Saxby Chambliss Not Taking Sides In CIA Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is not taking sides in a dispute between the panel's Democratic chairwoman and the nation's spy agency, saying the facts are...
View ArticleWhen Evolution Turns to Revolution: The Democratization of App Building Has...
It wasn't that long ago that web-savvy marketers were touting the advances in technology that allowed anyone to build a website, publish a blog, or embark on a social media campaign. The advent of...
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Will Cell Phones Prove as Cancerous as Cigarettes?
This week we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first handheld cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (pictured abpve), going on sale (which you can read more about here). But will we one day rue...
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On Brink Of Collapse, Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy Slashed Royalties To...
ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten reports: This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. At the end of 2011, Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation’s biggest oil and gas companies, was teetering on the...
View ArticleThe Expensive NASA Program That Congress Needs To Think Long And Hard About
It's no secret that budgets are tight in Congress, and NASA is no exception. While NASA wants $2-4 billion to explore the possibility of life on Jupiter's moon, Europa, the 2015 White House budget...
View ArticleWATCH: Content Marketing is Dead. What's next?
It's amazing how quickly content marketing turned into content mania, isn't it? The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time...
View ArticleThe 'Brain App' That's Better Than Spritz
We all have so much to read these days. Wouldn't it be nice if we could read it faster? The possibility that this fond wish could actually be granted by technology is what's driving the buzz about...
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Paris Makes Public Transport Free As Pollution Veils City Of Light
Paris authorities said Thursday they would make public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution.Jean-Paul Huchon, head of the...
View ArticleSocial Experiment Gets Complete Strangers To Hold Hands To Heat Up A Bus Shelter
In an effort to bring back old-school human interaction, Duracell created a social experiment that challenged strangers to unite. Earlier this winter, the battery company set up a bus shelter in...
View ArticleThe Facebook Lie We All Believe
What is your favorite parental duty? Maybe it's teaching your child something important, like riding a bike. Or fishing. Or perhaps you relish the chance to impart wisdom about the world? Serving...
View ArticleFrat Bros Are Using a Secret-Sharing App To Confess Things They Would Never...
If you’re not familiar with the app Whisper, here’s why you should be: Bros are dishing out their deepest fears, confessions, and insecurities on it 24/7, completely anonymously. Whisper is an app that...
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Coca-Cola's Fake Trailer Puts Noisy Moviegoers On The Spot
There's nothing more annoying than loud people in a movie theater. If common decency hasn’t taught people to be quiet at the cinema, perhaps this fake movie trailer by Coca-Cola will help out. At a...
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Mark Zuckerberg Unable To See Glaring Irony Of Anti-NSA Rant
Mark Zuckerberg wants President Obama to stop the U.S. government from spying on his users, and in doing so he's totally willing to ignore that his company's own ad plan is based around doing some...
View ArticleInventor Of Web Astounded By All The Cats Online
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is both worried and optimistic about the future of his creation. In celebration of the WWW’s 25th anniversary on March 12, Berners-Lee took some time to...
View ArticleTeen's Instagram Tribute To His Sick Great Grandma Needs No Filter
When Louisville, Ky., teen, Zach Belden, created an Instagram account for his great grandma, he had no idea how big of a following it would attract, WDRB reported. Grandma Betty is dying of cancer, so...
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5 Unexpected Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder
I wrote a post recently about ways that you can work smarter, not harder. As I worked through the list of techniques I'd collected, the post became so long that I had to split it in half. Here are even...
View ArticleJon Favreau: How Technology Has Changed The Film Industry
Jon Favreau talks about his new film, "Chef," and how new technology and social media have changed the way people make movies. To market the movie, Favreau said he created Vines with stars of the film...
View ArticleHappy Pi Day 2014! Everything You Need To Know About Annual Math Event
Today is the 26th celebration of National Pi Day, and the festivities are already underway. Pi is an irrational number that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You knew...
View ArticleBill Gates On Snowden: 'You Won't Find Much Admiration From Me'
"I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero."
View ArticleWhere Were These Windshield Wipers During The Polar Vortex?
Tired of wiping snow and ice off your car’s windshield? Well, one man has invented a system that can do the dirty work for you. Called the Wiper Assist, this self-slapping windshield wiper system will...
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