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If you're not using your dishwasher efficiently, you're wasting money, energy, and water. Business Insider shares the right ways for you to use the dishwasher. In leaner times, plenty of households boycotted energy-sucking appliances like dishwashers and went back to basics: manual scrubbers, a bottle of detergent, and a lot of elbow grease. But is all that extra effort really helping us save in Read more
While the tech industry continues to grow with new products and start-ups, there's something missing — the ladies. Noticing a serious lack of women in their engineering department and that of expanding companies nationwide, Etsy announced this week the new Etsy Hacker Grants, a scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology, hosted in conjunction with Hacker School in New York Read more
It was the non-April Fools' joke heard around the Internet: Ashton Kutcher has been selected to play Steve Jobs in an indie film called Jobs. Whether or not you agree with the casting, you have to admit: on the surface, there are some striking similarities. Of course, if you don't agree that Kutcher can pull off the legendary tech innovator on screen, here's something to hold on to: the Read more
The full-length trailer for Total Recall hit the Internet yesterday. At first look, the film appears to follow the 1990 sci-fi original fairly closely, with the addition of sleek new technology effects and some sweet flying cars. The film's stars, Colin Farrell taking on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Douglas Quaid, Jessica Biel playing Melina, and Kate Beckinsale as Lori, seem to embody the original Read more
If the promise of more sex more often doesn't get you into online games, maybe this will: gaming could be a great way to meet guys. According to a new study by Online University, the odds of you scoring a date with someone who is committed and honest are higher if you're playing World of Warcraft than if you're trolling through hundreds of "matches" on dating sites. The study shows that online Read more
There are lots of ways to find your geeky love match online, but as they say on The Bachelor, not all online daters are there for the right reasons. According to a new report, online dating fraud rose 150 percent in 2011, making Internet dating sites a hotbed for fraudulent links and phishing scams. With over three percent of interactions being of fraudulent nature — including those Read more
Google recently made headlines for launching Recipe View, a new way to search for and see online recipes. A month in, Food52 founder and New York Times writer Amanda Hesser shares her two cents, commenting that the "misguided" new search is "robotic rather than thoughtful." Hesser goes on to explain how the engine's search algorithm — and its options for the ways in which results are refined Read more
The Internet can help you find your mate, either on a dating site, through your online social network, or by allowing you to offer a $10,000 award to anyone on the web who will introduce you to your future wife. Once you're paired up though, technology seems to make love more complicated — you must consider the realities of flirtexting (yes, that means flirty texting), navigate the awkward Read more
States like NJ pass bills helping sexting kids avoid sex offender status — NBC NY Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez's battle against breast implants — New York Times Florida pushing record number of laws to restrict abortion — Jezebel Courteney Cox opens up about split from David Arquette — PopSugar Hillary Clinton makes historic visit to Egypt — Huffington Post Transgender pastor to Read more
Turn off the TV and put aside your reading list, because the best distraction when you're in a bad mood is music. Scientists have known since the '70s that people use music to regulate emotions, both positive and negative, but little research has been done in the last 20 years. And, of course, since then the way people consume music has been revolutionized. We can now call up any song, anytime Read more
