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Loving Our Phones May Come At A Physical Price
For Cassandra Smolcic, the trouble began at her dream internship. Handpicked to spend a summer working on movies at Pixar, the 26-year-old logged marathon hours, and more than a few all-nighters, at...
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The New Fitbit Charge 2 Wants You To Work Out, Not Just Count Steps
BuzzFeed News; Fitbit On the Charge 2, exercise and relaxation aren’t tracked as special, one-off events, but rather, they are as much a part of your routine as steps and sleep. If you’re ready to...
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This Scientist Made A Meatless, Plant-Based Burger That Bleeds
The "blood" is actually heme, a iron-based molecule Impossible Foods derives from soy plants. Jess Misener / BuzzFeed Six years ago, Dr. Pat Brown was a scientist on sabbatical. The Stanford...
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These Parents Don’t Want To Know What’s In Their Baby’s DNA
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Scientists And Doctors Are Freaking Out About A President Trump
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Soda Taxes Pass In Four Cities, Dealing Blow To Big Soda
Spencer Platt / Getty Images Four cities in the United States, including three in the Bay Area, handily approved soda taxes on Tuesday, adding momentum to a growing public health sentiment against...
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Get Used To High Drug Prices As Big Pharma Emerges From Election Stronger...
Phil Walter / Getty Images On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump agreed on at least one thing: the need to control America’s spiralling costs of prescription...
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These Tech Companies Have The Most Generous Fertility Benefits, Poll Says
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Activists Are Fighting To Save The Old Sites Of San Francisco's Gay Bars
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Here's What It Was Like Inside The Deadly Oakland Warehouse Party Fire
Stephen Lam / Reuters OAKLAND — It was a Friday night in Oakland, California, and Laura Hobbs was on her way to a party that sounded too cool to pass up.The 24-year-old policy analyst was hanging out...
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DNA Biohackers Sold A DIY Kit For Glowing Booze And Here’s What Happened
Josiah Zayner, CEO and founder of the Odin. Allyson Laquian / BuzzFeed News “Don’t be too impressed,” said Josiah Zayner as he cracked open the fridge. On the top shelf, next to Silk soy milk cartons,...
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iPhone Apps Could Be A Revolution In Health — If People Use Them
Jacoblund / Getty Images More than a year and a half ago, Apple unveiled a new breed of iPhone apps that would let people participate in scientific studies anytime, anywhere — at least in theory. Now,...
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These Startups Will Pay You For Your DNA
Genos There’s no shortage of companies that you can pay to test your DNA. But now there’s a twist — some companies will pay you for your DNA.Genos, which officially opened its portal today, and...
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People Are Mad That This Stress-Tracking Bracelet Isn't Working
Caeden Sona, a stress-tracking bracelet marketed under the premise that it could calm its wearers, has ended up stressing out customers whose gadgets quickly stopped working or didn’t arrive on...
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BuzzFeed's Favorite Tech Things Of 2016
All the apps, hacks, habits, and products that made our lives a little better in 2016. Here at BuzzFeed Tech, we're trying new stuff constantly. Companies send us products unsolicited; co-workers and...
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Here Are 10 Times Tech Failed In 2016
Gustave Courbet, "A Burial At Ornans" (1849) Via wikiart.org Not every startup or tech product can succeed. And for these businesses, the venture capital finally ran out this year. Or people weren’t...
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Workplaces Are Tracking Their Employees' Sleep
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Here’s How Big Pharma Plans To Clean Up After Martin Shkreli
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Trump's Potential FDA Pick Attended McAfee For President Fundraiser
Judd Weiss / Via facebook.com Before he became one of President-elect Donald Trump’s potential picks for Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Jim O'Neill, an associate of Silicon Valley venture...
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Birth Control Startups Are Offering Deals To Prep For Trump’s America
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, flanked by House Democrats, speaks in support of the Affordable Care Act on January 12. Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images After a blood clot made it unsafe for her...
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