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Xinhua News Agency:
Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years — Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday.
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AllThingsD, NevilleHobson.com, Electronista and Slashdot
Adam Dachis / Lifehacker:
What You Need to Know About the Internet Snooping Bill (and How You Can Protect Yourself) — On Thursday, the US House of Representatives approved an internet snooping bill that requires internet service providers (ISPs) to keep records of customer activity for a year so police can review them as needed.
Laura Bly / USA Today:
Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story — When a San Francisco blogger named “EJ” wrote a riveting account of how she returned from a week-long business trip last month to find that her home had been ransacked and trashed by a paying guest she'd connected with through …
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TechCrunch, @dannysullivan, Betabeat and Thought Clusters
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Robert Scoble / Google+:
What we can learn from AirBNB and #ransackgate — If you read Techmeme this morning you can see AirBNB is in a deep PR crisis: http://www.techmeme.com/110730/ p4#a110730p4 — Photo credit, this is Airbnb's CEO, Brian Chesney speaking to Y Combinator's Startup School last year.
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Examiner, @carnage4life and @plusbryan
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How The Hell Is This My Fault?
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The Business Insider, Pulse2, Digital Trends, VentureBeat and @sgoraya
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Apple wins dispute over iPods.com, domain name ordered transferred — WIPO Panelist David Cairns has ruled in favor of Apple in a dispute over the domain name ipods.com. — Apple filed the complaint at the end of May with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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AppleInsider, Neowin.net and iPodNN, Thanks:fusible
Louis Gray:
Topify to Go Dark as Twitter Claims Another Dev Victim — Back in 2009, Topify emerged with detailed Twitter follower notifications, which made the service useful at a time when Twitter's own notifications were text only and didn't provide any information about the user.
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The Equity Kicker, Topify Blog and Newsome.Org
David Gelles / Financial Times:
Inside Match.com — As president and key engineer, Mandy Ginsberg and Amarnath Thombre have taken the world's biggest dating site to a new level — Entering the offices of Match.com is a bit like strutting into a disco. Coloured lights flash from the ceilings, workers lounge on circular banquettes …
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@dgelles, @felixsalmon, @ids, Plenty of fish blog and Felix
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Apple lawsuit forces Amazon to stop accepting new “Appstore” apps in Germany — Apple's efforts to get Amazon to stop using the word “Appstore” to describe its app store have not been successful yet. — But Apple has caused Amazon some trouble in Germany: Amazon has recently stopped accepting …
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Examiner, PC Magazine and Techie Buzz
Jillian York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A Case for Pseudonyms — pseu ·do ·nym —noun a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. — There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with. They may be concerned about threats …
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@david_connell, @craignewmark and @fredwilson
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Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online ‘Has To Go Away’
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@violetblue, En Tequila Es Verdad, Daily Mail, @mathewi, The Independent and Gawker
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Anyone Can Access Microsoft's Massive Location Database and See Where Your Laptop and Smartphone Have Been — Microsoft has been going around and building a database of publicly broadcast MAC addresses (along with their corresponding street address) for location services purposes.
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From Information …, CNET News, WPCentral.com, LiveSide.net and Examiner
Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police — British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. — Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court tomorrow. — Davis, reportedly …
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BBC, The Next Web and Geek.com, Thanks:melissakester
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
@BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A Twitter Teapot — Yesterday, President Barack Obama concluded his address to the nation by urging Americans to contact their representatives and urge action on a debt ceiling resolution. “If you want to see a bipartisan compromise …
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Mashable!, Bloggers Blog, textually.org, Reuters, The Atlantic Wire and NY Daily News, more at Mediagazer »
Charlie White / Mashable!:
Missouri Forbids Teachers and Students To Be Facebook Friends — If you're a student living in Missouri, you'd better not be Facebook friends with any of your teachers - that will soon be illegal. — According to Missouri Senate Bill 54 that goes into effect on August 28, any social networking …
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PC Magazine, The Atlantic Wire, TechnoBuffalo, senate.mo.gov, Examiner and Hack Education
