Apple pitched the Apple Watch not only as a companion for your phone, but as a way to track your personal health stats throughout the day. A smartwatch might be fine for personal step counting and heart rate analysis, but it’s hard to get approval from regulators to sell a …

Photo: Courtesy of the American Council on Exercise On paper, the squat is as basic as it gets: You go down and then stand back up. But this booty-burning exercise is actually pretty complex. Squats require you to recruit more than just your glutes to get low, especially when you …

A study published this week in the journal Palaeontology has revealed new details about feathers of the chicken-sized, feathered, bird-like dinosaur Anchiornis. A new depiction of Anchiornis and its contour feather. Image credit: Rebecca Gelernter. Anchiornis lived in what is now northeastern China during the Jurassic period, about 160 million …

An international team of scientists from Brazil and the United Kingdom has analyzed mouth-licking behavior of domestic dogs, and found that this behavior is not simply a response to food or uncertainty, but appears to be used as a signal to try to communicate with humans in response to visual …

According to a new study from the Universities of Bath and Nottingham, UK, regularly eating breakfast affects fat cells by decreasing the activity of genes involved in fat metabolism and increasing how much sugar they take up — this may lower diabetes and cardiovascular risk. The researchers also found that …

The Yeti, a mysterious ‘hominid’-like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia, looms large in the mythology of Nepal and Tibet. Now, a new DNA study of purported Yeti samples is providing insight into the origins of this legend. A still frame from the Patterson-Gimlin film, a famous …

A television station employee was shot dead on Friday in the northwestern city of Peshawar as violent crowds filled the streets of several cities on a day of government-sanctioned protests against an anti-Islam film made in the United States. The unrest came as governments and Western institutions in many parts …

AMP (accelerated mobile pages) is designed to deliver publishers’ pages quickly on mobile devices, but the stripped-down format lacks functionality in some areas. This week, the German-Swiss online payment infrastructure provider LaterPay is releasing what it says is the first AMP-enabled paywall and subscription platform, called AMP Access. While there …

Google has added an audiobook option to its book search feature. Now, if you search for a specific book title, the Google book search feature includes an “Audiobook” button under the “Get Book” tab that will display different audiobook platforms offering the title. The book search update was announced via …

Companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Amazon and LinkedIn build great consumer relationships. They grow their businesses around serving customers and fully understanding them through data. Traditionally, companies have tried to understand and manage customer relationships in two separate types of systems: Channel-centric tools like email services, ads, web analytics, mobile apps …