Well, Now Your Car Can Help You Order Pizza
Just what we've always wanted. Ford and Domino's have teamed up to create an app that makes it possible to order pizza using Ford's SYNC in-car infotainment system. The technology was unveiled at this...
View ArticleDoctors Invent Glue That Could Literally Mend Broken Hearts
By Jesse Emspak, Contributing writer Published: 01/08/2014 05:05 PM EST on LiveScience In one episode of the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stabbed in the chest...
View ArticleYep, 'Real Life Twitter' Is Just As Hilariously Depressing As You'd Imagine...
What would Twitter be like in real life? For starters, there'd be gold stickers everywhere, and followers would literally follow you. Naturally, wit would be rewarded, while spam and disagreeable...
View ArticleCES 2014 is Biggest Ever, Gary Shapiro Says
LAS VEGAS -- Fueled by a focus on media, new products, and technology of the future, this year's Consumer Electronics Show is the largest ever, says Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics...
View ArticleDisappearing Text App 'Confide' May Make It Easier For Spouses To Cheat
"Confide," a new phone app that launched Tuesday, is being billed as the "Snapchat for professionals" because messages sent through the app "self destruct" after they are read. Confide is the brain...
View Article4 Trends on Instagram Exposed
By: Sophia Orlander, University of Michigan I think we can all agree that Instagram is a fairly new technology whose importance has begun to rival even Facebook. While Facebook has played an integral...
View Article'LOL My Thesis' Blog Discovers The Basic Truths Of The World With Some Snark
If you have no idea what a research paper titled "Authority and the production of knowledge in archaeology" is about, then maybe this alternate take will be easier to understand: "Fake science sounds...
View Article'Mein Kampf' Was A 2013 eBook Bestseller
As of yesterday, Mein Kampf is the top seller in Amazon's Propaganda & Political psychology section, and 12th in the Politics & Current Events section of the iTunes e-book store. Print sales,...
View ArticleThese Cheese Movie Puns From '@Midnight' Are Cheesy In Every Way
The Comedy Central Twitter-based game show "@Midnight" came back this week, and on Wednesday's episode, comedians Thomas Lennon, Jenny Slate and Ike Barinholtz offered up some #CheesyMovies in honor of...
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Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
Galaxy Quest -- a wildly popular science-fiction parody made in 1999 spoofing the realm made famous by Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek TV series -- is considered a cult classic. Many fans pay homage by...
View ArticleXbox Pizza Hut App Sells Crazy Amount Of Pizza, Shocking No One
Some stereotypes are rooted in truth. Take for example the fact that gamers just love their pizza. Xbox 360 users bought $1 million worth of Pizza Hut pizzas in just the first four months of using the...
View Article26 Fitness Trackers Ranked From Worst To First
Fine. You didn't buy a smartwatch. You were never going to anyway. Meet the fitness tracker: a less expensive, more immediately useful tech product that might actually help get your lazy self in shape....
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Your Gmail Is About To Get Even Less Private
If you're a Gmail user, you probably also have a Google+ account. Until now, that likely meant nothing to you. However, with a new Gmail update, random people on Google+ will be able to send emails to...
View ArticleSNHU's Online Enrollment Is Soaring, Just Don't Compare It To A For-Profit...
There's a good chance you've seen commercials advertising Southern New Hampshire University, even if you don't live anywhere near the state. Although the name may sound like a public university, SNHU...
View ArticleWhy Machines Alone Cannot Solve the World's Translation Problem
Sixty years ago this week, scientists at Georgetown and IBM lauded their machine translation "brain," known as the 701 computer. The "brain" had successfully translated multiple sentences from Russian...
View ArticleWhat Arianna Huffington, Mika Brzezinski And Cindi Leive Learned From A Week...
Last month, Arianna Huffington, Cindi Leive and Mika Brzezinski made a vow to take a break from technology. For the sake of their health (and sanity), the three women ditched digital distractions with...
View ArticleGoogle Charters Private Ferry Service For Employees In Attempt To Seem Less...
Google's use of San Francisco public bus stops to shuttle employees to and from its Mountain View campus via private buses has come under fire. We can't wait to see how people react to their new...
View ArticleLeVar Burton Talks 'Star Trek,' Google Glass, and His Reading Rainbow App at...
LeVar Burton drops by the Samsung Smart Lounge to tell us about his Reading Rainbow app and how it's changed childrens' lives over the past 18 months. In addition, he talks to Andre Meadows and Ethan...
View ArticleTwitter Sees High Engagement in Video Tweets; Offers Real-Time Tips for Brands
LAS VEGAS -- Twitter is focusing on a number of initiatives with marketers to link brands more closely to the real-time opportunities in the daily tweet stream of users, says Melissa Barnes, head of...
View ArticleDoctor In Ron Johnson's Anti-Obamacare Story Refutes Claim
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has long attributed his inspiration for entering Washington politics to a mission of repealing the Affordable Care Act. A common thread in the tea party-backed...
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