Facebook continues to dominate the social media login market. Nearly two-thirds of people who use social networks to authenticate their identities on web sites and mobile apps use Facebook, according to customer management firm Gigya’s first quarter report.Gigya now puts Facebook’s share at 64%, an increase of three percentage points since the fourth quarter of 2014. It’s a familiar refrain....

A company with deep roots at UW-Madison wants to make blood sampling less painful and more convenient. Tasso Inc. is perfecting a device the size of a pingpong ball that extracts a small sample while held against the skin for two minutes.During this time, a slight vacuum in the device enables a small sample of blood to flow into an attached sample tube, which can be mailed or handed to a lab. U...

From east London, to Brooklyn, to Tokyo and far beyond, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to record stores around the world on April 18 to buy vinyl albums made by their favorite artists.It was the ninth annual Record Store Day, a wildly successful promotion conceived of in 2007 by a group of music shops in the US, which later spread abroad, as a way to keep independent record stores afloa...

So-called native advertising is the shiny new object in digital media. Publishers love selling it, and marketers are increasing their investments in it.According to eMarketer predictions, native ad spending in the U.S. will grow 34% in 2015 to reach $4.3 billion. Publishers from Web startups like Buzzeed to major newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal now publish na...

More than you eat, more than you drink, more than you do anything else in your life, you breathe. It’s the one thing, other than maybe your heartbeat, that continues to happen even when you aren’t thinking about it. But even if you aren’t telling yourself, in your head, “Breathe in, breathe out,” you should definitely be thinking about the air around you! Pollutants in the air are too smal...

A new paper from Disney Research, “A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects-Paper,” penned by Huaishu Peng (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Cornell University), Jen Mankoff (of Carnegie Mellon University), Scott E. Hudson (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University), and James McCann (of Disney Research Pittsburgh), details a whole new kind of 3D printer.Un...

The rising wave of obesity around the world and its health and economic costs cannot be ignored?even in China. This is no longer a “western” problem. Today, 62 percent of the world’s obese people are in developing countries.Global scourgeMore than 2.1 billion people?nearly 30 percent of the global population?are overweight or obese today. That’s nearly two and a half times the number of adu...

Airbus is ready to pack even more economy passengers into its A380 superjumbo with a tight-fitting '11 across' seating option.Forget about the cheap seats being grouped in a 3-4-3 layout: Airbus has squeezed an extra seat into the centre row to create a 3-5-3 configuration. Here's the official Airbus PR pic, showing the middle seat which nobody will want to be stuck in.The photo below ? snapped...

JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon has warned that Silicon Valley is coming. His firm is meeting the challenge head-on investing in many Fin Tech startups in areas ranging from lending tech to robo-advisors.In his annual shareholder letter, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sounded the alarm on a wave of Fin Tech startup competitors coming after traditional banking.While Dimon’s letter implied future partne...