Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World


30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

Best Diet Plans


They say the word diet contains the word “die”. And this may be one reason no one likes to diet. It is a boring and tasteless process that leaves you exhausted and craving all the delicious junk food...
    






Google Reveals New Product: ‘Smart’ Contact Lenses


Google “glucose” right now, and you’ll find a slew of results with Google in the header. This is because Google is getting into a new market: Diabetes. The company has just revealed a new method for...
    






Smart Contact Lenses? Leave It To Google


If you Google “blood sugar” right now, you’ll find a slew of results with Google in the header. This is because Google is getting into a new market: Diabetes. The company has just revealed a new...
    






America’s Next Great Prescription


Scientists have made a discovery that is proven to reduce premature death from heart attacks and stroke, lower the risk of diabetes and certain cancers, control blood pressure, prevent osteoporosis,...
    






How Big Is Twitch’s Audience? Huge.


Gaming-centric video web site Twitch ended 2013 with more than 45 million unique monthly viewers who watched, on average, 106 minutes of video a day, according to an end-of-year report from the...
    






Where Will All The SMS Messages Go When Texting Dies?


The humble text message is not disappearing overnight, but less SMSs will be sent in 2014 than in 2013. People are communicating more than ever, so these messages are going somewhere. For the...
    






China video sites confident public will pay


China's video industry confident it can beat piracy, persuade public to pay for online content BEIJING (AP) — When media studies student Liu Zhiqi settles down to watch a movie or TV...
    






Mobile Apps May Not Pave The Way To Developer Riches, Sales Average Less Than $1,250 A Day


Less than 0.01 percent. That’s how many mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their creators at the end of 2018, according to new research from Gartner Inc. Of paid applications,...
    






Bangkok’s Shutdown Day Could Last Much Longer


Monday,  January 13, is “Shutdown Day” for the anti-government, anti-election protesters that have been rallying around Bangkok for almost two months. Barring a coup, these rallies intended to...