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Phishing is not hacking. Users were tricked more than violated ... and other lessons from yesterday's made-up story.

Summer hours can be a perk with more bang for your buck than more traditional employee benefits.

Expanding highways and roads increases congestion by creating more demand--and building more public transportation doesn't help the problem. A quick drive on one of Los Angeles's many freeways illustrates the fact that having more roads doesn't necessarily prevent traffic. Now a study from the University of Toronto confirms it: Expanding highways and roads increases congestion by creating more demand.

Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price. But here's the catch: URLs themselves may not be long for this virtual world. Web URL Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price

SKETCH PAD Black + Blum offers the grown-up answer to the lunch box.

1. Ending weeks of offline misery after high-profile hack attacks, Sony's PlayStation Store is back online

The humble webcam has enabled many things: racy adventures on Chatroulette ; Skype chats with Grandma; remote learning. With this week's launch of YouEye , the hope is that the webcam will become a powerful--and inexpensive--new tool in user-experience testing for companies looking to quickly evaluate the effectiveness of their websites. YouEye pays people recruited from the client’s site, outsourced panels, or YouEye’s panel an average of $7 each to evaluate things like online advertising and attention spans by tracking their eyeball movements via their own webcams.

The discount-of-the-day site filed its papers today to become a publicly traded company. It's official.

No, my source for this story is not "The Onion". Jonathan Kaplan, of Flip Camera fame, has a new startup in the works; a grilled cheese restaurant chain called "The Melt". I know what you're thinking

Mysterious startup Kohort just emailed its social group of potential beta testers with a little more insight into how it plans to revolutionize ... well, social groups

Kitty and Lala are Chinese photographers and bloggers introducing playful, modern angles into fuddy-duddy Chinese wedding photos. Now they're part of Intel 's global campaign to promo its new-gen Core 2 CPUs

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business.

Tweets are now worth a thousand words. As expected, Twitter announced today that they're adding photos to their core feature set. Users will now be able to attach photos directly to their tweets from within Twitter.com (and soon from the company's mobile apps as well), rather than having to use an outside service

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Empires & Allies: Zynga's Newest Game Newly launched Empires & Allies is the social gaming giant's foray into storytelling wrapped in (what they hope) will be another addictive strategy/combat game that leaves us constantly requiring another fix.

Emboldened by the Arab Spring and social media, Syrian protesters are taking to the streets over smuggled YouTube videos that appear to show a 13-year-old boy who was physically and sexually tortured while in government custody. A graphic video of the corpse of a 13-year-old boy who appears to have been sexually and physically tortured by Syrian security officials has sparked international condemnation and riots across the country. The video (see still pic above) shows Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a resident of the southern village of Jiza, and appears to have been filmed by his family after they retrieved his corpse.