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  • A best friend, nurse, and caregiver all in one—meet 'Mabu'

    Catalia Health has created a robot that acts as a healthcare companion.’Mabu’ engages in daily conversation that’s tailored to your personality and treatment needs, and sends responses to your healthcare provider. It reminds you when to take you medicine, and follows up with your progress. It also tracks faces so that it can make eye …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Friends don't let friends go apple picking

    Fall: that time of year when all of your friends drag you our of your warm apartment and into the wild to gather up one of the crappiest fruits in the game. For fun. Sometime in the last two decades, apple-picking became a seasonal pilgrimage for urban millennials seeking to get in touch with “rural …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • These phone chargers will eliminate your low battery anxiety

    Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. For everything smartphones can do these days, they sure don’t have a lot of battery power to do it. Fortunately, there’s ZeroLemon, a team of self-proclaimed smartphone enthusiasts who take their company’s name quite literally by designing smartphone …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Why startup coders need to know Ruby on Rails

    Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. If you’re interested in gorgeous open offices, friendly dogs roaming around, and gluten-free, locally-sourced snacks loaded in your company fridge, we can’t blame you — startups are pretty awesome places, even beyond the sweet work perks. SEE ALSO: …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • 'Looking for Alaska' is John Green's first and best novel

    When John Green’s sixth novel Turtles All The Way Down releases on Oct. 10, it will be the most anticipated young adult book release of the year. Things look starkly different today for Green than they did in 2012, when he published The Fault in Our Stars and it went on to become not only …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Why teenage boys don't want to call themselves feminists

    Identifying as a feminist is, for many of us, synonymous with believing in gender equality. But, for teenage boys in the UK, it’s not quite so straightforward.  British teenage boys don’t want to refer to themselves as feminists, even though they believe in gender equality. Their reasons for distancing themselves from the word are far-reaching …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Now that Amazon's a thing, malls have to get creative to survive

    The suburban shopping mall as we know it is dying. Department stores are boarding up, classic mall staples like J. Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch are on death’s door, and Americans are increasingly turning to Amazon for their shopping sprees. But in some cases, a new form of commercial center is taking shape to fill …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Google got permission to float its internet-beaming balloons over Puerto Rico

    The FCC has given Google permission to deploy its Project Loon balloons over Puerto Rico.  Previously, the helium balloons were able to provide LTE coverage to Peru after extreme flooding. But in that case, Google had already partnered with a telecom provider on the ground, which it depended on to beam the signal to the …

    October 7, 2017 | by Raheel
  • Worker finds creepy secret room while renovating a home

    “There was a very grim of feeling about the place.” An HVAC worker doing some renovations on a home discovered a secret room in the attic of a garage.  The clip, which was originally recorded last month, shows a man who claims he was sent to a home in Plant City, Florida to swap out …

    October 6, 2017 | by Raheel