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July 6, 2015
Today in Tabs: The Greek Crisis, Unexplained
Reddit, inexplicable.
Ice my wig, it's hot today! pic.twitter.com/zvIoWn3VaG
Amazon Creates Its Own Sales Holiday, "Amazon Prime Day"
Amazon promises July 15 will have more discounts than Black Friday.
Amazon has a new plan to win goodwill with Amazon Prime customers: Massive, one-day discounts. On Wednesday, July 15, Amazon is holding Amazon Prime Day to celebrate the ecommerce site's 20th anniversary.
Microsoft Launches Tossup, A Social Polling App To Use With Your Friends
Tossup is an attempt to get into the casual event planning sphere.
Want to make plans with your friends without the back-and-forth of group texts? Microsoft's latest app Tossup is an event planning service that allows you to survey your friends to simplify group decision-making. The social polling app is the most recent product from the company's Microsoft Garage initiative, which gives employees the opportunity to work on passion projects on the side.
Italian Surveillance Firm Called HackingTeam Gets Hacked
Some might call this poetic justice.
An Italian company that sells sophisticated tools for spying on Internet users to the world's most repressive governments appears to have just been the target of a massive hacker attack. The ironically named HackingTeam, which names three U.S. agencies as clients, was breached by unknown hackers, and 400 gigabytes of leaked data were made public via torrent.
Reddit Users Push For CEO Ellen Pao's Resignation [Updated]
A Change.org petition asking Pao to step down has received more than 180,000 signatures.
Reddit may not have had a cheery, beer-soaked long weekend like the rest of us: On Friday, the online community found itself at the mercy of its own moderators, when almost 300 subreddits, most notably the popular "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) forum, were temporarily shuttered in response to Reddit's dismissal of talent director Victoria Taylor the day prior. The subreddits steadily began to reopen over the weekend, but the protest seemed to spur on support for a Change.org petition calling for Reddit CEO Ellen Pao's resignation.
Google's Ebook Logo Combines The Best Of Print And Digital Brands
How do you brand the digital book of the future? 50% old school, 50% new school.
From a design standpoint, Kindle books aren't radically different than their print counterparts. Letters are rendered in pixels rather than ink, and are somewhat adjustable. But otherwise, a digital a book is the same as an book. So whether it's a platform like Kindle or a more traditional publisher like Penguin, these brands tend to stick with traditional, typography-based wordmarks.
GoPro Unveils Its First All-New Camera In Nine Years
The camera giant is hoping that pro athletes will love using the smaller, lightweight Hero4 Session.
GoPro today announced its first all-new camera since 2006, the lightweight, cube-shaped, waterproof Hero4 Session.
A New Kind Of Wildlife Sanctuary--For Bees
With endless flowers and ponds, the New York Bee Sanctuary wants to create a haven where endangered pollinator species can rejuvenate.
As bee populations continue to drop so alarmingly that pollinators now have their own White House Task Force, a nonprofit in upstate New York is pioneering a new solution: A large-scale sanctuary focused on helping honeybees, wild bees, and butterflies start to recover.
July 3, 2015
A Heartwarming Look At The July Fourth Parades Of Yesteryear
Stars, stripes, and tiny horses.
The 1930s and 1940s were tough decades for the United States. The Great Depression crippled the economy, and World War II tested the nation's resolve. It was also a golden age for documentary photography. Under the direction of Roy Stryker, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) created a remarkable pictorial record of American life with the help of top-notch photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Berenice Abbott. While shots such as Lange's Migrant Mother and Evans's portraits from impoverished Alabama relay the generation's haunting desperation, images from Fourth of July celebrations show how even the harshest times did not obliterate the country's spirit.
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