The little-known Cajun card game called bourre gained a certain level of notoriety among sports fans after it led to a pair of high-profile altercations between NBA players in 2010 and 2011. First, star guard Gilbert Arenas nearly lost his career after wielding an unlicensed handgun in the team locker room following a bourre-related gambling […]
LAS VEGAS — LeVar Burton is no stranger to CES. Although he’s best known for his work in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roots and Reading Rainbow, the actor, director and educator is also a huge tech fan. We caught up with Burton at the 2014 International CES and talked about the newest version of […]
Quick, look at your smartphone and count how many of your apps are health-related. A new survey on Mobile Health from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds 19% of smartphone users have at least one health app downloaded onto their device. Perhaps you use a fitness app like MyFitnessPal or a calorie counter […]
This is maybe the most ridiculous Dear Betch we've ever received, so we decided to insert comments directly into the letter. Enjoy! Dear Betch, In light of your post about “almost boyfriends” and girls that accept them, I had to share a story from this weekend. Some girls will stand up for themselves, and this […]
A new health-tracking product called larklife wants to be the everyperson’s fitness monitor. The company’s CEO and founder Julia Hu said she sees a flaw with devices that use social competition to motivate people. “The problem is that that type of motivation is actually incredibly demotivating to the 95 percent of us who are not […]