This 'Drinkable Book' Is A Scientific Water Breakthrough That Will Save...
In this case, you can go ahead and judge a book by its cover. Across the globe, 3.4 million people die each year from water-related diseases. The statistic is particularly staggering considering that...
View ArticleThe Premature Death of Twitter
The knives are out. As Twitter struggles to grow their user base, a chorus of grumbles has risen from Wall Street to Silicon Valley heralding the end of the social network. The Atlantic even offered up...
View ArticleGamma Ray Burst Helps Map Universe's 'Cosmic Dark Ages'
Near the beginning, the universe was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. That's because until about a billion years after the big bang, there were no galaxies or stars to...
View ArticleStudent Texts 'Goodbye Mama' In Final Message Right Before Tornado Strikes
A 22-year-old college student sent a final text to his mom moments before an April 27 tornado struck his house, KNWA reports. Jeffrey Hunter was hiding in a bathroom in Vilonia, Ark. with his father...
View ArticleAmazon Now Lets You Add To Your Cart By Tweeting
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon wants to make shopping online as easy as a tweet. The online retailer is introducing a service that lets Twitter users add Amazon.com products to their carts without leaving the...
View ArticleThe 3 Manager Dog Breeds
When it comes to managing your team are you a Sheepdog, Golden Retriever or a Greyhound? By Elaine Wherry (Co-founder & CXO, Meebo) I know the names of more dogs than people in my neighborhood....
View ArticleEta Aquarid Meteor Shower 2014 To Peak Early Tuesday Morning (LIVESTREAM VIDEO)
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo tonight? Keep the tequila flowing, because you've got a reason to stay up late -- you just might spot some shooting stars! The 2014 Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to...
View ArticleNike Fuel Is Dead: Are Fitness Tracking Wristbands a Fad?
Nike recently discontinued Nike Fuel bands and fired a bunch of related staff. President and CEO Mark Parker said: "I think we will be part of wearables going forward. It'll be integrated into other...
View Article5 Simple Ways To Improve Your SEO Today
You don't have to know everything about SEO to start reaping the benefits of it. There are some small but important search engine optimization changes you can make right away. Here are 5 simple things...
View ArticleWho's Looking Out for Consumers in the Sharing Economy?
The only thing surprising about Airbnb's ugly confrontation with New York's attorney general is that it took six years to get to this point. Despite operating in one of the most notoriously regulated...
View ArticleMicrosoft's 'Halo' Show May Be Coming To Showtime
Xbox Entertainment Studios is reportedly in talks to bring its "Halo" series to Showtime. Variety reports that Xbox Entertainment Studios and Showtime are “deep in negotiations” to develop the show for...
View ArticleWhether You're Building a Robot or a Book, Science + Creativity = Magic
No question about it. My husband and I are opposites. He's a software engineer and I'm a writer. When people glance at my computer screen, they're confronted by a maze of thorny paragraphs, while his...
View ArticleAOL, Yahoo, YouTube Each Take Unique Road to Video
It used to be, video was one thing -- video. But as the worlds of television and Web hurtle toward their now seemingly inevitable convergence, a number of the web's largest players are staking unique...
View ArticleRakesh Agrawal's Epic Twitter Meltdown Leads To War Of Words With PayPal
Talk about burned bridges. Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal was an executive at PayPal until Friday, when he fired off a series of insulting tweets, including one that called a fellow PayPal exec a "piece of...
View ArticleRe-Designing Justice in Liberia
This post was originally posted on the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Last year, in the West Point township of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, an enterprising community leader named Thomas...
View ArticleWhy You're Probably Paying Way Too Much For Cable TV
When you get that cable bill in the mail at the end of the month, does it make you cringe? You're not alone. It's no secret that cable is an expensive luxury. With rising costs and more affordable and...
View ArticleKnow Everyone in the Room Instantly: How SocialRadar Is Disrupting Networking
Everyone has that terrible moment of dread. You walk into a party full of people and feel you don't know a single soul. But what if you did and just didn't know it? Imagine being able to walk into a...
View ArticleThe Consumerization of Software Development in Business
For far too long, enterprise software has lagged behind its consumer counterparts. When compared to the progress in digital media and consumer software, some of the applications used to power the...
View ArticleElon University Professor Dismissed After Sending Sexual Texts To Student...
Elon University’s Religious Studies professor, Hans Arneson, has been dismissed from his position after administrators learned he was ready and willing to f**k several of his female students. Or at...
View ArticleThe New Economics of Caring - and Why Social Media Drives it
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes "The Kids Share a Shake" by andrechinn is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Sharing is one of the most...
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