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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 — 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.
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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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| 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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| 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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MacDailyNews and Business Insider. Tweets: @rjs, @tim, @onejarednewman, @jyarow, @monkbent, @benbajarin and @parmy
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Documentary on Aaron Swartz “The Internet's Own Boy” available to watch 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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| 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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