Author: Rebecca Greenfield

The New Shazam Is a Little Like Bugging Your House for Advertisers

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Shazam, the song-identifying app whose logo keeps making its way onto TVs for second-screen expansion, has expanded its smart-listening deeper into your life with a new automatic tagging feature that basically turns your iPhone or iPad into a personal little wiretap.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 13, 2011

Creepy Men Who Flirt at Work Hate Their Lives

Researchers find a reason men spend their time at work prowling around the office

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 12, 2011

No, Really: You Don't Need to Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day

Again, an expert speaks out against this so-called rule

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 12, 2011

Netflix's New Pricing Plan Will Cost You

Now online streaming and mailed DVDs are billed separately

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 12, 2011

How Did the Stanford Prison Experiment Get Out of Hand?

Forty years later, participants describe what they were thinking

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 12, 2011

Father and Son at First and Last Shuttle Launches

Chris and Kenneth Bray's Young Me/Now Me meme entry took 30 years to complete

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 12, 2011

Google+ Hits 10 Million Users: Should Facebook Freak Out?

The social media site's growth presents a real threat to its main competitor

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 11, 2011

Of Boycotts and Democracy in Israel

A new law forbids Israeli citizens from boycotting West Bank settlements

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 11, 2011

Spatwatch

TOMS Wearers vs. Right Wing Christian Missionaries

Progressive shoe wearers don't like the company's alignment with Focus on the Family

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 11, 2011

Study: Superbug Gonorrhea Strain Has No Known Cure

You might not die, but your reproductive ability might be permanently trashed

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By Elspeth Reeve and Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 11, 2011

Debt Talks Stall as Boehner Struggles to Control GOP

Speaker of the House caved to his more conservative second-in-command

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