Information Technology
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Are 'WiFi allergies' a real thing?
Sep 04, 2015 11:00 pm - A quick guide to electromagnetic hypersensitivity
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Here's what we expect from Apple's next iPhone
Sep 04, 2015 11:00 pm - With Apple's announced media event coming next Wednesday, speculation and fervor around the company's next products is kicking into high gear. And we're pretty sure we'r...
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3 new smartwatches head to wrists
Sep 04, 2015 11:00 pm - LG, Samsung and Sony all showed off new smartwatches, taking their own approaches to the nascent category. LG went for full luxury, announcing that its new $1,200 Urbane...
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Stevenson High report cards going digitalSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - Paper report cards are joining chalkboards, slide rules and inkwells as educational relics at Stevenson High School. Starting this fall, students at the Lincolnshire sch...
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Sprint to add 750 more jobs in Chicago areaSep 01, 2015 1:00 am - Sprint said today that it will add another 750 new jobs in the Chicago area and invest nearly $150 million to upgrade its network here by late 2016. The wireless com...
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Amazon's 401(k) plan is pretty brutal, too
Aug 30, 2015 7:30 am - To judge by Amazon's 401(k) plan, the giant online retailer doesn't have much in common with its more benevolent Silicon Valley peers. The workplace culture now under sc...
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A growing push to document surgeries with cameras in operating rooms
Aug 29, 2015 11:00 pm - Chris Nowakoski's wife died in Wisconsin during what should have been a routine procedure on her pacemaker. Danny Long's wife in North Carolina suffered catastrophic neu...
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Inside the high-stakes quest to design a computer program that 'gets' sarcasm online
Aug 29, 2015 7:35 am - Sarcasm on the Internet, the old Web adage goes, is kind of like winking on the phone. It's pointless. It's invisible. It's almost always misunderstood. And for linguist...
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YouTube's video-game streaming challengeAug 29, 2015 7:34 am - YouTube stepped into the world of game-streaming Wednesday with the official launch of YouTube Gaming - its answer to Amazon's popular Twitch. The new section of YouTube...
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Review: Facetune allows users to remove imperfections, reshape their features
Aug 29, 2015 7:33 am - The social media arms race is ever-escalating. First you had to post about what you were doing (Finally visiting the Grand Canyon!). Then you had to include a picture fr...