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It doesn't quite read your mind, but the experimental Brainput device tracks brain activity to recognize when users are multitasking to offload work. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

That pigeons are better at multitasking than humans, as a recent study suggests, inspires little confidence that Homo Sapiens are really meant to do two or more things at once: Yet, in our ...

I wake up each day with manic dread about how I'm going to fill the hours, what I'm going to do that I can label as "productive," some skill I can hone, some task I can accomplish, some small dollar ...

We’d like to think that we can multitask — respond to emails, text messages, toggle between multiple tabs on a browser, and scroll through social media feeds, whilst working on important tasks — but, ...

Lauren Irwin-Szostak is the President and CEO of Business Processes Redefined, LLC and has over 30 years in the collections industry. In the fast-paced world of business, multitasking is a skill that ...

Research shows that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time, the equivalent of dropping 10 IQ points from our cognitive ...

I love strange scientific studies. The fascination started with a research paper from the University of Cambridge in which scientists discovered that howler monkeys with smaller testes have larger ...

As I prepare lazily for my gym workout, I can't help but to notice a fair percentage of this cardio killing population that, while tackling their caloric goals, are engrossed in their handheld ...

Multitasking is something we all do. You may even be doing it now. Since the word first emerged in the 1960s, it has gradually rose to prominence, especially as the computer age gave us ever more ...

You're reheating your coffee for the third time, half-listening to a conference call and taking inventory of your fridge to see what you can throw together for dinner. If this sounds familiar, you're ...