelm Kahle at this year's IFA Wilhelm Kahle was excited. It was August 13, 1961, and in less than two...
View Article5 Ways The Apple Watch Really Could Make You Healthier
The shortcomings of most personal fitness trackers are well-known: they're clunky, have limited functionality and seem to only attract people who are already active, as opposed to sedentary people who...
View ArticleRevolution in the Valley
I recently had the pleasure of attending a roundtable discussion on women's entrepreneurship hosted by the Women's Startup Lab in the heart of Silicon Valley. In attendance was the U.S. Representative...
View ArticleYou'll Want To Buy The iPhone 6 ... But Only Because It Has A Bigger Screen
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The CEO of Apple stood on a stage here Tuesday in front of a crowd of journalists, analysts, Apple employees and a handful of celebrities and made a bold proclamation. "Today, we...
View ArticleWhy Netflix Looks Different Today: It's Fighting For Net Neutrality
Wednesday is Internet Slowdown day, and some of your favorite websites may look a little different -- but they probably won't be any slower. Netflix, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, The Nation, Boing Boing and...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When Scientists Turn Solar Wind Data Into Sound
So that's what the sun sounds like. There may be no sound in deep space, but researchers are converting data from the sun into sound so that NASA scientists can listen to it as well as look at it. The...
View ArticleThe New iPhone May Finally Persuade Die-Hard Android Users To Quit
Tim Cook has big plans for Apple's new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the Apple CEO said the new iPhones Apple unveiled on Tuesday will prompt "the mother of all...
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing Self-Destructing Posts
Ever wanted to set a self-destruct timer on your Facebook posts? Well, just in case, you may soon be able to do just that. The social networking site is testing a new feature that will let you schedule...
View ArticleJustin Long Reveals Why Steve Jobs Cast Him In Those Apple Ads
It's not every day that a film actor celebrates his work in commercials, but Justin Long did just that, referring to his Apple ads from the mid-2000s as being "a real blessing" in a HuffPost Live...
View ArticleAre Drones Becoming Family-Friendly?
(Image Credit: Tom Bricker) Drones have been talked about a lot, for reasons ranging from military strikes, filming gatherings like burning man, or delivering packages. Notably, Google is investing in...
View ArticleBritney Spears Officially Has A Tinder Account
Swipe right, baby, one more time? In a chat with People magazine Tuesday, newly single pop star Britney Spears admitted she's not closed off to the idea of looking for love on Tinder. "Maybe!" the...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time, There Was A Very Simple Way To Limit Kids' Nintendo Playing
Nowadays, getting kids to turn off the video games and do their homework requires advice from experts and a strategic set of rules. But Reddit user perc10 reminded us that that task was once much...
View ArticleThe Cognitive Consequence of Self-Driving Cars
For the moment, we're still steering and braking, but we've gone far down the road to self-driving cars. A vast majority of the technology to enable at least some form of autonomous driving is either...
View ArticleHow Technology Helped Us Build Our Modern Family
If we could fall in love online, then just maybe, we could make a baby in a dish. That's what I told myself after three years of agonized infertility. Nothing could soothe the ache of so much failed...
View ArticleWill Apple's Payment System Take Out Paypal?
Will Apple's new payment system be able to kill PayPal?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and get insider knowledge....
View Article3 New iPhone 6 Features to Make Travel Even Better
With all the buzz surrounding Apple's debut of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, we realized that the new features mean great things for international travel--here's why: 1. A better camera for...
View ArticleWatching the iWatch and the Battle for the Smart Home
Big news yesterday as Apple shows the world how it's done. The results? A (free) U2 album on iTunes; a larger screen; paving the way for mobile payments; and, of course, the long-awaited iWatch. Jury's...
View ArticleFacebook Rejects Photo Of Hospitalized Baby, Calls It 'Too Graphic'
A week after Hudson Bond was born this summer, doctors diagnosed him with cardiomyopathy of an unknown origin and informed his parents that the infant would need a new heart, WTVD reports. Upon hearing...
View ArticleMan Creates Amazing Superhero Prosthetics With 3D Printer For Kids In Need
Prosthetic hands are great. Prosthetic Wolverine claws are even better -- especially when you're designing and building them for children in need, as Aaron Brown has done. Brown, a 3D printing...
View ArticleThis 17-Year-Old's Brilliant Invention May Lower Accidental Gun Deaths In...
Seventeen-year-old Kai Kloepfer's idea for a finger-print sensitive smart gun came to him in a dream. This week, the Colorado teen won a $50,000 grant from the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation with the...
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