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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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.| 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.| 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 … | 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.| Slack Platform Blog: |
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.
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.| 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: |
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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 …
Developers: Find out how Windows Ink can power your apps — For Windows 10, we built an inking experience that complements hardware from Microsoft and our partners.
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 …
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.
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.
Introducing Adyen's In-app Checkout SDK — Get up and running with in-app mobile payments with two simple components of code.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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