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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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See also Mediagazer| 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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| 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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| New York Times: |
With Revenue Roaring, Twitter's Advertising Team Is Untouched by Turmoil — Twitter's top executive ranks have been transformed in the past year, from its general counsel to, most recently, its chief financial officer. — Many of the executives have left or been pushed out as Twitter's chief executive …
Tweets: @sacca and @karaswisher
| 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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Tweets: @parislemon and @_alexlawrence
| Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity: |
Amazon's Fire Phone is an experiment to mitigate mobile's threat to traditional e-commerce — The Real Meaning of the Fire Phone — People have been asking my opinion of the new Amazon Fire Phone, but I've had a lot of trouble answering. My first reaction was overwhelmingly blah.
Tweets: @hugh_w_forrest, @michaelmace, @fuelcut and @hunterwalk
| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Google beefs up enterprise efforts with Drive for Work, Android Work, and executive hires from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, AWS — Google beefs up its enterprise chops — With a new crop of executives from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, the company is quickly building partnerships.
Tweets: @mdkail and @milesward
| 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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MIUI, Neowin, Ubergizmo, TheDomains.com, Mike Cane's xBlog, AndroidOS.in, Liliputing, IntoMobile and AndroidGuys
| 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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| 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.| Businessweek: |
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