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June 28, 2014, 8:55 PM

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Aviva Rutkin / New Scientist:

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.

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 …

More: Slate, The Atlantic Online and The Next Web

Tweets: @melanietbaum, @aschweig, @texasinafrica and @tcarmody

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.”

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, VatorNews, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET, Guardian, Variety, blog.chron.com, Re/code, Glass, Gigaom, Engadget, PC World, NPR, The Next Web and New York Magazine

Tweets: @aereo and @davezatz

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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 …

More: Wired.co.uk, VentureBeat, ZDNet, AllFacebook, Softpedia News, Instagram Engineering, Business Insider and Data Center Knowledge. Tweets: @glennf

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 …

More: Security Intelligence, Help Net Security and Threatpost. Tweets: @weldpond

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 …

More: TechCrunch. Thanks:@stevekovach

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.

More: Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com, Pocketnow, Greenbot and AndroidGuys

Chris Welch / The Verge:

T-Mobile no longer counts speed tests against your monthly data cap — Testing the download and upload speeds of your smartphone connection with apps like Speedtest will no longer count against your monthly data allowance on T-Mobile. The carrier has confirmed this change with Android Central …

More: FierceWireless, Android Central, Android Community, TmoNews, Ubergizmo, Android Authority, Slate and BGR

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.

More: Cisco Blog, InfotechLead.com, VentureBeat, CITEworld and eWeek

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.

More: MacDailyNews and Business Insider. Tweets: @rjs, @jyarow, @tim, @onejarednewman, @monkbent, @benbajarin and @parmy

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.

More: Svpply, Bijan Sabet and Laughing Squid

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.”

More: Talk To The Manager Blog and GeekWire

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