New Tech Tools for Travel
By Jessica Hoffman When planning a trip across India, expect to be shocked by the number of ways you can go from point A to point B. According to Amit Somani from website MakeMyTrip.com, the country's...
View ArticleFacebook Is Down For Some, Don't Freak Out [UPDATE: It's Back Up]
UPDATE: 6:30 p.m. -- Facebook is now back, according to Down Right Now. "Earlier this afternoon, we experienced a load-balancing issue that prevented some people from accessing Facebook for a brief...
View ArticleMillennials In Love: Why They're Not So Different From Their Parents After All
This is a whole new breed of breeders. Except it’s not. The popular trope of the Millennial age is that sex and love might not be any different now from what they’ve always been, but the way they’re...
View ArticleSochi Olympics Cybersecurity Threats Cited By U.S. In Travel Alert
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday issued a fresh travel alert for Americans attending the Sochi Winter Olympics, citing cybersecurity threats and warning them to...
View ArticleWhich Game Should Have Won 'Game Of The Year'? (POLLS)
The 17th annual D.I.C.E. Awards (that's Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain to you n00bs), which celebrates outstanding achievements in the world of gaming, took place Feb 6. Among the nominees...
View ArticleInnovation In Financial Services-Oxymoron? Future Tech Lessons Learned From...
My personal passion for innovation and tech (Geek Girl alert!) has lead me to try and push financial services firms from a stone-age mentality about technology toward the Jetsons-era approach taken by...
View ArticleThe Sochi Olympics' Official Website Is Bizarre And Extremely Russian
Between shower spy cams and stray dogs, the Sochi Winter Olympics have been a bit bizarre, to say the least. But you don't have to go to Russia to see the absurdity yourself. Just check out the...
View ArticleThis Boy's Goal Was To Get 1 'Like' On His YouTube Video. The Internet Gave...
The video above is of a little boy named Josh totally flipping out over his YouTube "likes." That's right, his YouTube "likes." Here's the backstory: It was Josh's dream to get just one "like" on his...
View Article'Silicon Valley' Teaser Promises More Penis Jokes On HBO
HBO takes on the tech world in the new teaser for "Silicon Valley." The eight-episode half-hour sitcom is set to debut on April 6 and, based on the short clip below, young hot shots in the Bay Area are...
View Article'Flappy Bird' Creator Taking App Down: 'I Cannot Take This'
After soaring into our hearts with equal parts frustration and addiction, it looks like the viral smartphone game "Flappy Bird" is coming in for a landing. For good. The Vietnam-based creator of the...
View ArticleKansas City Man Predicts ESurance Super Bowl Commercial Winner Before...
Esurance, a car insurance provider, stole the thunder of every media giant that ponied up $4 million for a :30 second spot in this year's Super Bowl by running a brilliant campaign around Twitter....
View ArticleAOL Chief Walks Back New 401K Policy
In a letter to employees, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong reversed the company’s recent decision to change some 401(k) benefits.
View ArticleHow Mentoring May Be the Key to Solving Tech's Women Problem
Lack of talent. That's what many people will say is the reason for the lack of women in STEM fields. But it's more than that. It's true that less than 20 percent of the bachelor's degrees in computer...
View ArticleSTEM Selling: Beautiful Women Conquering New Territories and Old Stereotypes
I have to say that I was incredibly thrilled to see Marissa Mayer's face at the center of CNBC's recent broadcast correlating better returns with the hiring of good-looking CEOs, and that's not...
View ArticleExotic Particles & Extra Dimensions May Await Discovery, Physicist Says
LONDON — Exotic particles never before detected and possibly teensy extra dimensions may be awaiting discovery, says a physicist, adding that those searching for such newbies should keep an open mind...
View ArticleAOL CEO Reverses Benefit Cuts, Apologizes For 'Distressed Babies' Comment
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced Saturday that the company will reverse course on a controversial new 401(k) policy, a decision that followed an employee backlash against the change as well as comments...
View ArticleThere Has Never Been a Better Time for CIOs to Fix IT's Reputation
A recent Gartner study predicts that by 2015, 25 percent of large global organizations will appoint a Chief Digital Officer (CDO). In a time where there is a lot of technology analyst talk about the...
View ArticleRefuge Restrooms Helps Users Locate Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Finding a safe bathroom space has always been an issue for transgender, genderqueer, non-binary individuals -- people from all over the spectrum of gender identity. Now, a new website called Refuge...
View Article'Guggenheim' Painting Shown To Be Fake With Help Of 'Bomb Peak' Technique
A painting in the Guggenheim collection initially attributed to French modern artist Fernand Léger has languished out of view for decades after it was suspected to be a fake. Now scientists have...
View Article'SNL' Cast Member Brooks Wheelan Records One Second Of His Day For 365 Days
He may not yet be a household name, but Brooks Wheelan is a "Saturday Night Live" cast member who had one hell of a year. In a video montage that splices together footage from one second of his day for...
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