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October 15, 2014
Dropbox: We Weren't Hacked
"The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox," said the company.
Earlier this week, a hacker claiming to have obtained 7 million Dropbox accounts posted 400 username and password combinations to Pastebin, dangling them as bait to anyone who wanted them. The idea was to solicit bitcoin donations in exchange for the user data: The more people donated, the more he would publish.
"Ebola Deeply," Launching Today, Is The Only Place You Should Be Getting Ebola News
Before prepping or panicking, click over to the Ebola Deeply, an authoritative resource from the journalists who brought you Syria Deeply.
Lara Setrakian hopes her newest website, Ebola Deeply, shuts down in six months. While that might seem like a strange goal for any other new venture, it's pure optimism for Ebola Deeply, the latest project from the team behind the single-topic news site Syria Deeply.
How Woody Allen Inspired Saturday Night Live's New Intro
Pentagram's Emily Obermann explains why she's uniquely qualified to design for SNL, and why the show's intro never promises funny.
Emily Obermann's connection with the SNL 'verse runs deep. Before the graphic design and branding pro joined Pentagram, she designed the identities for Saturday Night Live's 25th and 35th anniversaries, as well the identities for Tina Fey's 30 Rock and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But after Obermann went over to Pentagram, her status as Lorne Michael's go-to design gal continued, as she was asked to rebrand The Tonight Show for the newly-annointed Jimmy Fallon.
Want To Train Your Brain To Feel More Compassion? Here's How
Scientific evidence shows that we can teach our brains to feel more compassion, both for others and ourselves. Imagine how the world might be different if we all learned this skill.
Many of us know that if we want to become more physically healthy, we can exercise. What if we want to improve our emotional health? Are there ways to train emotional "muscles" such as compassion? Would such training improve our lives?
Compassion meditation is an ancient contemplative practice to strengthen feelings of compassion towards different kinds of people. The feeling of compassion itself is the emotional response of caring and wanting to help when encountering a person's suffering.
With practice, it's thought that compassion can be enhanced and this will increase the likelihood of a person exhibiting helping behavior--not only during the meditation practice, but out in the real world, when interacting with others. In a study my colleagues and I conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (directed by Dr. Richard J. Davidson), participants were taught to generate compassion for different categories of people, including both those they love and "difficult" people in their lives. Doing these kinds of exercises is a little like weight training--the compassion "muscle" is strengthened by practicing with people of increasing difficulty, like increasing weights over time.
Why Are Women Leaving Science, Engineering, And Tech Jobs?
Women working in STEM fields are 45% more likely than men to leave within the year, and it's not for lack of enthusiasm.
Recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation shows U.S. women working in science, engineering, and tech fields are 45% more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within the year.
4 Habits Of Lucky People
Is it possible to make your own luck? Make the most of the chances you have with these habits of lucky people.
My Nana was one of those people who just seemed naturally lucky. In the 1960s and '70s, she regularly entered contests and won prizes that included cash, a television, a mink jacket and even a new car. She'd frequently hit the jackpot when she played the slot machines, and she always seemed to be in the right place at the right time when it came to growing her real estate business.
October 14, 2014
Behind The Snappening: Why Snapchat's Growing Pains Will Likely Continue
The leak of thousands of Snapchat user images might just be the start of the company's troubles.
It snappened on Sunday: 200,000 nude Snapchat pictures posted to the Internet, the result of a hack first reported on Friday.
Amazon Will Open Two Pop-up Stores In California Next Week
The online retailer is also rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan.
Amazon confirmed Tuesday that it is opening up pop-up stores in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, next week for the holiday shopping season.
This Whimsical Machine Sends Your Tweets Via Weather Balloon
Where will your message land? No one knows.
We live in an era of communicative hyper-efficiency. With a few keystrokes, we can tweet an image to thousands of people across the world who, with a button press, can do the same.
Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Donate $25 Million To Fight Ebola
The Facebook CEO, along with his wife, are donating the money to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.
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