I prefer watching TV shows and movies with the captions turned on. So do 63% of Americans under 30. But each streaming app has a slightly different way of turning on captions, which is confusing. There is literally nothing else going on in the world more terrible than this, I’m pretty sure. I can’t remember…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. The language-learning app Duolingo announced on Feb 11 that its make-believe mascot, Duo the Owl, mysteriously died; and the internet has been trying to figure it out. That day, a Duolingo spokesperson said in…
Adults who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be living shorter lives than they should, finds a world-first study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, analyzed anonymized primary care data from 30,029 adults across the UK with diagnosed ADHD. They then compared this group…
California’s free earthquake early warning app is now available for Mac computers and Chromebooks — a major expansion of access for the warning system, which has been available for years on cellphones. The MyShake app, developed by UC Berkeley, is one of the most popular ways to receive earthquake early warnings generated by the U.S….
A project manager in China has sparked online outrage by calling on employees to prioritise work over family and telling them to focus on the job and “if someone dies at home, let them rot”. The remarks were revealed in an online group chat which showed the manager, surnamed Pu, from Mianyang, Sichuan province in…
Let me tell you a tale of foreign languages. A tale of awful public school instruction and half-assed attempts at learning. My freshman year of high school, I was taught Mexican Spanish by a white lady from Chicago who once spent a year in college studying in Mexico. The next year, Peruvian Spanish by a…