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Personal sharing shifts from Facebook to more intimate audiences on Snapchat and Instagram — Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself — Staff said to call lack of intimate sharing ‘context collapse’ — Facebook tries prompting more personal types of posting| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg briefly demoed a version of the Facebook app with redesigned sharing interface built to combat personal sharing decline — Mark Zuckerberg's latest Facebook beta pushes you to share more — Yesterday we heard that Facebook has a sharing problem, and now we know part of what Facebook is doing to address it.| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
How IP mapping service MaxMind locating 600M IP addresses to the geographic center of the US led to trouble for one Kansas resident — How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell — An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
With 60K home WiFi routers preordered, Luma raises $12.5M Series A from Accel, Amazon, others — Amazon Invests in Luma, a New Home WiFi System — It's been a year since we were introduced to Eero, a home Wifi solution that promised to improve coverage by using multiple access points.
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| George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Doctors used data collected by a Fitbit Charge HR to decide whether to reset a patient's heart rate with electrical cardioversion — This Dude's Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life — A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure.
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U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc. …
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Slack shares its platform product roadmap, highlights app discovery, interactivity, and developer experience as major themes, suggests app ideas — The Slack Platform Roadmap — We know that being a developer is hard, and building on a platform is not a decision to be made lightly.
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| John Everington / The National: |
John Chen says BlackBerry will release two mid-range Android smartphones this year, one of them with physical keyboard, admits Priv was too expensive — BlackBerry switches focus back on mid-range smartphone market — BlackBerry has switched its focus back to the mid-range smartphone market …
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The Register, The Verge, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, PhonesReviews UK, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, Forbes, International Business Times, Ubergizmo, The Economic Times, PCWorld, Android Police, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Globe and Mail, Digital Trends, Droid Life, TalkAndroid.com, Pocketnow, CrackBerry.com, PhoneArena, Android Beat, MobileSyrup.com and Fone Arena. Tweets: @harrymccracken
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
How skilled attackers are using newly evolved crypto-ransomware to turn every network intrusion into a potential payday — OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone — Crypto-ransomware has turned every network intrusion into a potential payday.
Tweets: @chrispirillo and @thepacketrat
| Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook says it's working on new ways to police shady retailers advertising “overwhelmingly unsatisfactory” products on Facebook — Facebook Taking Shady Dress Retailers “Very Seriously” — Facebook is working on new ways to police advertisers whose products are … | Kelly Jackson Higgins / darkREADING: |
An analysis of the top 121 US undergraduate computer science programs found that none of the top 10 require students take a cybersecurity course — Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes — New study reveals that none of the top 10 US university computer science …
Tweets: @danielcornell and @pmarca
| Sarah Jeong / The Atlantic: |
How a cashless society enables more financial surveillance and censorship through choke points run by corporate intermediaries — How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother — In 2014, Cass Sunstein—one-time “regulatory czar” for the Obama administration—wrote an op-ed advocating …
Tweets: @restlessdesign, @theatlantic, @ryantate and @lainnafader
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