Taxi Industry's Protest Against Ridesharing Apps Backfires
San Francisco taxi drivers are done playing nice. For two hours on Monday night at San Francisco International Airport, cabbies with the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance clogged lanes, blocked...
View Article3 Good Reasons to Silence Your Cell Phone Now
The other day, I walked into the dorm lounge to find six or seven of my friends sitting together in absolute silence, eyes downcast, each and every one of them completely absorbed in their cell phone....
View ArticleEmpower, Inspire, and Uplift: Changing the Face of Beauty and Confidence
When you were a newborn infant, all that mattered to you was to be in the safety of your mother's protective arms. When you were five, your life revolved around dolls, tree houses, and stuffed animals....
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200 Starbucks Locations Now Have Wireless Charging Pads
Wireless charging is now an option at about 200 Starbucks locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and will eventually be available at stores across the country. Pads capable of charging smartphones and...
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Shameless New Dad Uses Craigslist To Try To Hook Up With His Wife's Delivery...
Your goals as a dad in the delivery room should be simple: provide emotional support through the labor pains, try not to faint, and cheer your lady on as you prepare to welcome your little human into...
View ArticleClose the Broadband Gap
In the 21st century, it's hard to imagine a corporate world where only one-third of businesses could access high-speed Internet and the rest were relegated to dial-up speeds. Yet that's essentially the...
View ArticleThis Indian Start-up Could Disrupt Health Care
Frustrated at the lack of interest by the medical establishment in reducing the costs of diagnostic testing, and seeing almost no chance of getting the necessary research grants, Kanav Kahol returned...
View ArticleI'm Proof That Online Friendships Are Just As Important As Real Life Ones
We are blessed to live in a world where we can connect with literally anyone. We can connect at any time, at any place, with anybody and with any mode. This is extraordinary, especially because people...
View ArticleMattel Apologizes For Depicting Barbie As An Incompetent Computer Engineer
Barbie is sorry. In a posting on Mattel's Barbie Facebook page Wednesday, the iconic doll apologized for a 2010 children's book that portrays her failed attempt at becoming a computer engineer. In...
View ArticleThere Are Serious Deals On Home Goods At Kohl's This Black Friday
The store: Kohl's The time: Kohl's is one of the stores starting its Black Friday sales early, both in stores and online. Sales begin at 6 p.m. nationwide in Kohl's stores on Thanksgiving Day. Online,...
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Sex In Newest 'Grand Theft Auto' More Graphic Than Ever
Grand Theft Auto has taken its depiction of women to a new extreme. Players can now have first-person sex with prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto V, allowing for a much more graphic depiction of what was...
View ArticleThe One Thing We Should Consider Before Using Tinder
The smartphone dating app Tinder has been catching fire faster than Katniss Everdeen can wield a bow and arrow. Currently, Tinder boasts over 50 million global active users, who check their accounts 11...
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Live Sex Shows Force Steam-Cleaning Of University Of Newcastle Library
College is expensive, but one young coed's plan to earn money for school has gotten her in hot water and forced a steam-cleaning of the library. Officials at the University of Newcastle near Sydney,...
View ArticleNSA Debated Phone Tracking Before Edward Snowden Leaks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency had been secretly collecting American telephone records, some NSA executives...
View ArticleAl Franken Confronts Uber After 'Troubling' Reports
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is calling on ridesharing service Uber to clarify its privacy policy, questioning the company's business practices in a letter to CEO Travis Kalanick. The letter comes after...
View ArticleHow To Stay Serene (And Smart) On Black Friday
Whether you wholeheartedly embrace the deals or consider yourself more of a passive shopper, Black Friday madness is just around the corner. However, it isn't the same shopping day it was a few years...
View Article25 Of The Most Incredible Breakfasts To Make The Day After Thanksgiving
The party is over. The fat lady has sung her turkey-tuned song. The refrigerator is overflowing with Tupperware galore, not to mention extra ingredients you bought in case of emergencies. It's the...
View ArticleAmazon's Video Service Is Growing, But Netflix Is Still Killing It
Amazon's huge investments in streaming programming seem to be paying off. Amazon Prime Instant Video, the Netflix-like streaming video service that comes as part of Amazon's $99 per year Prime loyalty...
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These Clichés Are The Reason All News Article Look The Same
Earlier this year, The Washington Post ran a list of phrases that journalists and other writers overuse, quipping, "This isn't your father's list of clichés." "At first glance" and "upon deeper...
View ArticleDemystifying Law: How LegalZoom Uses Technology to Make Law Affordable
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," Benjamin Franklin once wrote. As a small business owner, independent filmmaker and single mother, I would add legal fees to...
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