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Facebook data scientists manipulated News Feeds of more than 600K users for one week, found emotions are contagious online — Even online, emotions can be contagious — BE CAREFUL you don't catch those Facebook blues. Feelings, like viruses, can spread through online social networks.
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| Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online: |
Even the Editor of Facebook's Mood Study Thought It Was Creepy — Catching a glimpse of the puppet masters who play with the data trails we leave online is always disorienting. And yet there's something new-level creepy about a recent study that shows Facebook manipulated what users saw …
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| Chet Kanojia / Aereo: |
Aereo chooses to “pause its operations temporarily” following Supreme Court decision — A Letter to Our Consumers: Standing Together for Innovation, Progress and Technology - An Update on Aereo — “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Instagram moved the service's more than 20 billion photos from AWS to Facebook servers — How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing — From left to right, Instagram and Facebook engineers Pedro Canahuati, Patrick Bozeman, Rick Branson, Nick Shortway …
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Wrist band ID tech used at Disney theme parks could shed light on Apple's wearable strategy — Understanding Apple's Wearable Strategy — Someone who I believe has a good sense of Apple's thinking about wearables told me some months ago that if I wanted to understand part of Apple's wearable strategy I needed to go to Disney World.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bug in Android KeyStore that leaks credentials fixed only in KitKat — Researchers have warned of a vulnerability present on an estimated 86 percent of Android phones that may allow attackers to obtain highly sensitive credentials, including cryptographic keys for some banking services … | Business Insider: |
IAC Is Close To Acquiring Dating Startup HowAboutWe — IAC, which owns dating properties Match.com, OK Cupid and the majority stake in Tinder, is close to acquiring New York startup for singles, HowAboutWe. — The deal has not yet been finalized, according to an email founder Brian Schechter sent … | Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Search update on Android enables “Ok, Google” hotword anywhere, adds Audio History feature to increase voice search accuracy — Google Search 3.5.14 Adds “OK, Google” Hotword Everywhere, Plus Audio History — Google Search 3.5.14 is beginning to rollout with a couple of major enhancements.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Shuts Down TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses It Acquired In 2011 — TalkBin, a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then acquired by Google in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing “dwindling usage.”
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Cisco buying collaboration app provider Assemblage for Internet-of-Everything — Summary: With offices in San Francisco and Copenhagen, Assemblage's engineering team will be integrated with Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group to collaborate on web development.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Svpply's Founder Is Building A New And Improved Social Shopping Site Called Very Goods — The news earlier this week about the impending shutdown of Svpply, the social shopping and personal product curation site acquired by eBay nearly two years ago, was met with a fair amount of sadness.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Woot Founder's Next Project Is A New Daily Deals Site Called ‘Meh.’ — You can't keep Matt Rutledge down. At least not for long. — And goddammit, if he wants to sell you one item a day at an unbelievably discounted price, and to accompany that item with irreverent and sometimes nonsensical …
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