How Wearable Tech Will Change the Way We Pay
By Owen Andrew It wasn't that long ago that wearable tech was still the stuff of fantasy or, more aptly, science fiction. Many doubted the market for such devices would ever gain mainstream...
View Article4 Technologies That Let Stalkers Have Virtual Sex With You
Thanks to 21st-century technological innovations, jilted exes now have a whole new array of methods to creepily cling to their past relationships. In all probability, someone you used to date is...
View ArticleAn Instagram Post Gave This Teen His Eyesight Back
When North Carolina teen Jon Dase was diagnosed with keratoconus, a rare eyesight condition that can cause blindness, he feared he'd have to give up his lifelong dreams of serving in the Air Force....
View ArticleHow One Musician Helped A Teen With Hearing Impairment Enjoy Her First Live...
Dutch teenager Vera van Dijk was born with a severe hearing impairment that made it impossible to understand her mother's voice or listen to pop music. But thanks to one savvy musician, the 19-year-old...
View Article'Adorable-izing Hate' Is The Best Way To Deal With Spiteful Internet Comments
What to do when someone writes terrible things about you on the Internet? Turn their comments into cute pieces of embroidery, obviously. Marie Brian, also known as the Cotton Floozy, creates and sells...
View Article5 Ways to Scale Your Marketing Content
Let's face it: most of the content on the web today is really bad. There's click-bait content that doesn't provide any useful insights, pop-up content that makes you want to throw your laptop across,...
View ArticleWoman Trapped For 18 Hours After Car Wreck Rescued Thanks To 'Find My iPhone'...
After spending 18 hours trapped in her car at the bottom of a 500-foot deep ravine, a California woman was rescued by officials Tuesday morning -- thanks to an ingenious police officer and an app on...
View ArticleRevenge Porn Terrorism
The threat of revenge porn has become the weapon of choice to terrorize women. The images are intended to humiliate, to destroy a woman's reputation, to impact her livelihood, to limit what she can...
View ArticleNetflix Shares Collapse Because Of Slowing Subscriber Growth
(Reuters) - Netflix Inc reported quarterly net subscriber additions below its forecast due to lower subscriber growth in the United States, sending the video-streaming company's shares down as much as...
View ArticleHow the Social Media Disconnect Will Affect Business Schools
The ubiquity of social media reveals an interesting irony: Though we are more connected than ever before, loneliness is on the rise and more people report they have no one to talk to, according to a...
View ArticleThe Threats Against Anita Sarkeesian Expose The Darkest Aspects Of Online...
I don't know how Anita Sarkeesian gets through the day. I really don't. The violent threats sent to the Utah organizers of one of Sarkeesian's recent speaking engagements are just the latest iteration...
View ArticleDear Facebook, Please Don't Tell Women to Lean In to Egg Freezing
The workforces of Facebook and Apple are 69 percent and 70 percent male, and the companies have been getting a lot of flack for those figures. In their latest bid to attract and retain more women, the...
View ArticleEvidence of Abundance #14: Worldwide Internet Adoption
In last week's evidence of abundance, I shared three graphs illustrating the plummeting prices of computers, bandwidth and digital storage. Over the next few weeks, I'll show what the world's...
View ArticleWhen Facebook Stalking Goes Wrong: A Halloween Tale
If you've ever stalked an ex on Facebook, then you know it's imperative not to accidentally click Like on something. Committing this unspeakable act could bring your entire world crumbling down around...
View ArticleApple Unveils 2 New iPads And You Can Get Them In GOLD
For the first time ever, Apple will be selling gold iPads. Apple revealed the new color during a Thursday event at the company's Cupertino campus to unveil a new lineup of iPads. Both the updated...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon Shows FalPals Love With 'Ew!' Supercut Even Sara's Stepdad Gary...
You can tell Sara's stepdad Gary he can give up now because there's nothing that could make this "ew." To show his FalPals some love, Jimmy Fallon aired a supercut of his fans lip syncing to the "Ew!"...
View ArticleWhat Will Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Future Help Desk?
We're already seeing the start of some incredible technological advancements that will shape an exciting future; a future that will play host to artificially intelligent beings that are capable of...
View ArticleHere's What's Cool About Apple's New iMac And Yosemite OS
It may be easy to forget sometimes, but Apple doesn't just make iPhones. It also makes computers, and it unveiled some new ones at an event in Cupertino, Calif., on Thursday. Here's what's new: iMac...
View ArticleFBI Director Calls On Congress To 'Fix' Phone Encryption By Apple, Google
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director James Comey called Thursday for "a regulatory or legislative fix" for technology companies' expanding use of encryption to protect user privacy, arguing that without such a...
View ArticleThe Most Important Technology You've Never Heard Of
No matter where you go -- there you are. More importantly, so is your cellular service. Ramble across the country, and your phone automatically connects you to whatever cellular network is available....
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