Feel an urge to check Facebook one more time before diving into this story? Do it. A little hungry? Grab a bite to eat. Use the restroom if that’s on your mind. Cold? Grab a blanket. OK, now that those things are out of the way, let’s talk about distraction. [Keep reading]
It might be the Pandora’s Box of all Pandora’s Boxes. A European Union court has ruled that Google must remove results from its search engine that point to a newspaper post about a Spanish resident’s 1988 auction of his repossessed home. With the ruling, the European Union Court of Justice [Keep reading]
It’s easy to make fun of “Facebook makes us sad” research. After all, when we were kids, we didn’t even have Facebook while walking uphill to school both ways. But Facebook is the way we live now; ignore such research at your own peril, and the peril of the folks [Keep reading]
Penny Williams watches her bills very closely, so she noticed right away when her CenturyLink high-speed Internet bill rose mysteriously by $1.88. A glance at the paperwork revealed two new fees accounted for the difference, but the listed explanation didn’t make much sense. One line of the bill included the [Keep reading]
A Mother’s heart has to be big, and endure many things, but among the most painful — seeing your young adult child thrash about, unable to find a clear path to happiness. Jobs aren’t everything, of course, but the 20s are all about finding satisfying work that pays the bills [Keep reading]
The Facebook status update got the attention of Bryan Rutberg’s friends right away: “BRYAN IS IN URGENT NEED OF HELP!!” Rutberg’s friends soon received emails with frantic pleas for aid. He was stuck in London after a mugging and desperately needed money to get his family home. Rutberg’s daughter, at [Keep reading]
I went laptop shopping this week and became horribly depressed. Not only were the laptops so much more expensive than I was expecting, and if you feel the same, check out this article on the best laptops under $400 to save you some money, but every laptop I came across [Keep reading]
During numerous appearances on CNBC last year, producers there gave me a pet name. “Big Data Hater.” Whenever they wanted to do a segment on the wonders of Big Data, they trotted out experts talking about how much money was to be made by dumping everything into a spreadsheet. Then [Keep reading]
It’s time to take the issue of passenger airplane turbulence and injuries seriously. It’s time to require more choppy air data from the airlines — right now, they provide essentially none. And it’s time you simply kept your seat belt on every moment you are in the air. For the [Keep reading]
We all talk about timing as if it’s the most powerful force on Earth. Bad Timing, for example. can ruin a good love affair, or a great product. Everyone knows this. Yet very few try to do anything about it. Humans are helpless, you might think, when confronted with the [Keep reading]
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