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How to train like an Olympian

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It’s wearable tech-olympianhard not to assess your own physical state as you watch the athletic feats in Sochi from your couch. And while few of us will ever get to a state of fitness close to what we’re watching on our TVs, technology is making it easier for people to push their fitness efforts further.

Connected wearable technology—such as Google’s Glass or Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch—is still largely a niche product category today, but in the world of exercise, it’s a bona fide movement. There are dozens of devices designed to help people track and improve their workout routines, with more coming every day.

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10 companies that let you bring your dog to work

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It’s dogs at worka dog-eat-dog world in most corporations. And it helps to have a best friend nearby.

Bringing your pet to work is still a fairly rare perk at most companies, but there are definitely benefits to doing so. A study in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management found that people who bring their dogs into the workplace are less stressed, and that sense of job satisfaction extends to people who come into contact with the pet.

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Nintendo hints at mystery device to turn around its fortunes

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Will Nintendoan as yet unrevealed mystery device be the key to Nintendo turning around its sinking fortunes?

After saying in January that it would report its third consecutive annual operating loss, the company surprised analysts and investors by disclosing that it plans to focus on nonwearable health monitors as part of a new 10-year strategy.

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Adult stars taking health matters into their own hands

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As Chanel Prestonan industry, adult entertainment is adept at circling the wagons.

Historically, any porn-related health-care crisis has performers, studios, agents and trade organizations reading from the same script: expressing sadness that someone has contracted an illness but quickly following up with a rundown of the industry’s safety protocols and a notation that the condition was almost certainly contracted off the set.

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Can wearable tech boost business productivity?

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You wearable techcouldn’t walk more than 20 feet at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas without running into some new form of wearable technology. And if the Consumer Electronics Association is right, the same will be true of the streets in your town before long.

Consumer interest in buying wearable devices in 2014 has quadrupled from 2012, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The majority of that interest revolves around fitness devices.

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How do porn stars prepare for retirement?

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Porn porn star retirementis an industry where retirement can come without warning.

Big-name performers sometimes choose to quit at the height of their fame, while others find the demand for their services has dwindled, as fickle fans move on to the next sensation. Many careers last less than three months, and those who stay in for more than five or six years are considered veterans.

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Business lessons from rapper 50 Cent’s playbook

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Curtis 50 CentJackson III wears a lot of hats. He’s a musician. He’s an actor. He’s the owner of G-Unit Clothing, owner and CEO of SMS Audio and founder of SK Energy.

But ask him what he considers to be his job and he doesn’t list any of these. Instead, the serial entrepreneur sees himself as the CEO of the 50 Cent brand. In that alternate universe, Jackson, better known by his music nom de plum, says he sees all of his ventures—both past and present—as revolving around his alter ego.

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