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In a cache of 160K conversations intercepted by NSA, 90% of those surveilled were not the intended targets — In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are — Files provided by Snowden show the extent ordinary Web users are caught in the net
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| Quartz: |
Following Netflix, YouTube shames ISPs delivering slow video with message underneath videos — YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video — When videos blur, buffer, or won't play altogether, YouTube is now pinning the blame on your internet service provider.
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| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Data Science group has run hundreds of tests with few boundaries until recently — Inside Facebook's Data-Science Team — Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight — Thousands of Facebook Inc. users received an unsettling message two years ago …
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Thanks:@evelynrusli| danah boyd / Medium: |
We need to hold all companies accountable, not just Facebook, for how they manipulate people — What does the Facebook experiment teach us? — Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation — I'm intrigued by the reaction that has unfolded around the Facebook “emotion contagion” study.
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| Vinod Khosla / Khosla Ventures: |
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin — At the annual KV CEO Summit, we were fortunate to have both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was (although not for lack of trying!) …
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| John Callaham / Android Central: |
50,000 units of Xiaomi's MiPad sold in just under four minutes — China-based Xiaomi started selling its Android-based tablet, the MiPad, in its home country earlier this week and the company claimed that 50,000 units were sold in its first 3 minutes and 59 seconds.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab's CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting The Next 20 Years — Forget what you know about the old Fab. This time CEO Jason Goldberg thinks he's finally got it right with a new furniture site called Hem. — Investors can be forgiven for demanding Goldberg's head given the sheer number of pivots the e-commerce site has endured.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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BestTechie, ArcticStartup, Racked National, The Next Web, VatorNews, Digital Trends and Co.Design. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
Daimler demonstrates prototype “Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025” with highway autopilot — Daimler Demonstrates a Self-Driving Truck — MAGDEBURG, Germany — For Daimler, the truck driver of the future looks something like this: He is seated in the cab of a semi, eyes on a tablet and hands resting in his lap.
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Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Transport Topics, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Daily Mail, NBC News, Bloomberg and Rough Type
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L — With the latest I/O conference, Google has finally publicly made public its plans for its new runtime on Android. The Android RunTime, ART, is the successor and replacement for Dalvik, the virtual machine on which Android Java code is executed on.| Dylan Love / Business Insider: |
Cycorp opens up about Cyc, a 30yo project to codify general human knowledge for machines — The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years — “We've been keeping a very low profile, mostly intentionally,” said Doug Lenat, President and CEO of Cycorp.| Ian Johnson / New York Times: |
Semiprivate social network WeChat eclipses public network Weibo as Chinese censors crack down — An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum — BEIJING — For the past few years, social media in China has been dominated by the Twitter-like Sina Weibo, a microblogging service that created … | Businessweek: |
Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick — Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus-size clothing stores.Sponsor Posts
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