According to SugarDVD, the Netflix of porn, PS4 owners are watching three times as much porn as Xbox One owners. This massive discrepancy isn’t caused by the PS4 outselling the Xbox One, either: The latest figures put the PS4 at 3.4 million units sold, versus 2.4 million for the Xbox One. In short, it really does seem that PS4 owners ...
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Mehta: Jets better not pout, Rex is good, for goodness’ sake
Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News If he is let go, Rex Ryan can walk away from the Jets with his head held high. If this is the end for Rex Ryan, if the best thing to happen to the Jets in a decade gets the pink slip in six days, he should take solace in knowing that this was his ...
Read More »Why do all keyboards look the same? Or: How to design a better keyboard from scratch
Why is a keyboard shaped like a keyboard? Better yet, why are all of the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and some punctuation, arranged in four slightly diagonal rows of keys — and more importantly, why has the layout of the keyboard gone almost unchanged in 100 years? There must be a really good reason, right? Wrong. Typewriter diagram, showing ...
Read More »Better-looking high schoolers get better grades: study
MICHAEL GIBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Do ‘Mean Girls’ get a boost in school? High school students who were rated more attractive than average tended to have better grades than their peers, researchers found. Being hot in high school may be the equivalent of extra credit. High school boys and girls considered more attractive than the bulk of their classmates had higher GPAs ...
Read More »Xbox One review: Better than the PS4 at launch, but its gimmicks will only take it so far
Over the past week, I’ve been playing with the Xbox One, and I have great news: It’s better than the PS4. The console is definitely not prettier or better designed than the PS4, and the Xbox One gamepad is slightly worse than the DualShock 4, but the Xbox One wins in every other way: Launch games, functionality, and overall polish ...
Read More »Nanoparticle-infused speaker could mean better sound in a smaller package
Nanotechnology has contributed to all sorts of important medical and scientific breakthroughs, but when is it going to make speakers sound better? It’s a question we all ask ourselves every hour of every day, of course, but your nanotech speakers are almost ready. A team of researchers from Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a new kind of ...
Read More »Better condom designs awarded $100k by Gates Foundation
Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 11 winners $ 100,000 to carry out their plans for a condom people will want to use. The next generation of condoms may soon roll out, thanks to a boost from Bill Gates. The tech icon’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a contest that challenged innovators to create ...
Read More »Better condom designs awarded $100k by Gates Foundation
Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 11 winners $ 100,000 to carry out their plans for a condom people will want to use. The next generation of condoms may soon roll out, thanks to a boost from Bill Gates. The tech icon’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a contest that challenged innovators to create ...
Read More »Can you build a gaming PC better than the PS4 for $400?
As you probably know by now, the PS4 is essentially a $ 400 PC. It has an x86 PC CPU, a standard PC GPU, and the same kind of RAM that you’d find on a PC graphics card. There are a few custom chips on the PS4′s motherboard, but for the most part it’s just a normal PC with some ...
Read More »‘Look Good Feel Better’ program helps cancer patients
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Volunteer Cecilia Sanjurjo tries a hat on Cristina Ferreira during a ‘Look Good Feel Better’ workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The program offers free makeup and skin care tips for women dealing with the physical and psychological trauma of cancer. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — For cancer patients dealing with the physical and psychological trauma of the disease, even ...
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