As if the idea of 56 million credit cards being accessed by hackers during the Home Depot security breach wasn’t enough, now the company is saying that the hackers got 53 million email addresses. Today the chain hardware and lumber store announced that hackers accessed more than just credit card data during a series of breaches that went on between April and September of this year. Home Depot says that customers will be contacted about the breach and warns customers to be aware of phishing scams. You know, like one from “Home Depot” that has a link to change your password….
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Yesterday, I found myself chatting with a therapist in the middle of a public square in New York. That’s not a normal occurrence for me – I was testing out Talkspace, an iOS app and Web service for chatting with licensed therapists. The company had setup fake living rooms inside inflated domes in order to convince people to give the app a try. Face-to-face therapy is expensive. Many of us need it, but it’s difficult to find the time and money to make it happen. There’s also a lingering social stigma about going to a therapist. Talkspace is trying to break down…
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After partnering with Iconfactory to design emojis for its web client, Twitter has decided to open source the entire library. Developers can grab the library from Github and start implementing the fancy little characters into their apps, sites and anywhere else you need a character of an ice cream cone next to sushi. Automattic, the makers of a little CMS known as WordPress, is already implementing the emojis into the content management system. While emojis are commonplace on mobile devices, today’s news means that you’ll start seeing them everywhere. Whether you like it or not. ➤ Open sourcing Twitter emoji for…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s AMA: Messaging app, his favorite unreleased features and Social Network movie
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Today Facebook hosted a video AMA of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. A week ago, Facebook asked users to drop questions for the CEO. Today, some of them got their answers. Facebook has had weekly Q&As for employees. This is the first one where the social network invited its users to participate. Mark wasn’t alone, he had Sheryl Sandberg and others on the management team in attendance in Mark gets stumped by a question. Why did you force us to install Facebook Messenger? The first thing I want to do is acknowledge that asking everyone in our community to install a new…
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