Here's the best strategy to quit smoking, according to research
Oftentimes, money speaks louder than words. Apparently, that aphorism applies to cigarettes too.A new study finds that money incentives work better than behavioral therapy and nicotine patches in...
View ArticleWatch a girl control someone else's arm with her brain
The brain is a complex wonder of the human body. I mean, it pretty much named itself. And it's a great shame that relatively little is known about the brain.Greg Gage is a man on a mission to make...
View ArticleIn 1995 Bill Gates gave this crazy Microsoft presentation where he put...
In the mid-1990s, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was a pretty radical dude. Here he is jumping over a chair for no reason on live TV:He's still pretty radical, of course. He's got a foundation with his...
View ArticleZac Efron is starring in a movie that looks like 'The Social Network' for DJing
Warner Bros. just debuted a trailer for a new Zac Efron movie and it looks a lot like "The Social Network" for DJing. Following last summer's smash hit "Neighbors," Efron will return to college in "We...
View ArticleThe numbers are in on how many people are using others' Netflix and Hulu...
If you're using someone else's Netflix password, you're not alone. A new report from Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research firm, found that more than 10% of households in the U.S. that have...
View ArticlePeter Dinklage is a Donkey Kong champ in new 'Pixels' trailer
The second trailer for "Pixels"— this summer's Adam Sandler movie about classic video games out to destroy us all — is a lot like the first. Aliens are on an arcade game-inspired rampage, and only Adam...
View ArticleThe ugly truth about the wildly popular 'Game Of War' featuring Kate Upton
If you're a human with a phone or TV, chances are you've at least heard of "Game of War."The mobile war-strategy game, made by Machine Zone, is making a ton of money (it has the second-highest gross in...
View ArticleSamsung is in a pickle and its newest phone isn't helping
Samsung's bet on a new, well-designed flagship phone isn't paying off as well as the company had hoped.The company told the Korea-based Yonhap News Agency that it has shipped 10 million units of the...
View ArticleHow one woman turned her dog-walking side gig into an elite business without...
Kara Kleindienst's business, The Barking Meter, is as high-pressure as a dog-walking company can be.TBM is trusted with more than 100 of New York City's most pampered and posh pups (pictured throughout...
View ArticleA new Samsung feature lets you easily transfer whatever you're doing to other...
Samsung released a beta version of Samsung Flow on Monday, which lets you transfer whatever you're doing on one Samsung device to another seamlessly.It's basically Samsung's version of Apple's Handoff...
View ArticleOne innovation changed pig farming drastically
Pigs and chickens have much in common: they eat similar diets (chickens, like pigs, are omnivorous) and grow to slaughter weight quickly — in less than two months for chickens and less than six months...
View ArticleThe very first Apple Watch update is here, but it's kind of a pain to install...
The lucky few who received their Apple Watches can update to the newest version of Watch OS, the device's operating system.It's the Watch's very first update, and it might remind you of your very first...
View ArticleConventional wisdom is totally wrong about the safest place on a train
The deadly Amtrak derailment on May 12 in Philadelphia, which killed at least eight people and injured more than 200 others, may have people wondering, where is the safest place to sit on a...
View ArticleScientists have discovered an incredibly easy way to make morphine, but it...
Last fall, two scientists reached out to tech policy expert Kenneth Oye and his colleagues for some advice.The scientists had elucidated nearly every step to a pathway that would end in the use of...
View ArticleIt turns out millennials are sleeping around much less than we thought
Falling marriage rates, the rise of hookup apps like Tinder, and the evergreen text-based booty call might all make you think that millennials are putting more notches on the headboard than ever...
View ArticleThe history of medicine will seem blunt and random compared with what's...
What we think of as modern medicine will look like primitive guesswork as we start to understand the factors that make a treatment perfect for one person yet completely ineffective for another."So much...
View ArticleThis brewery makes beer using only the water it can pull from the desert air
Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on the planet; some parts haven’t seen rainfall for centuries. But the region is often shrouded in a dense fog locally called camanchaca, from which...
View ArticleThis woman got famous by dating her backpack on Instagram, and now she's...
Genevieve Blau and her pink Jansport backpack might just be the happiest couple on Instagram today.After their "relationship" won the hearts of the internet, Blau and her backpack were offered an...
View ArticleHere's why some scientists are convinced there's life on Mars
Mars is no Earth.Our planet is swaddled in a nice atmospheric blanket that protects us from dangerous blasts of radiation that permeate space. Mars barely has any atmosphere and its surface is...
View ArticleSpotify can now pick a song for you based on how fast you’re running
Spotify revealed a new "Running" option for its mobile app during an event on Wednesday.The new Spotify app will use sensors in your mobile device to figure out your running pace. You'll be able to...
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