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This Company Will Break Up With Your Partner for $10

Nov 13, 2015 7:45 AM CST

This Company Will Break Up With Your Partner for $10

The Breakup Shop thinks 'everyone deserves to be single'

(Newser) - There is now a service for everything—and yes, that extends to the very personal act of breaking up with your significant other. Founded by two brothers in Canada who love their idea enough to market it but not enough to give their full names, The Breakup Shop will send...

NYC May Give Personal
Email Addresses to Trees

Nov 11, 2015 3:00 PM CST

NYC May Give Personal Email Addresses to Trees

'NYC is a tough place to be a tree'

(Newser) - Ever wanted to drop a line to a charming red maple but thought it would be a bit macabre to send it a letter written on the disfigured remains of one of its fallen relatives? Well good news! New York City politician Mark Levine has introduced a bill to assign...

Hillary Gets 3 Pinocchios
on Email Claim

OPINION

Nov 9, 2015 1:59 PM CST

Hillary Gets 3 Pinocchios on Email Claim

Washington Post: '90 to 95%' stat didn't come from the State Department

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton may have emerged from her marathon grilling before the House Benghazi panel in fine shape , but she was unable to definitively answer one question in particular. After she repeated her assertion that "90 to 95%" of her emails were in the State Department's system anyway, panel...

Gmail App Will Now
Write Emails for You

Nov 4, 2015 10:37 AM CST

Gmail App Will Now Write Emails for You

Smart Reply offers quick responses from 'deep-learning' network

(Newser) - Do you dread replying to emails, especially while on the go? Google's Inbox by Gmail app has a crafty new feature that could eliminate the task by writing responses for you. The Smart Reply feature is basically like auto-suggest but for phrases rather than words, reports Buzzfeed . The feature...

White House Doesn't
Want Clinton-Obama
Emails Released

Oct 30, 2015 4:30 PM CDT

White House Doesn't Want Clinton-Obama Emails Released

Will seek to block their release, per presidential precedent

(Newser) - President Obama and Hillary Clinton did exchange emails via Clinton's private email server, but the White House is seeking to block their release. The White House press secretary said back in March that Clinton and Obama "did have the occasion to email one another" while Clinton was secretary...

Yahoo Mail:
We're Killing
Passwords

Oct 16, 2015 12:50 PM CDT

Yahoo Mail: We're Killing Passwords

Email service will now use push notifications on mobile devices to sign users in

(Newser) - Yahoo Mail is turning 18, and it's marking the occasion with a big move: no more passwords. The company announced Thursday it's dumping what one Gartner security analyst calls the "antiquated" process of punching in a password to access messages and replacing it with a push notification...

Hackers in 3 Countries
Tried to Hit Clinton Server

Oct 8, 2015 9:19 AM CDT

Hackers in 3 Countries Tried to Hit Clinton Server

Congressional docs show emails left vulnerable for months

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's private email server was vulnerable to cyberattacks from June to October 2013 when there was no program in place to monitor threats, reports the AP . Shortly after Platte River Networks—which maintained the server at a data center in New Jersey during that time—hired a company...

More Private
Clinton Emails
Reportedly
Discovered

Sep 25, 2015 1:00 PM CDT

More Private Clinton Emails Reportedly Discovered

It's the scandal that won't go away for Clinton

(Newser) - The Defense Department has found a number of messages sent from Hillary Clinton's private email account that she failed to turn over to the Obama administration, the AP reports. Clinton has repeatedly claimed to have passed along all work-related emails from her private account and server. These fewer than...

Gone but Now Resurrected:
Clinton's Deleted Emails

Sep 23, 2015 6:11 AM CDT

Gone but Now Resurrected: Clinton's Deleted Emails

FBI has been easily able to get back at least some from the private server

(Newser) - The emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her notorious private server after deeming them private aren't as deleted as she thought: Bloomberg reports that FBI agents have been able to retrieve at least some of the estimated 30,000 deleted emails as part of the investigation into whether she...

Tech Company
Sees No Proof
Clinton Emails
Were 'Wiped'

Sep 13, 2015 3:40 PM CDT

Tech Company Sees No Proof Clinton Emails Were 'Wiped'

(Newser) - The company that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server says it has no knowledge that the server was "wiped," which could mean that more than 30,000 emails Clinton says she deleted from the device could be recovered, according to a report in the Washington Post . Clinton...

