Prices could increase by up to 80 cents over the next month
Read More This Collapsible Bike Helmet Doesn’t Welch On Safety To Save Space
It not only collapses down to fit in a bag or a purse—it’s stylish, too.
We can debate all day whether or not, given proper infrastructure, bike helmets are necessary. Regardless, in America, the infrastructure isn’t there, which makes helmets something everyone should wear. But we don’t, for a variety of reasons: because they’re bulky to lug around all day, because bike sharing programs like CitiBike don’t offer them, or because we’re thoughtless assholes with a god complex.
IBM’s Watson Can Now Help You Kick Ass In Fantasy Football
Big Blue’s cognitive computing platform is being integrated into a new app from Edge Up Sports to provide deep fantasy football analysis.
Looking for a little competitive edge in your fantasy football league this year? How about a little help from IBM’s Watson?
A Woman’s Most Powerful Salary Negotiation Tool? Silence
Probably works for guys, too.
Salary negotiations fill many people with fear, but studies show that women find them particularly challenging.
Cheaper yuan hurts U.S. businesses that sell to China
Devaluation is a decision by a government to adjust the value of a currency downward relative to another currency
Read More Drugmaker Glaxo shuts plant over Legionnaires’ bacteria
The manufacturing plant in North Carolina was closed after testing found the bacteria in a self-standing cooling tower
Read More How To Take Advantage Of Your Brain’s Hidden Productivity Powers
Your mental lists are distracting you from other, more productive uses of your brain. Here’s how to do a weekly brain dump instead.
If you think keeping everything you need to know neatly packed away in your head is a smart way to run your life, you’re probably hurting your productivity and stifling your creativity.
The Death Of LOL: How Facebook Users Laugh
Whether you use “haha,” “hehe,” or “lol” has more to do with your age and where you live than anything else, the social network finds.
Conveying that you find something humorous in real life can be challenging enough. (“Is a smile enough here, or do I need to laugh?” or “Wait, they look hurt. Did I actually laugh, or just laugh in my head?”) But on the Internet, laughing can be serious business. Is that “LOL” coming across as sarcastic? Does “heh” mean a joke fell flat? And does a crying emoji indicate more laughter than an emoji sticking its tongue out?
This App Uses Kids’ Own Unintelligible Texts To Teach Them Grammar
iCorrect brings the grammar police to your teens’ phones, and they won’t be LOLing.
Children write more these days than ever before, thanks to texting, Facebook, Tumblr, and whatever else they’re using that we haven’t even heard of yet. iCorrect is an add-on for Apple’s iMessage app that uses this fact to teach them better spelling and grammar. It works by not letting kids send a message until they’ve got everything right: no LOLs allowed.
Watch Astronauts Harvest And Eat The First Microgravity Greens
One giant leap for lettuce.
Intrepid farmers are already growing veggies in surprising places, including rooftops, warehouses, and even on highway billboards. But now leafy greens have gone where no greens have gone before: outer space.
