FCC Net Neutrality Plan In Chaos
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler appears to have misjudged public opinion and his fellow Democratic commissioners regarding his "Open Internet" proposal.
View ArticleInstantly Up Your Instagram Game With These Simple Tricks
Are you secretly harboring dreams of Instagram glory? Do you spend an unseemly amount of time debating filters, only to have your most epic sunset shot outperformed by a friend's perfectly lit and...
View ArticleUN Weighs Laws For Future 'Killer Robots'
GENEVA (AP) — Diplomats are urging new international laws to govern the use of "killer robots" if the technology becomes reality someday. The debate is the first to be held at the United Nations about...
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How I Met Edward Snowden
“I Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Light” Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new...
View ArticleNew Robotic Arm Catches Flying Objects With Lightning-Fast Reflexes (VIDEO)
There are some things a robot can't do, but catching a flying object is no longer one of them. With its four-fingered, three-jointed hand, a new robot can catch a ball, a bottle or a tennis racket...
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These Medical Marvels Are Proof Science Is Amazing
Modern medicine is amazing. Research is in development to help people with so-far-unfixable health problems (such as regenerating nerves in people with hearing loss, or helping to repair nerve damage...
View ArticleSocial Media Can Facilitate the Grieving Process
"At least he's not suffering anymore." I heard that a lot after my 14-year-old son, Austin, died in 2005. It's one of those phrases that well-intentioned people tend to say when they don't know what...
View ArticleAirbnb Can't Even Post Ads Without Getting Attacked These Days
Airbnb's legal woes in New York City show no signs of stopping -- and now one local official is taking aim at the company's advertorial presence in the subway system. The New York Daily News reports...
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Emotional Video Uses Google Glass To Capture The Joy Of Love And Family
Who knew so much happiness could be held inside a manilla envelope? This sweet short film, titled "Seeds," follows a young man on his way to visit his mother in India, and tells a moving story about...
View ArticleNew Research: Millenials Prefer Paper to Screens -- But Do They Perform...
When I went back to UCLA to get a PhD in developmental psychology, I thought I would be a technological dinosaur compared to the much younger students in my cohort. But funnily enough, often I used...
View ArticleHow I'm Turning My Nano-Brewery Into a Mega-Success Using Facebook
This essay was produced in partnership with Facebook Stories. Facebook is a cosponsor of National Small Business Week, May 12-16. Read about other small businesses on Facebook Stories. --- Two years...
View ArticleThis Is Why You Should Spell-Check Before Sending A Breakup Text
The only thing more insulting than being dumped via text? Being dumped via text by someone who can't spell. Father of the year he is not. Keep in touch! Check out HuffPost Divorce on Facebook and...
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Saudis Flock To Visit Paralyzed Man In Hospital, Prove Internet Isn't Killing...
Most of the time, social media is blamed for decreasing genuine human interaction. This story is quite the opposite. After an accident left him paralyzed a year and a half ago, Ibrahim, a 24-year-old...
View ArticleSuper Mario-'Game Of Thrones' Opening Sequence Mashup Is 8-Bit Perfection
What happens when the Seven Kingdoms of "Game of Thrones" are replaced by the lands of "Super Mario World?" You get this epic 8-bit mashup, complete with the 'GoT' theme done in the style of an old...
View ArticleSamsung Finally Apologizes To Workers Who Got Cancer While Making Chips
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. apologized and promised compensation to chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for families and activists...
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Our National Netflix Addiction Just Keeps Getting Worse
Netflix is a data hog. And that hog is growing fatter. The streaming video service now accounts for a whopping 34.2 percent of Internet traffic sent to North American homes during peak evening hours,...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Just Bought Yahoo Its Own Snapchat Clone
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has bought Blink, a mobile messaging startup that lets users send messages that self-destruct and control who sees their messages and for how long. The deal comes just days after...
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Finally, An Explanation For The Coffee Rings In Your Mugs
What's the deal with coffee rings? You know them well -- those dark, circular stains that inevitably form when you're drinking a cup of coffee. Whether you accidentally spill a little on your desk or...
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Erasing Your Engagement From The Internet Is Impossible -- I Know, I Tried
No one is more excited about my wedding than Facebook. Or possibly Google. As they seem to see it, since getting engaged I’ve become an impressionable ATM from which their advertisers expect to...
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This Is Your Country With 10 Feet Of Sea Level Rise
This story originally appeared on Climate Central. New research indicates that climate change has already triggered an unstoppable decay of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The projected decay will lead...
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