Uber Raises Fares During Sydney Hostage Crisis, Then Offers Free Rides
Uber prices jumped in the Sydney Central Business District on Monday as people tried to flee the scene of a hostage crisis, leading to heavy criticism of the company on social media. The company's...
View ArticleScientists Develop A Soft, 'Smart' Skin That Could Revolutionize Prosthetics
South Korean researchers have developed new “smart” prosthetic skin that's as soft and elastic as human skin, and can detect temperature, humidity and even tactile sensation through built-in sensors....
View ArticleSony 'R' Us
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures' computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking. That goes for everything from the vulnerability of everyone's...
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China's Challenge: Only Free Expression Can Make a One-Party System Work
China has two key challenges in the years ahead. The first is to build a new, global rules-based system with the other major world power, the United States, that supplants the post-WWII order. The...
View ArticleWordplay Run Amok: Et Tu, TRUSTe?
"Friends", "Likes", "Cookies", and now "Trust", what is happening to words we loved so much? How could one industry wreak such distortion on these heartwarming, smile producing utterances? Say it isn't...
View ArticleThis Is What Happened When I Put Tinder Aside to Pursue the Girl of My Dreams
Warning: Some parts of this video may be NSFW. "Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." -- Max Frisch
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Evolution Expertly Explained With Emoji. Thank You, Bill Nye
More than 40 percent of Americans say they don’t accept evolution as scientific fact. Could emoji possibly change their minds? Bill Nye collaborated with the website Mashable to create an educational...
View ArticleNuclear Teetering on the Economic Precipice
This will be a bleak Christmas for the small Vermont community of Vernon. It is losing its economic mainstay. The owner of its proud, midsize nuclear plant, which has sustained the community for 42...
View ArticleSnapchat's Snapcash: Is Peer-to-Peer Payment Safe?
By Jessa Barron, NextAdvisor.com Do you need to pay a friend back for buying your movie ticket but won't see them for a while? Or maybe you want to send your nephew money for his birthday but fear the...
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The 20 Most-Googled Dog And Cat Questions Of 2014
To have a pet is to have questions about that pet. How much should I feed it? What is that goo coming out of its face? Does it miss me when I'm gone? For answers, you could turn to a veterinarian, or...
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The 15 Phases Of Your Failed New Year's Resolution
2015's your year. Your Instagram's going to go viral and you're going to set the track team mile record and it's going to be the best 365 days of your life. Or something like that. Everybody acts like...
View ArticleThree Ways to Replace That Old Hide-A-Key
Check out this scenario: You come home and discover you left your house keys in the office, corner bar or -- most likely -- on the kitchen table. Then, you remember that you've "hidden" a key behind...
View ArticleWho The Internet Says Are The World's Most Influential Thinkers Of 2014
If you were to do a systematic analysis of the English-speaking infosphere –- the blogosphere, the Twittersphere and Wikipedia pages -- to determine which 100 thinkers have the most influence in the...
View ArticleThe Best Is Yet To Come: Tech Leaders Predict What's Coming Next
As we begin to wind down the year, many executives within the tech industry are looking ahead to 2015 and evolving strategies based on expectations of what's coming next. Technology, which has the...
View ArticleSome Internet Activists Say Obama Didn't Go Far Enough
When Barack Obama came out publicly for the reclassification of the Internet as a public utility, his announcement indicated that the decades-long battle to maintain neutrality on the Web had entered a...
View ArticleAustralians Use #IllRideWithYou Hashtag In Show Of Solidarity With Muslims
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Some Australian social media users sent a message of solidarity to Muslims as the Sydney cafe siege went on for almost a day, offering to accompany anyone who felt...
View ArticleHow I Lost My Wife to an iPad and How I Plan to Get Her Back: A Year Later
Some of you may be wondering, who read my blog last year, how I'm doing? Did I indeed win the battle for the heart and soul of my amazing wife and beat the little tin man for her devotion and adoration...
View ArticleThe Plot for Tech to Drive You Crazy
It's a plot I tell you. Little things about the tech world are designed to make you think you're crazy. Here's my list of things that drove me to tech-stress this year. What's on your list? Phone...
View ArticleSeth Rogen & James Franco Cancel Press Appearances Following Threats Against...
After a terror threat made by hackers against anyone who plans to see "The Interview" was published, Seth Rogen and James Franco have canceled planned press appearances set for Tuesday, Wednesday and...
View ArticleAfter Copyright Debacle, Hollywood Tries Again with State Attorneys General
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." The wisdom of this old adage is again demonstrated in recent media reports which indicate that the entertainment industry has sought to...
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