Technology moves fast, particularly on the software side, as Stack Overflow’s annual survey of developers demonstrates.The popular Q&A site for people who write code released results this week from a poll of more than 25,000 developers, who were queried on everything from their country of origin to their caffeine consumption to the programming languages they use most.Responses to the latte...

Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were “immediately impressed at the ride quality.” Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.Entreprrneurs love to claim they’re “reinventing the wheel.” So...

Higher-earning consumers spend less on housing, food and health care. For many Americans, the rise in food and housing prices is a tough squeeze. That’s because?even in an era with low overall inflation?low-income Americans spend a disproportionate share of their money on food and housing.New data from the Labor Department show the extent of the discrepancy. The bottom 10% of Americans, by inc...

Social media remains one of the paramount digital topics, as leading platforms continue to attract huge audiences and account for an increasingly large share of consumers’ time spent online. To get a sense of how these social networks will fare over the course of this year, it’s worth getting some perspective as to how they stack up against each other in the present.Facebook remains the golia...

How much more water does it take to produce an ounce of bread, than a ounce of juice? The answer is not quite what you might expect.[click to enlarge]This chart is the work of Kyle Kim over at the LA Times, and it breaks down just how much water goes into producing different kinds of common foods. As you can see, meat is (unsurprisingly) the top water siphoner, but even beyond that category the...

The Hue Go can output at up to 300 lumens when plugged in, but cuts it to 40 percent brightness when used unplugged to maximums battery, which gives you a pleasing but dim kind of ambient lighting.Overall, it’s plenty bright for most cases where you’d be using a portable lighting solution anyway, especially given that this isn’t a work light designed for the workshop, for instance. It’s als...

Just as the books US presidents read shape their time in office, so do the titles that CEOs read during their tenure. Some reach for the classics like "The Catcher in the Rye." Others go for the quirky, such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Then there are those CEOs that read books about other CEOs. For more recommendations, check out this visual reading list created by Domo and CEO.c...

Video-based recognition of persons’ heart and breathing rates is no longer new, but the technology has been limited to people with light skin who are well illuminated by external lighting. Researchers at Rice University have developed their own version of the technique, which they call DistancePPG, that is able to compensate for different skin tones, patient movement, and the ambient lighting...

Diet sodas are going back out of style. After four years of outselling Pepsi, Diet Coke is back in the No. 3 slot for top sodas in the U.S., according to the latest industry data, and other sugar-free brands are also dropping quickly.Overall, the number of soda drinkers in the U.S. continues to shrink, as is clear by the steady decline in the volume of soda produced since 2000. According to Gal...