For adults who crave candy and ice cream almost as much as their children, the bad news on sugar continues to pour in. Earlier this year, research into sugar’s deleterious effects showed a connection to cancer, heart disease and diabetes. More recently, the American Dental Association reminded everyone just how bad sugar is for their teeth. … [Read more...]
Screening Room Entertains Boos and Hisses from CinemaCon Bigwigs
Screening Room, Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to bring new movies into homes for $50 — the same day they hit theaters — got a round of loud boos and hisses this week from the biggest of bigwigs at CinemaCon. … [Read more...]
ClassDojo Can Make Parent-teacher Meetings Obsolete
ClassDojo has raised $21 million in Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school. … [Read more...]
Shrimp and Asparagus Skillet Recipe
Are you looking for something you can quickly and easily make that tastes great? Something perhaps for a weeknight dinner when you have maybe only 30 minutes to cook, and even less time to clean up afterwards? … [Read more...]
Baby Pulled from Rubble After Earthquake in Japan
As rescue crews searched for survivors in Thursday's deadly 6.5-magnitude earthquake in southern Japan, they discovered a little baby beneath the rubble of her home. … [Read more...]
Hastert. No, He Hasn’t Been Punished Enough
Once upon a time, Dennis Hastert looked forward to being the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House of Representatives. Today, he is more likely to be remembered for his reclining chair. … [Read more...]
Women Fight to Clear Names After Prison Release
It was the beginning of a nightmare for the women who would become known as the "San Antonio Four." Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez were all convicted and sentenced to prison after jury trials in 1997 and 1998. … [Read more...]
Facebook Terragraph Wants to Give Everyone WiFi
Facebook is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas. … [Read more...]
How to Smoke Pot the Right Way on “Pot Day”
Buckle up, America. This trip is only getting started. As we head towards this year's April 20 — a.k.a. 4/20, a national celebration of everything pot-related — the spread of recreational and medical marijuana legalization is legitimizing a substance that for decades was consumed in the shadows and slandered with banal stereotypes. … [Read more...]
Soon You’ll Be Automatically Tagged in Videos on Facebook
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. … [Read more...]