MANILA, Philippines — While hair is an intimate part of ourselves, we often take it for granted. Only when we go through a really bad hair day do we realize just how important it is to our lives. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brin is a Toronto-based contributor who covers physical retail. In the dynamic realm of beauty and hair care, Madison Reed stands ...

Occasionally, we get to catch a glimpse of the hidden tests that ensure our technology-infused world runs smoothly: color bars on TV or blocks of “lorem ipsum” gibberish text. There’s a fascinating ...

In last month's column, we introduced color-bar signals and took a look inside matrixed color-bar signals. This month concludes the two-part series on color bars with a look inside encoded color-bar ...

You get to a certain age, and if you’re remotely vain (and let’s face it, you are), you need to have your hair colored fairly frequently. You’re hardly alone. Roughly 75 percent of women in the United ...

Color bars--the universal television signal test pattern and audio tone sent to keep cameras, monitors and equipment in synchronization today are a social media memorial to the reporter and ...

I read your October article entitled “Digitizing audio,” and have a question on the SNR formula for digital audio. We have two different audio levels (one very ...

Tokyo Jihen's first five albums have titles relating to types of television programming, "Sports" or "Variety" or "Adult." The Shiina-Ringo-led group's sixth album, though, is titled "Color Bars," ...