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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.
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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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| 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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| 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 — Your Instagram photos aren't where they used to be. — This spring, even as some 200 million people were using Instagram …
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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.”
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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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| 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 … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
MPAA Issues Overly Broad Takedown Of Little Used Reddit Film Community; Creates Much Bigger Reddit Film Community — Oh that wacky MPAA. Earlier this week, TorrentFreak noted that the MPAA issued a massively overbroad DMCA takedown to Google, asking it to remove an entire subreddit from its search results.
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| 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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| 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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