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One swab from the surface of your phone can tell scientists all about you

May 23, 2019 at 2:07 p.m.

Just how dirty is the typical smartphone? Dirty enough that a sample swab from the surface of a phone can accurately predict people's lifestyle choices, all the way down to...

Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek

June 9, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.

Amazon.com will soon launch a program to experiment with a 30-hour workweek for select employees. The program will have a few technical teams made up entirely of part-time workers. These...

Are performance-monitoring wearables an affront to workers’ rights?

May 23, 2019 at 2:04 p.m.

At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods. "Pickers" that put together orders at Amazon.com warehouses wear GPS tags designed to guide them...

Apple wants to kill a bill that could make it easier for you to fix your iPhone

June 10, 2018 at 11:18 a.m.

When Jessa Jones found out her kids had submerged her iPhone in her toilet, causing a clog, she thought her phone was a lost cause. It powered on but didn't...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

How a ‘Walking Dead’ spoiler website became an AMC target

June 10, 2018 at 11:56 a.m.

Fans of a spoiler website centered around TV series "The Walking Dead" were met with shocking news this week via Facebook post. The website, which crowd sources eerily accurate predictions...

Marijuana buds marketed by rapper Snoop Dogg on display in a dispensary south of downtown Denver.

Microsoft becomes first big tech company to get into legal weed industry

May 23, 2019 at 2:02 p.m.

America's burgeoning weed industry just seems to be climbing higher. Tech giant Microsoft announced Thursday it is partnering with a cannabis industry-focused software company called Kind Financial. The company provides...

Tech giant Samsung is seeing success in a new sector: pharmaceuticals.

Samsung’s big play for pharmaceuticals is paying off

June 11, 2018 at 10:17 p.m.

Smartphones and tablets aside, tech giant Samsung has found success in a side business: pharmaceuticals. The company recently announced that its arthritis drug is one step closer to Food and...

This landlord said ‘like’ me on Facebook or get evicted

June 10, 2018 at 12:37 p.m.

How far will a business go for a Facebook like? Tenants in a Salt Lake City apartment building found a notice taped to their doors last week instructing them to...

Are we losing our way the more we use Google Maps?

June 12, 2018 at 2:02 a.m.

A Google Maps error has been sending tourists seeking "Mt. Rushmore, SD" to the wrong location for nearly five years now. Storm Mountain Center, a retreat center located some 13...

How Marvel Studios used ‘Captain America: Civil War’ to save Spider-Man

June 11, 2018 at 3:19 a.m.

Fan anticipation has been rewarded. Living up to expectation, Spider-Man has made his first official Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance, however briefly, in the new trailer for "Captain America: Civil War."...

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