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Personal sharing shifts from Facebook to more intimate audiences on Snapchat and Instagram — Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself — Staff said to call lack of intimate sharing ‘context collapse’ — Facebook tries prompting more personal types of posting| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg briefly demoed a version of the Facebook app with redesigned sharing interface built to combat personal sharing decline — Mark Zuckerberg's latest Facebook beta pushes you to share more — Yesterday we heard that Facebook has a sharing problem, and now we know part of what Facebook is doing to address it.| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
How IP mapping service MaxMind locating 600M IP addresses to the geographic center of the US led to trouble for one Kansas resident — How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell — An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin …
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U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc. …
| George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Doctors used data collected by a Fitbit Charge HR to decide whether to reset a patient's heart rate with electrical cardioversion — This Dude's Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life — A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
With 60K home WiFi routers preordered, Luma raises $12.5M Series A from Accel, Amazon, others — Amazon Invests in Luma, a New Home WiFi System — It's been a year since we were introduced to Eero, a home Wifi solution that promised to improve coverage by using multiple access points.
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| John Everington / The National: |
John Chen says BlackBerry will release two mid-range Android smartphones this year, one of them with physical keyboard, admits Priv was too expensive — BlackBerry switches focus back on mid-range smartphone market — BlackBerry has switched its focus back to the mid-range smartphone market …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
How skilled attackers are using newly evolved crypto-ransomware to turn every network intrusion into a potential payday — OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone — Crypto-ransomware has turned every network intrusion into a potential payday.
Tweets: @chrispirillo and @thepacketrat
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Slack shares its platform product roadmap, highlights app discovery, interactivity, and developer experience as major themes, suggests app ideas — The Slack Platform Roadmap — We know that being a developer is hard, and building on a platform is not a decision to be made lightly.
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The Next Web and Digital Trends. Tweets: @slackapi, @mihiresy, @chartier, @shellen, @jasoncosta, @stevesi, @mulligan, @danielzarick, @chartier, @anildash and @rsarver
MIT | Experimental Learning:
Turn big data into intelligence — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now offers an online course in analyzing big data to better understand and predict human networks and behaviours in social structures.
Turn big data into intelligence — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now offers an online course in analyzing big data to better understand and predict human networks and behaviours in social structures.Recent Sponsor Post
| Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook says it's working on new ways to police shady retailers advertising “overwhelmingly unsatisfactory” products on Facebook — Facebook Taking Shady Dress Retailers “Very Seriously” — Facebook is working on new ways to police advertisers whose products are … | Kelly Jackson Higgins / darkREADING: |
An analysis of the top 121 US undergraduate computer science programs found that none of the top 10 require students take a cybersecurity course — Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes — New study reveals that none of the top 10 US university computer science …
Tweets: @pmarca
| Sarah Jeong / The Atlantic: |
How a cashless society enables more financial surveillance and censorship through choke points run by corporate intermediaries — How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother — In 2014, Cass Sunstein—one-time “regulatory czar” for the Obama administration—wrote an op-ed advocating …
Tweets: @restlessdesign, @theatlantic, @ryantate and @lainnafader
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Zoho:
Zoho CRM + Google Analytics: More targeted marketing campaigns. — This is a guest post by Sergey Zuev, an entrepreneur & marketing technologist based in Odessa, Ukraine. He creates software tools …
Zoho CRM + Google Analytics: More targeted marketing campaigns. — This is a guest post by Sergey Zuev, an entrepreneur & marketing technologist based in Odessa, Ukraine. He creates software tools …
MIT | Experimental Learning:
Turn big data into intelligence — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now offers an online course in analyzing big data to better understand and predict human networks and behaviours in social structures.
Turn big data into intelligence — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now offers an online course in analyzing big data to better understand and predict human networks and behaviours in social structures.
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What's the future of buying digital goods & services? — We asked 7000+ digital consumers how they expect to pay for digital goods & services in the future. The results are in.
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