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If you’re spending each night sleeping with your phone, stop. But why?, you ask. You two aren’t hurting anyone, you say. And that’s where you’re wrong. For starters, your screen gives off blue light that can keep your brain awake and affect the quality of your sleep. Tablets and computers give off that light too, but you’re more likely to …

Thanks to the research of Nettie Stevens, we know that males are responsible for determining the sex of their children. To highlight her contributions to our understanding of chromosomes, Google launched a doodle to mark her 155th birthday on Thursday. Nettie Stevens died of breast cancer at the age of 50. Wikipedia Born in 1861, Stevens grew up in a …

Now playing: Watch this: Get started with Snapchat Memories 1:35 Snapchat, the messaging app made popular for its disappearing photos, is now documenting history. The social network on Wednesday unveiled a new feature called Memories, which lets users save content in a sharable way, without having to resort to saving individual images in their phone’s camera roll. Memories are sharable …

Samsung Electronics expects its operating profit for the second quarter to beat expectations, as strong sales of its Galaxy S7 continue to resuscitate the company’s mobile unit. The Korean Electronics giant expects to report an operating profit of 8.1 trillion won ($6.9 billion) for the three months ending June 30, a 17 percent increase from the year-ago period, according to …

Kim Dotcom is teasing a new cloud storage service. Despite being embroiled in legal troubles from his earlier file-sharing site Megaupload, Dotcom says he has plans for a new service that will be “much better”. Living in New Zealand, the controversial Dotcom continues to fight extradition to the US where he faces charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and assorted …

The new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 are the graphics cards to buy for a futureproof virtual-reality PC. Their price, performance, and some special new VR-specific rendering techniques set them ahead of the pack. But if you buy one today, you may have some trouble connecting it to an HTC Vive virtual-reality headset. Don’t get me wrong: the GTX …

If the latest iPhone 7 rumors seem too good to be true, it’s only because we’ve been wishing and hoping and praying for them for so long. An alleged slide from an alleged presentation allegedly in Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone manufacturing partner in China, shows specs for wireless charging and an IP68 rating for resistance to water and dust, according to …

People collect a lot of stuff: coins, stamps, Star Wars figures — you name it. And for those numismatists and philatelists of the world, Microsoft has a new app for archiving their passions and sharing them with the world: Thinga.Me. Screenshot by Jacob Krol/CNET Yes, you can already take photos of your trophy shelf and post that on Facebook, Twitter …

You’ll never be able to read every story out there, but there’s a good chance you’ve already read every story type. Researchers at the Computational Story Lab at Burlington’s University of Vermont data-mined through 1,700 popular fiction stories and determined that they all follow one of six emotional arc types. They are as follows: A rags-to-riches, steadily rising emotional arc, …