Binge-watching a series is becoming a common way for people to consume TV. According to a Morning Consult/Hollywood reporter poll, young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 were more likely to change their social and personal habits to accommodate a show that they are diving into. About three-quarters of young adults reported pulling all night-ers to find out what happens to their favorite cha...

The Danish company is breaking its traditional mold with the new Lego Forma line, a set designed to empower your creativity and mental wellbeing.Lego is one of the most popular brands in the world, known and loved by children and nostalgic adults alike. But few grown-ups buy Lego for themselves. The Danish company wants to change that with a new type of construction toy that is half Lego, half...

The Danish company is breMy Skin Track UV is currently available at US Apple stores, and on the company's retail website.While we all appreciate the importance of limiting our exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays, actually keeping track of the amount can be difficult. L'Oréal's new My Skin Track UV is designed to help. It's described as "the first battery-free wearable electronic to measure...

Digital ad revenues could exceed $100 billion for first time in 2018. Growth continues, driven by mobile. Social and video see double-digit, if flattening, growth.Overall, U.S. digital ad revenues grew by 23.1 percent o $49.5 billion in the first half of 2018, adding more than $9 billion compared to the first half of 2017. That put digital on track to exceed $100 billion in annual ad revenues f...

Beating out a fascinating list of other entries, the O-Wind Turbine has taken out the UK£30,000 (US$39,000) first prize in this year's James Dyson Awards. This crooked, vented spherical device is designed to hang from skyscraper balconies and generate electricity in the chaotic wind conditions of a high-rise metropolis.Traditional wind generators are very efficient, but only when they're point...

In 2003, Craig Nevill-Manning, a computer scientist at Google, wanted to set up an engineering outpost in New York. Google’s top leaders were skeptical, but they told him that he could go ahead if he could find 15 “Google-worthy” software developers in the city.“The attitude was that pretty much all the good software engineers were in Silicon Valley,” Mr. Nevill-Manning recalled. “It seem...

In the Electriq-Global system, liquid fuel reacts with a catalyst to release hydrogen from water. The spent fuel can be replenished for re-use.Could cars someday run on water, not oil? Australian-Israeli startup Electriq-Global is giving a wet thumbs-up to a new fuel technology that extracts hydrogen from water and turns that hydrogen into electricity to power the vehicle.ue to Electric-Global;...

Since brands started committing to the anti-straw movement, the eco-friendly initiative has gone even further, with the EU parliament voting to ban single-use plastics, including straws and other cutlery, and a societal shift toward eliminating single-use cups, too. For consumers who like using straws, there’s no reason to fear—alternatives to plastic are popping up as a greener alternative....

That could free people to pursue more interesting careers.A WAVE of automation anxiety has hit the West. Just try typing “Will machines…” into Google. An algorithm offers to complete the sentence with differing degrees of disquiet: “...take my job?”; “...take all jobs?”; “...replace humans?”; “...take over the world?” Job-grabbing robots are no longer science fiction. In 2013 Carl Be...