So “Low Battery Anxiety” Is A Real Thing, And It’s Making Us Do The Absolute Most

…Electronics company LG recently did a survey while promoting a new battery. They surveyed thousands of Americans and found that nine out of 10 people, that’s 90 percent, end up in a state of panic when they see that they have a low phone battery. Specifically, when their phone alerts them that they’re below 20 percent. According to LG, the ways smartphone users said they try to deal with such struggles, as well as the consequences (which they deemed “symptoms” of low battery anxiety), include asking a stranger to bum their charger off of them (39 percent of people); grabbing a drink or buying some sort of item at a bar or restaurant just to use an outlet (22 percent of people); so-called “borrowing” of someone’s charger that they see available (35 percent of people); skipping the gym to go home to charge a dying phone (33 percent), and then arguing with a significant other over the fact that they missed a bevvy of text messages (23 percent of people)…

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Become A Millionaire One Step At A Time

There are plenty of unusual holidays celebrated throughout the year, but we are taking May 20th as an opportunity to provide some helpful advice of the financial variety. This day is better known as “Be A Millionaire Day” and while not all of us will be able to rake in the dough to push us into the 1 percent, there are small steps that you can take to become more financially stable and successful…

[MadameNoire]

De La Soul Reveals and the Anonymous Nobody Artwork & Tracklist, Presale Available

De La Soul‘s long delayed new album, and the Anonymous Nobody, is one step closer to release. The Long Island trio’s either studio album is now available for presale and the group revealed the project’s artwork and tracklist. The album is 17 tracks deep with a who’s who of guests including Jill Scott, Usher, 2 Chainz and Little Dragon. But, we were sold when we peeped fellow Strong Island representative Roc Marciano on a song called “Property Of Spitkicker.” The album is being tabbed as a “continuous narrative of the group’s philosophy of music creation” and is free of any samples. However, De La spent years creating live music that they then flipped by essentially sampling themselves. Production is credited to De La Soul and Dave West. Interestingly, the legendary Bob Power, as well as Morgan Garcia and De La Soul, mixed the album…

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