Smarthome Reached a Plateau

The Smarthome Industry Has Reached a Plateau. Here’s What’s Holding It Back

by Craig Lloyd 

There’s a problem with the smarthome industry—multiple problems, actually. And after experiencing a huge boom over the last few years, smarthome as a whole has reached a plateau of sorts.

ET for Your Kids

Five Tips and Tricks to Set Up In-Car Entertainment for Your Kids

Jennifer Allen | @jenjeahaly

Are we nearly there yet? How many times do you hear this on a road trip with the kids? Too often, right? In-car entertainment goes a long way to keeping your kids (and you) happy on long journeys, but there’s a lot to take in. We’ve come up with some valuable tips and tricks on exactly how to keep the kids entertained, and your sanity intact, while you travel.

When We Eat

When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health

A growing body of research suggests that our bodies function optimally when we align our eating patterns with our circadian rhythms.

CreditEvan Cohen

By Anahad O’Connor

Nutrition scientists have long debated the best diet for optimal health. But now some experts believe that it’s not just what we eat that’s critical for good health, but when we eat it.

Store Up Treasure

How Can You Store Up Treasure in Heaven?

How Can You Store Up Treasure in Heaven?
By Rick Warren

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21 NIV).

Look What I Did!

Look What I Did!
by Laura MacCorkle

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10, NIV

“So . . . have we talked about me, yet?”

Several years ago, my good friend Jeremy and I would always kid each other with that question during our conversations. It was said after one of us realized we were talking way too much about ourselves, about our accomplishments or about anything that we wanted the other to know so he or she could give up some props and praise.

The God Who Sees Me

The God Who Sees Me

By Touching Lives

“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:16

Throughout Scripture, God is called by various names. People in the Bible gave some of these names to Him, while others are names that He first called Himself. Each name describes a part of His character. A woman named Hagar first used one of these names. When God met her in her distress, she said, “You are the God who sees me…I have now seen the One who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). This phrase, “The God Who Sees Me,” is translated “El Roi” in Hebrew.

Fri Devotional

Daily Devotional 

from Touching Lives with Dr. James Merritt:

“Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.” Proverbs 28:5

“Social justice” is a catchphrase that is heard throughout not only schools and business, but also in churches in our culture. Indeed, when we talk about racism, abortion, poverty, immigration, and the environment—these are all social justice issues. And Proverbs has an interesting take on this idea of justice - that only those who follow God know what true justice is.

Blood Buck Moon

A Blood Buck Moon and Mars Will Make the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century Even More Epic

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JAMIE CARTER 

The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century happens on July 27, but North America will miss it. Thursday night's full moon – known as the buck moon – will pass right through the center of the Earth's dark shadow in space, just as it did during January’s super blue blood moon eclipse. As it does so, the only light that reaches its surface will be sunlight that has traveled through the Earth’s atmosphere. That will turn the surface of the moon into an orange, copper red color for one hour and 43 minutes.

Fix Samsung Phone’s Annoyances

How to Fix All Your Samsung Phone’s Annoyances

by Cameron Summerson 

Samsung is the biggest manufacturer of Android phones in the world, but that doesn’t mean these handsets are perfect out of the box. In fact, most of these phones have several annoyances initially—here’s how to fix many of these.

Sitting in Traffic

Here’s How Much Sitting in Traffic Is Costing You

Driving in some U.S. cities can cost serious time and money.

Addicted to the Game

Labeling People Video Game 'Addicts' Could Be a Massive Mistake

If the cure looks anything like "solutions" to drug addiction, this could get ugly.

Maia Szalavitz

Image by Lia Kantrowitz

Are video games really addictive? The World Health Organization added "gaming disorder" to its dictionary of maladies, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which published its 11th edition last month. But while a similar diagnosis is being considered in the United States, the condition has yet to be officially included in America’s psychiatric disorder catalog, now DSM-5. And if the experience of Asian countries that have embraced the diagnosis is anything to go by, the so-called cure could be much worse than the disease.

Trader Joe's Employees

Trader Joe's Employees Share 8 Annoying Things They Wish Shoppers Would Stop Doing

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ÁINE CAIN / BUSINESSINSIDER.COM 
This story originally appeared on BusinessInsider.com.

Trader Joe's earns pretty high marks in terms of employee satisfaction.

This year, Glassdoor named the grocery chain with a cult-like following as one of the best places to work in the US. Trader Joe's also earned that distinction in 2017, 2013, 2012, and 2011.

Hyperloop Pod Competition

SpaceX hyperloop pod competition winner breaks speed record

Kirsten Korosec@kirstenkorosec

WARR Hyperloop has done it again. The engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won SpaceX’s hyperloop pod competition on Sunday for the third time.

This year, WARR Hyperloop pulled off the win when their self-propelled pod reached a top speed of more than 290 miles per hour, a new record for the competition. The pod traveled 50% faster than WARR Hyperloop’s winning entry in the previous SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition held in August 2017. In the first competition, held in January 2017, WARR’s winning pod traveled just 58 mph. That’s progress.

Entertainment News

Deadwood movie finally greenlit, HBO confirms at last

JAMES HIBBERD 

Deadwood

The Deadwood movie is expected to start shooting this fall.

Rich get Richer

The Rich People in Your City Have Even More Money Than You Think

A fresh report shows in terrifying detail how we're living in a "new Gilded age."

Allie Conti

Image by Lia Kantrowitz

The parallels have long been obvious to anyone paying attention. It's 2018, and young people with tens of thousands in debt are flocking to cities they can't afford because it feels impossible to launch their adult lives elsewhere.