'Gay Check Online' Site Will Allegedly Tell You If You're Gay
A new website is claiming that it can help the user determine if they're gay by simply scanning their facial features. Called "Gay Check Online," the website scans the face of the user through their...
View ArticleComputers Don't Belong in Classrooms
Give students computers and they will learn more seems to be the basis behind Terry Grier's Houston Independent School District PowerUp initiative. The idea came to Superintendent Grier after his visit...
View ArticlePoor UX Could Kill Your Start Up
If you have a tech start up, the chances are you are trying to get to grips with product design, but you can't afford to pay a full time UX designer to help develop your interface. Good user experience...
View ArticleWhat State Lasts The Longest (And Shortest) In Bed?
If you've got some time, head to New Mexico. Fresh data from Spreadsheets, a sex-tracking App launched last August, may show how your state measures up -- endurance-wise -- to its neighbors. "We're...
View ArticleGoogle Wanted To Buy WhatsApp, Too
Two separate sources have told me that's how much Google (GOOG) offered to purchase WhatsApp.
View ArticleKepler Space Telescope's Amazing Discoveries Highlighted In New 'Deep...
How much have we really learned about alien planets? Twenty years ago, we knew nothing about any other worlds outside of our solar system. Now, we've discovered the Milky Way is teeming with planets...
View ArticleInequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp
If you ever wonder what's fueling America's staggering inequality, ponder Facebook's acquisition of the mobile messaging company WhatsApp . According to news reports today, Facebook has agreed to buy...
View ArticleLet's Put an End to '30 Under 30 Lists' and Recognize What Is to Come in Your...
I read an article today about how the lists that the tech world put out like "30 under 30," top blah blah blah under blah, etc. are really really wrong. We should stop doing them. The author of that...
View ArticleCan Your Phone Teach You a New Language?
This post first appeared on The Linguisticlast, a blog dedicated to language learning and all things language. You can follow The Linguisticlast on Twitter at @linguisticlast. Spoiler alert: No, your...
View ArticleNo Games, No Ads, No Gimmicks: Why WhatsApp Is The Startup Silicon Valley...
Two days ago, if I'd mentioned the name Jan Koum, you would've had no idea who I was talking about. Today, you might recognize him as the now billionaire CEO of WhatsApp, the messaging service that on...
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Amazon Prime Pricing: A Sensitive Subject
Churn Data Belies Intent to Renew Memberships Loyalty Depends on Video, Other Factors Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released new survey analysis of member loyalty and price sensitivity of...
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How to Find Someone's Secret Hangups by Looking at Their Profile Photo
Image by freeparking (Flickr), CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons You are judged by your appearance. Fully aware of this reality, you dress and style yourself accordingly (whether you care to admit this...
View ArticleWhatsApp CEO Is Against Whatever Facebook Is For
Mark Zuckerberg may be Facebook friends with the guys whose company he just bought for $19 billion. But by all indications, Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s CEO and Facebook’s newest board member, just doesn't...
View ArticleThe 'I' in Internet Addiction
Like many of us, I have an Internet problem. An addiction, if you will. What does it say about us that, as a 2013 KPCB study reported, average mobile phone users check their device 150 times a day?...
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The Egonomics of Clout (Klout): Don't Let Ego Outrank Your Influence in Business
Before we begin. Yes, I spelt Clout correctly! The dictionary definition of 'clout' reads: a heavy blow with the hand or a hard object or "a clout round the ear." Else it refers to an influence or...
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The Story Behind That Insane Shanghai Tower Climb
The insane YouTube video of Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov swept across the interwebs this week, inducing vertigo everywhere. Not only was a stomach-dropping video produced, but some pretty...
View Article5 Reasons Your Company's Mobile Recruitment Strategy Is Failing
Mobile technology has completely changed the job search and hiring process. Whereas candidates once sat at a computer to job search, recruiters now have to deal with a slew of candidates who are...
View ArticleElders Try Flappy Bird With Hilarious Results (VIDEO)
Flappy Bird is hard enough for millenials, but imagine if you didn't grow up with computer games? In TheFineBros latest installment of their "Elders React" series, the comedy team sat a group of elders...
View ArticleComcast, Time Warner Cable To Face 'Monopsony' Claims In Antitrust Case
By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If U.S. antitrust enforcers decide to challenge the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc, it may be because of an idea with a...
View ArticleFitbit Recalls Fitbit Force After Complaints Of Severe Rashes
Fitbit has recalled its popular activity-tracking wristband, the Fitbit Force, after a number of customers complained of serious skin rashes, blisters and peeling skin after wearing the device. Fitbit...
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