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Your Testicles Have Taste Receptors
Taste receptors — the proteins responsible for our ability to taste salty, sweet, and bitter foods — aren't just present on our tongues.Recently researchers are finding them present all over the body,...
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Opportunities In The Mobile Photo-Sharing Ecosystem: Is There Life After...
The digital camera feature has been a major driver of mobile phone sales for a decade.But Instagram's sale to Facebook last year was a watershed moment for the mobile photo-sharing industry.Among other...
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11 Ways Americans Can Act Canadian When Traveling Abroad
Unlike the brutish Americans or Brits, Canadians are generally thought of as gentle people who cause little offense when traveling abroad.Flightnetwork.com, a Canada-based booking engine, believes that...
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AMERICA IS BURNING: Severe Drought Causes Rash Of Major Wildfires
Wildfires are a yearly occurrence in the western U.S., but they have been especially bad this year.Sunday night, an Arizona wildfire killed 19 firefighters and destroyed half the structures in Yarnell,...
View ArticleRemember this? Ex-AOL CEO Randy Falco's
Remember this? Ex-AOL CEO Randy Falco's email from 2008, explaining why he bought Bebo for $850 million: "This acquisition is game changing for AOL. It puts us squarely in a leading position in social...
View ArticleBob Iger will continue as Disney CEO thr
Bob Iger will continue as Disney CEO through 2016. He was initially going to step down March 31, 2015.Join the conversation about this story »
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ROAD MAP: The Best Stops Along California's Highway 1
As much as we love perusing the colorific streets of S.F., our real-deal happy place is a picturesque drive down the Northern California coast — tunes blasting, top down, friends in tow.So, now that...
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Party Of Old, Tired Ideas Plans To Attack Democrats As Party Of Old, Tired Ideas
Republicans plan to run against Hillary Clinton as "Old News," reports the New York Times. This is stupid—and not just for the reason everybody is pointing out.Of course, attacks on Clinton's age are...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Memo To Employees About Don Mattrick Leaving...
Here is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's memo to the company's employees about Don Mattrick leaving to run Zynga. Note that he doesn't say who is going to replace Mattrick for Microsoft. From: Steve...
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Finance Blogger Says He's Getting Hosed By A Secret Fee Called 'The Yuppie...
Reuters' Felix Salmon wrote a harrowing story about a $200 debt he owes Citibank, and how the bank is forcing him into debt slavery for every nickel and dime of interest on that loan.It isn't that...
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8 Ways To Stay Cool If You Don't Have Air Conditioning
Summer is here. Many are already feeling the impacts of unusually hot weather as record-breaking temperatures rolled through several Western states this past weekend. Extreme heat presents many...
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Samsung Planted A Famous Producer In Jay-Z's New Ad As A Prop
It's safe to say that the 23 million people who have watched Jay-Z's three-minute long Samsung ad for "Magna Carta Holy Grail" assumed that famous long-haired and white bearded producer Rick Rubin, who...
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Egyptian Military Chief: This Is Not A 'Coup'
The Egyptian military has issued another statement seeking to clarify the circumstances of its 48 hour deadline on the government.Basically, they're saying that they're not engaging in a coup.Despite...
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Meet The Man Whose Job It Is To Save Zynga (ZNGA, MSFT)
Zynga made it official today. Its CEO Mark Pincus is stepping down and will be replaced by Don Mattrick, the Microsoft executive who until this week was in charge of the Xbox business. He starts July...
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What Social Media Platforms Are Right For Your Brand?
Brands need to be present wherever audiences invest their time and attention. Increasingly, that means social media. U.S. audiences spend a half-hour to three hours daily on social media. Social media...
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This Pillow Glows When Your Long-Distance Partner Goes To Bed
The minds at UK-based design shop Little Riot have created a pillow that might be just what your relationship needs.Romance is complicated just by itself, and when you add distance to the equation...
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Check Out The Parabolic Surge In Texas Oil Production
Here's some more data from AEI's Mark Perry showing the insane surge in Texas oil production:The state now produces more than 2.4 million barrels of oil a day — a level not seen since the mid-'80s.And...
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The Startup That Digitizes Your Snail Mail Just Raised $5 Million
Outbox is a service that collects your postal mail and digitizes it, freeing you from the hassle of ever walking to your mailbox.The digital mail startup just raised $5 million in Series A funding,...
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Faced With Sluggish Surface Sales, Microsoft Is Pulling Out Its Secret Weapon...
Microsoft was hoping its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets would be so irresistible that enterprises would forget about their iPads.Things haven't worked out that way. So Microsoft is bringing in...
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The 5 Best Barbecue Joints In The Austin Area
Sure, Central Austin has some amazing places to eat smoked meat. But what about the areas outside the city limits?Lucky for us, the towns near Austin boast some of the finest barbecue in the country....
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