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The Ten Most Popular Android Apps in Cuba
There's a green robot with antennae everywhere you look. In the mobile phone repairers' ads, on certain nice T-shirts and even staring at us from the windshields of some cars. Not only does the...
View ArticleGOP Politician-Turned-Entrepreneur Supports Big Minimum Wage Boost
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democrats across the nation are eager to make increasing the minimum wage a defining campaign issue in 2014, but in California a proposal to boost the pay rate to $12 an hour is...
View ArticleWATCH: Authenticity (Still) Rules
Someone recently told me that "authenticity" is the new marketing bullshit. There's truth to that -- if it's applied as the new sales pitch of the moment. There's always a bit of bullshit in sales...
View ArticleTweets And Threats: Gangs Find New Home On The Net
CHICAGO (AP) — The video is riddled with menace and swagger: Reputed gang members in Chicago point their guns directly at the camera. A bare-chested young man brandishes an assault weapon. They flash...
View ArticleShould We Encourage Kids to Play With Dangerous Things?
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering school, shares his radical views denouncing child safety regulations. In his recent TED Talk, he mocks...
View ArticleSecurity Breach Hits More Prominent U.S. Retailers, Report Says
By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last...
View ArticleMagnetic Levitation Explained In Incredible Slow Motion (VIDEO)
Want to levitate? All you need are magnets, liquid nitrogen and superconductors. Well, maybe not exactly. But if you want to make a model train levitate, those were the ingredients used in a new...
View ArticleSCRUFF, Gay App, Launches 'Gay Slang Dictionary'
Gay app SCRUFF has launched a new initiative that hopes to solve the pesky problem of facing a language barrier the next time you're traveling abroad and looking for a hook up. Called the "Gay Slang...
View ArticleWatch All 156 Episodes Of "The Twilight Zone," Right Here, Right Now, At The...
As you may have suspected, watching all 156 episodes of "The Twilight Zone" is a supremely trippy experience. See for yourself in the video above, a dizzying tribute to the iconic Sci-Fi series by Omni...
View Article'Girls' Is Headed To YouTube As HBO Puts Season 3 Premiere Online
No HBO? No problem! HBO is putting tonight's Season 3 premiere of "Girls" on YouTube in its entirety just a mere 12 hours after its initial broadcast. The YouTube move makes sense after HBO's other...
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Here's How To Stop Snapchat Spam
Snapchat's terrible month just got worse. The app apparently has a big spam problem and its users are complaining about a flood of Snaps, disappearing photo messages, from strangers. On Monday, the...
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The 'Eyes' Have It. Thoughts On the Evolution of the Visual Search
With smartphones having fast become our new best friend, we now have the incredible power of connected search in our fingertips 24 hours a day. We can extract an answer to almost any question...
View ArticleThe Visual Effects In 'Wolf Of Wall Street' Will Surprise You
"The Wolf of Wall Street" didn't have as many visual effects as "Gravity," but without the power of computer technology many of the Martin Scorsese film's most memorable moments wouldn't have happened....
View ArticleIt's Time We Got to Know Our Homeless
While working with the San Francisco homeless community over the past six years, I have often thought about and wished there were a better way for people to get to know the over 4,000 people living on...
View ArticleYou Can Now Get Fined $1 For Taking A Selfie
If being told your selfie obsession is alarmingly narcissistic isn’t enough to curb your habit of sharing duck-face portraits, two college students have found another tactic that might convince you to...
View ArticleGoogle Buys Nest For $3.2 Billion
Google is getting in the thermostat game. The company announced on Monday that it purchased Nest, the maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. Founded by former...
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Science May Explain Why Your Friendships Fall Apart
This shows networks created by phone calls (blue) made by participants in the study (yellow) and the bonds of friendship between the participants (red) in the first half of the investigation period....
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The Five Best Sports Influencer Endorsements On The Web: (2 of 2)
In Part One of this two part series on the best sports endorsements on the web, I took a look at three creative and results-driven campaigns that leveraged influential sports figures for solid...
View ArticleLadies, Help Your Guy Friends Out and Review Them On Lulu
Last week, my good friend on the East Coast, who I will call 'Bob,' texted me after midnight in a tizzy about a new dating app called Lulu. I knew this was serious because I hadn't heard from Bob in...
View ArticleWaywire Editor's Cool CES Videos 2014
This year the buzz at CES was all about wearables and drones. And heck, when you can find a wearable devices that controls a drone... well, you're in geek heaven. To be fair, there's lots to explore --...
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