Pen.io: A quick, simple and elegant way to publish text on the web

Pen.iogives users a quick way to throw up a text-based page on the web. It’s basically the same thing as creating a website sans design elements. To get started, users simply provide Pen.io with a page title and a password to make changes and edits. The sign-up process takes only seconds and after that, you can start creating your first page. Similar to services like SquareSpace, this service enables users to change the title and the body of the page on the fly, without having to log-in to a back-end like WordPress....

2 min · 321 words · Brett Wilson

Pentagon report says UFOs can’t be explained, so what now?

A report from the US task force dedicated to investigating UFOs — or, in the official jargon, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) — has neither confirmed nor rejected the idea such sightings could indicate alien visits to Earth. On Friday June 25, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its eagerly awaitedunclassified intelligence report, titled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”. The document is a brief nine-page version of a larger classified report provided to the Congressional Services and Armed Services Committees....

6 min · 1100 words · Diana Archer

Pentagon to the world: hacking is an act of war

The Pentagon is sending a warning to nations who are considering engaging the US in cyber-warfare and has concluded that attacks coming from another country can constitute an “act of war,” which gives U.S. the right to respond using traditional military force, according to a report fromThe Wall Street Journal. Similar to how international treaties guided traditional wars, the Pentagon is now laying out its first formal cyber strategy to be discussed with its allies, which represents an early attempt to adjust to a changing world where even hackers could pose as a significant threat to the U....

2 min · 362 words · Sandra Robinson

People love small phones, so how come no one’s buying them?

Earlier this week,Bloomberg’s Mark Gurmansaid in his newsletter that Apple is gearing up to launcha new version of the diminutive iPhone SE, this time with 5G connectivity to bring it up to speed with the latest handsets on the market. There was great excitement in our newsroombecause we love compact phones, and don’t hear about many compact phones every year. That also got us thinking: whydon’twe see more compact phones these days?...

4 min · 755 words · Brian Kim

People no longer accept shitty jobs, and it’s fuelling the Great Resignation

“Do what you love,” is no longer just advice. High school students learn early on that their future careers should be passion-driven. Self-help books counsel job searchers to start with reflection on what they love. And Hollywood films teach people, in romantic fashion, to aspire to work that is intrinsically satisfying and expresses our authentic selves. Researchers call this way of thinking about work thepassion paradigm, and studies show it has become pervasive in modern societies....

5 min · 1002 words · Sabrina Zimmerman
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