Apple is increasingly concerned about your health. The company, after all, believes the Apple Watch is already buzzing you out of your lazy stupor. CEO Tim Cook says that “sitting is the new cancer” and that his products can be a solution. Apple may be heading even further into the medical field. A patent application …

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The narwhals are not baconing at all: Reddit is down. The popular social forum went down Thursday for “emergency maintenance.” In a status update just before 5 p.m. PT, Reddit said it was bringing the site back slowly. The so-called front page of the internet went down at 3:26 p.m. PT, said Reddit, and was replaced with the maintenance message …

Now playing: Watch this: The tech that determines who wins the gold 2:08 Timing is everything. Ask US Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who was trailing by six tenths of a second at the halfway mark of the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat women’s 200-meter freestyle finals at the Rio Games on Tuesday night. By the heart-pounding final turn, she had not only cut …

Microsoft is totally trying to draw us all into its tablets-with-pens (aka Surface Pro 4) universe with Windows Ink…and it’s totally working on me, because Windows Ink integration is cool. I know, I know. The Windows Ink Workspace (a taskbar hub for dedicated pen-friendly apps like Sketchbook) wasn’t terribly exciting when we first took a look at it, and it …

No, it doesn’t fly. It can barely walk. But that doesn’t dilute the massive geek cred that Vimal Govin Manikandan just earned — by building a real-life Iron Man suit using exoskeleton technology. As the Indian engineering student describes in his award-winning paper (PDF), his team developed a novel way to control a walking robot suit. But then, he went …

Being the only one at the Panda Express table who doesn’t know how to use chopsticks will soon be a thing of the past. The fast-food chain will offer a chopsticks-fork combination called a “chork,” food news site Eater reports, though it doesn’t say when. Panda Express did not immediately respond to a request for comment — or send us …

Now playing: Watch this: How to use Google Maps hands-free 1:06 If you use Google Maps on your phone, a lot has changed recently — especially so over the last few weeks. There are lots of new features that are easy to miss and make navigating a lot more efficient, like these keyboard shortcuts. Here are 14 tips and tricks …

Let’s face it: Few of us have the well-muscled bodies of an Olympic athlete. Just watching the swimmers walk around is like an abdominal anatomy lesson. But a fun web tool from the BBC lets you see whose body shape most resembles your own. The Body Match quiz asks for your height, weight and birthdate. (Americans: If you’re using our …

Whether you like traditional Oreo cookies, or you prefer fancier flavors like pumpkin spice or birthday cake, there’s a variety of Oreos for everyone. This week, Nabisco announced the newest Oreo flavor, and it replaces the usual creme filling with bright red Swedish Fish gummy candy. “We know that consumers enjoy variety when it comes to snacking so we create …

Athletes at the Rio Olympics have taken swipes at competitors from other countries. That’s not the only swiping going on. The 11,000-plus athletes participating in the 2016 Olympic Games are giving Tinder’s Brazil business a big boost, according to statistics provided by the dating app. Matches in the Olympic Village, where the athletes stay during the quadrennial event, rose by …

Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat removes racially insensitive filter 1:20 Snapchat briefly introduced a lens it claimed was inspired by anime. However, a lot of people noticed that the resulting image looked kind of really, really racist. This is Snapchat’s second race-based controversy just this year. Back in April, the company introduced a Bob Marley lens that darkened the skin …

Tired of paying a small fortune every month for cable TV and Internet? Of course you are. Everybody is. The rates are ridiculous. Enter BillFixers, a service that promises to negotiate those rates on your behalf. I took it for a test-drive last week and was pretty surprised by the outcome. How it works I pay around $135 per month …

Now playing: Watch this: The Samsung Galaxy S7 Active failed our pool test 3:27 UPDATE: Since this story originally posted, we tested a fresh Samsung Galaxy Active, S7 and S7 Edge that Samsung gave us after fixing a flaw that caused some of the water-resistant phones to drown in water. All three phones survived the pool, which puts Samsung’s water-resistant …

Now playing: Watch this: How vinyl records are made 1:50 I fell in love with music at a very young age. I can remember sitting in my parents’ living room, listening to the crackle and pop that accompanied each new song, only to be replaced with a thumping drum intro or a sick guitar lick that seemed to leap from …