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March 19, 2015
3 Ways To Use Gestures When Speaking Without Feeling Uncomfortable
Never sure what to do with your hands while talking? Keep these three movements in mind.
For many people, public speaking is so fraught with anxiety that they give little thought to how they should gesture to help get their point across.
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The Four Biggest Myths About Changing Your Habits
We talked to an expert on habit change to figure out what most of us have all wrong about self-improvement.
Everyone has that one habit they've tried to break over and over, with no success. Could believing the wrong things about our behaviors be holding us back?
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She's Come A Strong Way, Baby: The Ass-Kicking Evolution Of Wonder Woman
And finally—finally!—the superheroine is also coming to the big screen.
She was created in response to the lack of female characters in superhero comics. Originally called Suprema the Wonder Woman, she touched a cultural nerve as women rushed into the workforce, replacing men who'd left to fight during World War II. Soon she would be renamed simply Wonder Woman, and after that, comics about her were outselling Superman's stories. Today, she's the world's most famous superheroine and a popular feminist icon.
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March 18, 2015
Why iPod And Nest Creator Tony Fadell Thinks Like A Child
For one thing, it helps fight against habituation. And that's no small feat.
Habituation is the idea that the more we experience something, the more we get used to its quirks and inconveniences, and the less we question it. One example of this: having stickers on fruits that we must peel off before eating. In many ways habituation is the opposite of disruption and a barricade to brainstorming new, innovative ideas. "It stops us from noticing and fixing the products around us," Tony Fadell, the product designer of the iPod and creator of Nest, said during his TED talk today on creative ignition.
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Your iPhone And iPad Just Got Easier Than Ever To Hack
iPhones can be pre-set to erase content if incorrect PINs are entered 10 times in a row. This new tech seems to have found a way around it.
Devices that break into iPhones by brute-forcing passwords have been around since the iPhone was released, but iOS engineers developed countermeasures, including the latest: a nuclear option that wipes phone data if the wrong password is entered 10 times. But this clever (and insidious) $300 black-market IP Box has beaten that system by plugging directly into the phone, according to a post by security consultancy firm MDSec.
The Top 5 Tweets From Starbucks' #RaceTogether Fiasco
Twitter: 1. Starbucks: 0.
A few days ago, Starbucks and USA Today launched Race Together, an initiative aimed at getting Starbucks baristas to engage in meaningful and thought-provoking conversations about race with customers—and it's been open season on the coffee retailer ever since.
Sony's PlayStation Vue Is The Closest Thing Yet To Cable TV For The Internet
This new streaming service for Sony's game consoles offers 85 live channels and an inventive interface.
At some point in the future when we look back on the major tech developments of 2015, there's a pretty good chance we'll remember it as the year that pay TV really began its migration onto the Internet.
Microsoft's Windows 10 Moves: Free Upgrades, Chilling With Pirates, Converting Androids
The amnesty upgrade is a clear play for the Chinese market.
Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 10 for users with at least Windows 7 was announced in January, but news has broken that Microsoft is offering the upgrade to everyone—even those with pirated versions of older Windows operating systems. The amnesty upgrade is a clear play for the Chinese market, says Reuters, where three quarters of all operating systems are "not properly licensed."
Intel, Google, And TAG Heuer Announce A Swiss Smartwatch
Two Silicon Valley titans team with one of Switzerland's biggest watch brands on a smartwatch that's likely to emphasize the "watch" part.
Get ready for a smartwatch that looks more like, well, a watch.
Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, "I Would Not Want To Be A Designer"
The lauded Braun designer reveals how architecture has influenced his work, what Apple gets right, and the kind of design he truly hates.
This is the first of three excerpts from Helvetica/ Objectified/ Urbanized: The Complete Interviews by filmmaker Gary Hustwit. Join Hustwit Wednesday, March 25, at the Strand in New York, for a talk about the book with designers Paula Scher, Tobias Frere-Jones, Karim Rashid, Davin Stowell, and Noah Chasin.—Eds
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