The GyroGlove controls essential hand tremors using the same technology that stabilizes the International Space Station.Two years ago, a young medical student named Faii Ong was asked to help care for a 103-year old patient who kept losing weight. "No one knew what was going on," Ong told me recently. "No one knew why she was doing so poorly. Did we miss something big, like cancer?"Read Full Story

Most card games ported to the App Store suck. Here's how Exploding Kittens avoided the trap.Imagine a version of Russian Roulette played with a cat that had dynamite up its butt, then add in some Uno for good measure. That's Exploding Kittens in a nutshell, a card game designed by Microsoft's Elan Lee and Shane Small, with art from The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman. When it launched on Kickstarter last year, it became the site's most-funded game ever. Now, it's coming to iPhone, but the App Store version of Exploding Kittens isn't just a port. It's a whole new experience. Straight ports are usually shit.Read Full Story

Emmy Award winner Andrew Jarecki is launching his video app KnowMe today, and we can thank ... Robert Durst?A new video storytelling app launches today—and you have an accused murderer to thank for the inspiration.Read Full Story

His special skills won't fly at your office, but you might still want to hire him.More like 'Curriculum Morte.'Read Full Story

The comedian does a branded Billy On The Street with the same awkward hilarity, just more product placement.Billy Eichner has made a career out of accosting strangers on the sidewalks of New York. What started out as a gag almost a decade ago has evolved into a TV show on Fuse and truTV, having Julianne Moore act on demand in Times Square or asking people if they'd have sex with Paul Rudd for a dollar. Now Eichner is taking to the streets with former NFL star Terrell Owens in a new campaign for Butterfinger.Read Full Story

Multi-ethnic consumers in the U.S. boast a combined buying power of $3.4 trillion—and these women want to find companies to tap that market.As the discussion of deplorable diversity numbers across the tech world continues, it's also important to remember that venture capital dollars, following suit, make their way into the hands of less than 1% of minority or women-led startups.Read Full Story

Don't panic when school is closed. Here's how to minimize the damage and recapture some of the fun.When you're a kid, snow days are awesome. As a working parent, though, that dreaded robo-call or email from the school district can set off a panic. School is delayed or closed. How are you supposed to get your job done and deal with the kids' disrupted schedule?Read Full Story

"Meet the Parents" is Facebook's foray into studying the needs and wants of parents across the globe."If it doesn't change your life, you're doing it wrong." So said one mom, who we'll call Alex, at the beginning of her parenting journey. She now has three—ranging in age from 21 to 13—and maintains that life looks very different than it did before she had kids. But a lot about parenting is different now.Read Full Story

Your mommy guilt might be misplaced: A new book shows that working mothers raise great kids.Juggling work and family obligations makes working mothers feel that they're always dropping the ball somewhere. When you're at work, you're missing time away from your kids. When you're at home, you're missing out on networking events that could advance your career. But a recent book by Pamela Lenehan, My Mother, My Mentor: What Grown Children of Working Mothers Want You to Know, spells out the many benefits children receive from mothers who work outside the home.Read Full Story

The new phone appears to be targeted at specific foreign wireless markets.Those constant rumors about a new 4-inch iPhone just may be true, sources tell Fast Company, and it could be arriving in stores this spring.Read Full Story

Homeownership has become the great American (pipe) dream but Jonathan Tate thinks there's a more inclusive way to build.Sandwiched between a nondescript duplex and industrial warehouse in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, a modern, two-story home stands out from its neighbors thanks to a slender profile, angular roof, and corrugated-metal cladding. With an area of 975 square feet, the structure is diminutive, but this is no flavor-of-the-month tiny house: it's the proof of concept for architect Jonathan Tate and developer Charles Rutledge's Starter Home* program—a model of infill development that turns underused, unbuildable lots into entry-level residences.Read Full Story

Apple and Google rushed to keep the information from going public.Court documents have revealed that Google paid Apple $1 billion dollars in 2014 to be iOS's default search engine, reports Bloomberg. The sum was revealed in court transcripts of a copyright lawsuit that Oracle brought against Google in which it alleges the search giant used its Java software without paying for it to build Android.Read Full Story

Virginia Tech professor Doug Bowman was recently awarded a grant by Microsoft for the HoloLens research project.Out of all the big tech companies—Microsoft, Facebook, Google, just to name a few—Apple is the only one that hasn't publicly announced an interest in virtual or augmented reality technology. All the others listed above are known to be currently working on AR and VR tech.Read Full Story

Raytheon, the giant military contractor, claims the armor could save lives by reducing the military's need for fuel convoys.Raytheon, one of the world's-largest military contractors, says it has developed a new type of vehicle armor that also doubles as a battery.Read Full Story

But both say first large-scale commercial version will be built overseasThe Hyperloop might be the brainchild of billionaire inventor Elon Musk, but if it is to become a reality it will be one of two other companies that first brings the futuristic transportation system to the world, reports the Wall Street Journal.Read Full Story

Are your references selling your best attributes—or selling you out? Here's how to make them more effective for you.You're going for a new job, so you've dusted off your resume, written a great cover letter, and pulled out your list of references. But before you send your prospective new employer to your go-to list of cheerleaders, ask yourself one question: Am I sure my references are helping me?Read Full Story

What happened this week? Here's our quiz for January 22, 2016.Did you follow the news this week? Research says that one of the best ways to solidify new information is to be tested on it. Here's a chance to bolster your knowledge of current events—and earn a special emoji badge. Read Full Story

The electronics giant is hoping to inspire the creation of more and better independent VR content.Samsung today crowned the first set of winners in its ongoing virtual reality content competition.Read Full Story

You will have to pry the word "stock" from my cold, dead hands.Eating food is a critical part of every man's self-care routine, but did you know there are so many other things you can do with food besides put it in your lower facehole? You can read about it, you can talk about it, you can watch people make and/or consume it on TV. You can argue about it, read about other people arguing about it, and watch people argue and/or compete over it on TV! Rumor has it that you can even make food yourself, but this seems unsanitary and probably dangerous. Today, bringing us a sampling of tabs about the wide world of food activities that are not actually eating is Helen Rosner, from the sarcastically named website Eater.Read Full Story

Soon after the New Yorker's Jane Mayer published an exposé, the Kochs assembled a team of operatives to target her, she claims.The Koch brothers, who control the second-largest privately held company in the United States, hired former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir to dig up dirt on journalist Jane Mayer, she claims in a new book.Read Full Story

A Udacity course by Google will teach engineers and data scientists the basics of deep learning, which informs much of Google's tech.Techies who have some background in machine learning may want to tune into Google's new course on deep learning. Available through Udacity—home to a host of open online courses—the class is expected to run about three months, assuming people put in about six hours of work per week.Read Full Story

Many investors are nervous about reports that iPhone 6s sales are softening.Next Tuesday Apple is likely to report solid numbers for its December-ending quarter, but company execs and investors may be anxious over possible weakness in sales of the iPhone.Read Full Story

Anonymity might seem like a reasonable concession to encourage more open dialogue. It's not.It's clear by now that feedback is in high demand. Whether you're a millennial or not, the latest research shows that employees want more regular, continuous input on their performance rather than an annual assessment of how they're doing.Read Full Story

Saying you're considering leaving isn't the same as admitting you're unhappy or have already made up your mind to go."I've accepted a position at another company."Read Full Story