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First there was the double rainbow and now double tropical cyclones!

First there was the famed Double Rainbow, and now a set of double tropical cyclones are in line to hit the Hawaiian islands this week!! According to an article from The Weather Channel a pair of tropical cyclones like this is rare, but not unheard of. A similar event happened back in 1982 with tropical depression Daniel and tropical storm Gilma.

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10 Shocking Stats About Display Ads

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/horrifying-display-advertising-stats About 50% of clicks on mobile ads are accidental. Hubspot recently collected a bunch of stats about display ads from different sources and found some pretty shocking results. You are more likely to get into MIT than click a banner ad.

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Snapchat hack exposes names and phone numbers of over 4 million users

On Tuesday anonymous hackers used a known security flaw in the Snapchat photo messaging app to access data on 4.6 million users, including names and phone numbers. The hackers then posted a copy of the data on a site called SnapchatDB.info

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Target data breach could put millions of customer credit cards at risk

The Minneapolis Star Tribune posted an article today that Target Corp. has suffered a security breach that could put millions of customer credit cards at risk. A spokeswoman from American Express has confirmed the breach, and it appears that security expert Brian Krebs first reported the issue on December 13th.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to clean up radar images

forecast.io has an interesting blog post about their Dark Sky forecasting system and the process they use to remove noise (such as ground clutter) from radar images. Here’s an image showing the system in action: