Laptops are so named because they’re designed to sit on your lap — no surprise there. So surely we’re fine to keep doing that, right? Turns out: Not so much. Convenient as it is to slump on the couch with your computer, creating a heat-sink by your scrotum is never...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Just when you thought oversharing on social media would be the downfall of modern society, two studies out of UCLA find a silver lining. It turns out, people’s social media and internet tendencies might help pinpoint and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. The studies, led...
I am, by my own admission, a terrible (but improving!) texter. Receiving a text almost always feels like an imposition to me, and nowhere does text feel like a bigger intrusion than when I’m at work. It doesn’t matter if I’m engaged in a legitimate heads-down jam...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
These days, more often than not, a bouquet of flowers means only one thing: “Sorry, I messed up. (Also I really don’t understand exactly what I messed up but it was clearly something so here are some flowers. We’re good now, right?)” Occasionally, they also mean, “I love...
Remember the myth about how sleeping on top of your textbook or tucking your flashcards underneath your pillow could help you retain the information by osmosis? You know — the one every bad student wished were true but very clearly wasn’t? Well, according to a new study published in Psychological...
Nothing makes the doldrums of the workday pass more quickly than a little excitement, and what’s more exciting than texting sexually explicit hopes and dreams to your significant other? “I can’t wait to **** your **** in a **** and then **** with your *****,” you type,...
I remember a time when my phone was capable of just three things: Calling, texting and costing my parents $50 every time I accidentally logged onto the not-yet-proficient mobile internet. Now, my phone has essentially become my wallet, which in turn has basically become a graveyard for...
Without thinking about it, I put a lot of effort into learning how to text. But in hindsight, maybe I shouldn’t have bothered. Google is hard at work on an AI-based auto-reply system called “Reply” that could eventually roll out to your full suite of chat software:...
You only have to go on a couple of Tinder dates before you discover that people have wildly different ideas about how to appropriately communicate. There was the man who began carrying on a full conversation with himself in our text thread when I didn’t answer quickly...