Staring At A Computer All Day (Or Night) Totally Does Affect Your Eyes
Do you spend more than seven hours a day parked in front of a computer monitor? Results from a newly published study suggest you could be stripping your “tear film” of a component that helps keep your eyes clean, lubricated and healthy.

June 22, 2014 at 4:17PM
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Why We Need to Tame Our Algorithms Like Dogs
There is a theory among evolutionary anthropologists that dogs evolved from beasts to pets because the canines that continued to survive were those that gained social intelligence.

June 22, 2014 at 10:07AM
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YouTube is coming to cable TV set-top boxes, with a little help from the cloud
Cable subscribers are starting to get access to YouTube and other online video services, thanks to cloud-based technology that brings modern apps to legacy set-top boxes.

June 22, 2014 at 9:12AM
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GM Wants You to Creepily Text Drivers by Scanning Their Plates
General Motors wants to make it easier for Chinese customers to curse out the moron who cut them off or get the digits of the attractive driver one car over at the stop light. So it’s developed an app called DiDi Plate that lets Android users text the owner of a car by simply scanning its license plate.

June 22, 2014 at 4:57AM
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Google Loon Wi-Fi balloon creates panic in New Zealand
Rescue helicopter dispatched for what was thought to be a crashing plane.

June 21, 2014 at 10:54PM
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How I Became a Bionic Chef
When I was young, people always used to say that if I were at a house party, the only way to find me would be to walk into the kitchen.

June 21, 2014 at 6:54PM
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This Tool Boosts Your Privacy by Opening Your Wi-Fi to Strangers
In an age of surveillance anxiety, the notion of leaving your Wi-Fi network open and unprotected seems dangerously naive. But one group of activists says it can help you open up your wireless internet and not only maintain your privacy, but actually increase it in the process.

June 21, 2014 at 3:54PM
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Riot Games Pays Employees $25,000 To Quit
“Rather than allow mismatches to fester, we want to resolve them quickly. This is good for the company, and good for the professional. … we’ll learn from this and make better hiring decisions as a result.”

June 21, 2014 at 10:02AM
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Look At This Cringeworthy Summer Camp For Adult To ‘Unplug’
Not being attached to electronic devices is not apparently a luxury people will pay money for.

June 21, 2014 at 9:02AM
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The Most Popular Social Network for Young People? Texting-And It’s Not Even Close
Just a third of high school seniors place a call each day, and more teens report using Pandora than Instagram, Snapchat, iTunes, Netflix.

June 21, 2014 at 8:01AM
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