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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 — Updated, Sunday, 5:44 a.m. Eastern. — 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 …
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Frame Clashes, or: Why the Facebook Emotion Experiment Stirs Such Emotion — The PNAS article “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” is currently causing quite some emotional outpour itself. — Here's an abstract of the article (and here's the full text):
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
OEMs will not be able to customize the software of Android Wear, Android Auto, or Android TV — Android Wear, Auto, and TV save you from skins, and OEMs from themselves — Two watches and two OEMs, but one operating system and one interface. — Our full Android Wear hardware …
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| Eric Calouro / NEWSBTC: |
California Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Legalizing Alternative Currencies Like Bitcoin Into Law — We've been discussing a bill that's been making its rounds through the legal system in California, and as of this weekend, it's been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown just days after the news …
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| Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters: |
California governor signs bill to bring bitcoin and other currency into fold — (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill that clears away possible state-level obstacles to alternative currencies such as bitcoin. — The legislation repeals what backers … | Timothy B. Lee / Vox: |
Marc Andreessen on how regulation and short-selling are killing the IPO — The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. — Twenty years ago, a 22-year-old Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, the company behind the first commercially successful web browser.| Rod Trent / WindowsITPro: |
Microsoft to suspend email security alerts on Jul 1 due to “changing governmental policies”, presumably Canada's anti-spam law — Microsoft Forced to Suspend Email as a Notification System for Security Alerts — An email from Microsoft is circulating around today … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Documentary about Aaron Swartz, “The Internet's Own Boy”, now playing in theaters and online — Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever — Aaron Swartz was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19 …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Matias Duarte, VP of design at Google on how they developed Material Design — Material world: how Google discovered what software is made of — The next era of Google design is about software as substance — “It is a sufficiently advanced form of paper as to be indistinguishable from magic.”| Tim Bajarin / Tech.pinions: |
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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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
As more companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb enter highly-regulated markets, tech must learn to work with regulators and participate in the public sphere — Tech's Toughest Battle Is Regulatory — For about a decade from Facebook's founding in February 2004 to Twitter's IPO last November …
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