Who Continues Your Life Online When You Die?
If you are reading this on the internet right now, you are also likely documenting your life through accounts like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. Your thoughts and pictures and recordings...
View ArticleWhen All Smartphones Became The Same
Let's face it, today's array of smartphone choices have little to do with variety. As the mobile phone platform evolves, we are seeing less and less "new" features, and more of rehashed or Gen 2...
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Google's New 'Inbox' App Actually Makes Email Fun Again
Google released a new email app on Wednesday that it hopes will make your mountains of email a bit more manageable -- and maybe even fun. The app, which Google calls Inbox, supposedly organizes and...
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26 Percent Of Young Women Report That They Have Been Stalked Online
If you look at mild forms of online harassment these days (like name-calling), you'll find that young men and women actually suffer at roughly similar rates. But don't for a second let that fool you...
View ArticleI Tried the Next Level in Wearable Tech
Wearable Tech is probably one of the hottest phrases out right now. Companies on both the fashion and tech side are racing to get into the game, each entrant hoping that it has the ticket to mass...
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Six Reasons to Share Your Mobile Location
As mobile phone usage becomes increasingly prolific, the number of location-based mobile applications has skyrocketed. The Pew Research Center reports that nearly half of adult smartphone owners use...
View ArticleCan Tinder Light A Fire In India?
BY ANKITA RAO, OZY The writer, Ankita Rao, is an Indian-American journalist currently based anywhere from the villages of Orissa to the streets of Mumbai. There are gods on Tinder. Not Adonis-like gym...
View ArticleThis 'Star Wars' Recut Lets You Watch The Prequel Trilogy In Under Three Hours
"Star Wars VII" isn't out until December of next year, but you might as well get started on your marathons now. Yet rather than watch the much-derided prequel trilogy, we've got a solution: "Star Wars...
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What Minecraft Is Teaching Your Kids About Money
BY CHRIS TAYLOR NEW YORK Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:13pm EDT (Reuters) - If your kids are chattering non-stop about things like emeralds, pickaxes and creepers, you may have a unique opportunity to turn a...
View ArticleUtah State University Defends Response To Vile Threat To Feminist Speaker
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Facing faculty concerns about guns on the campus of Utah State University, the school's president is responding to accusations that the institution acted irresponsibly after a...
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Printer Turns Photos Into 3-D Objects So Blind People Can Hold Onto Treasured...
Glance at an old photograph, and all of a sudden the memories come rushing back: The ski trip you took with your family as a child; the first time you rode a bike without training wheels; a beloved...
View ArticleFive Keys to Entrepreneurial Success
Forming your first startup is not a task for the faint at heart. You think you have every piece of information and every problem solved, but once you decide to make the jump into entrepreneurship and...
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Behold, An Old-School Cassette Player That Streams Spotify
Do you love the at-your-fingertips convenience of modern music consumption, but get nostalgic for the days of the cassette tape? One man is having it both ways, by retrofitting an old cassette player...
View ArticleThe Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics And Beheadings Out Of Your Facebook Feed
The campuses of the tech industry are famous for their lavish cafeterias, cushy shuttles, and on-site laundry services. But on a muggy February afternoon, some of these companies’ most important work...
View ArticleWith Risk Comes Reward--Always
Throughout my career, I've made a number of decisions that came with many risks. I carefully evaluated each opportunity and stand by every calculated risk I've taken. In the end, the payoff turns out...
View Article5 Reasons I Love Wearables
A recent report by PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) and their consumer industry series says that wearables are not embraced yet and are still considered a novelty. One-third of the folks who bought a...
View ArticleThis Is Why You Don't Tag National Parks With Your 'Art' And Post About It On...
Public service announcement: If you're thinking of dipping your toes into the wild word of graffiti art, do not turn the country's most treasured national parks into your experimental canvases. And if...
View ArticlePaul Allen Commits $100 Million To Fighting Ebola
SEATTLE, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen said on Thursday he would increase his total donations to organizations tackling Ebola to more than $100 million, making him one of the...
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Ebola.com Sells For More Than $200,000 -- Including 19,000 Shares Of Cannabis...
Two Las Vegas entrepreneurs attempting to sell the rights to Ebola.com succeeded in selling to the highest bidder -- literally. Chris Hood and Jon Schultz paid $13,500 for the rights to Ebola.com back...
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Chasing Shadows: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is Updated for 2014
To be a Gabriel Knight fan, growing up, felt like being in possession of a secret language. People might sometimes share the same favorite books, but games? In the '90s, to be a computer game fan was...
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