Clinton
Finally
Apologizes
for Private
Server

Sep 8, 2015 4:40 PM CDT

Clinton Finally Apologizes for Private Server

In latest ABC interview

(Newser) - Four days after declining to apologize for her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has changed course. "That was a mistake," she said, referring to her use of a personal email account to send work-related emails, during an interview...

CIA: Clinton's
Email Had
Classified
Information

Sep 8, 2015 6:55 AM CDT

CIA: Clinton's Email Had Classified Information

But State Dept. rep says 'classification is rarely a black and white question'

(Newser) - Since July, Hillary Clinton's team has been fighting findings by the intelligence community's inspector general that she housed classified information on her private email server. But a special intelligence review by the CIA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency just bolstered the original proclamation, finding that two emails she...

Want to Show Some Emotion? Send an Email

NEW STUDY

Sep 7, 2015 11:42 AM CDT

Want to Show Some Emotion? Send an Email

New research says writing process may cause emotional arousal in sender

(Newser) - If you want to convey something affectionate or romantic and you can't do it in person, it may be better to send an email than leave a voicemail. So report researchers at Indiana University Bloomington in the journal Computers in Human Behavior after analyzing both the messages being sent...

State Department
Staffer Got Extra
Paycheck, Direct
From Clintons

Sep 5, 2015 12:51 PM CDT

State Department Staffer Got Extra Paycheck, Direct From Clintons

Family paid him out of its own pocket to maintain email server

(Newser) - The Washington Post today sheds a little more light on how Hillary Clinton's infamous email operation worked while she was at the State Department. As you might expect, the word "unusual" is involved. It turns out that the Clintons paid a department staffer out of their own pocket...

Clinton's IT Guy
Will Take the Fifth

Sep 3, 2015 6:52 AM CDT

Clinton's IT Guy Will Take the Fifth

3 congressional committees want him to testify about email server

(Newser) - Bryan Pagliano's is not a household name, but he soon might be the most well-known IT guy in the nation. He is a former State Department staffer who helped set up Hillary Clinton's private email server, and at least three congressional committees want him to testify, reports the...

Guy Named Vince Creates 'Reply All' Chaos at Reuters

Aug 27, 2015 8:59 AM CDT

Guy Named Vince Creates 'Reply All' Chaos at Reuters

He sent an email to 33K employees, and the reply-all chain still won't stop

(Newser) - Ever done something you wished you could take back? Like accidentally sent an email to 33,000 Thomson Reuters employees? That's what some guy named Vince apparently did yesterday, flooding inboxes and setting off a "reply all" chain that some say slowed down Reuters email and provided the...

Clinton Will Turn Over
Her Email Server

Aug 11, 2015 6:58 PM CDT

Clinton Will Turn Over Her Email Server

Also: 2 emails are deemed top secret

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has agreed to turn over her private email server to the Justice Department, though it may not be worth much to investigators. As the Hill reports, it's not clear whether any of the emails that Clinton deleted after deeming them private can be recovered. She says she...

Raging Online
Can Make You
Even Angrier

STUDIES SAY

Aug 11, 2015 1:42 PM CDT

Raging Online Can Make You Even Angrier

Forget catharsis—'e-venting' may just fuel the fire, studies suggest

(Newser) - Nothing like a good online vent to blow off a little steam, right? As Melissa Dahl writes for New York , a venting episode on Gchat is "immediate, it's intimate, and there's just something so satisfying about the physical sensation of typing very, very hard, taking out my...

China Snooping in
Top US Officials'
Emails Since
2010: NSA

Aug 10, 2015 2:15 PM CDT

China Snooping in Top US Officials' Emails Since 2010: NSA

And the intrusion is still happening, senior US intelligence official says

(Newser) - For those who've been wondering why such a big deal has been made about Hillary Clinton's private email server, this could add some context. A senior US intelligence official, as well as a "top-secret" NSA document from 2014, indicates that China has been reading the private emails...

FBI Investigating Security
of Hillary Clinton's Emails

Aug 5, 2015 6:05 AM CDT

FBI Investigating Security of Hillary Clinton's Emails

But it's not targeting her, per a WaPo report

(Newser) - The FBI is taking a look at the private email server Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state and is also asking about a thumb drive that holds copies of emails sent by Clinton during that time as part of an inquiry into the security of her email...