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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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Tweets: @aereo and @davezatz

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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.

More: pnas.org, The A.V. Club, PC World, ThinkProgress, The Verge, ANIMAL, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Business Insider, TechRadar.com, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Gizmodo

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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 …

More: The Atlantic Online and The Next Web. Tweets: @texasinafrica, @melanietbaum, @aschweig and @tcarmody

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 — From left to right, Instagram and Facebook engineers Pedro Canahuati, Patrick Bozeman, Rick Branson, Nick Shortway …

More: Wired.co.uk, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Instagram Engineering, AllFacebook, Softpedia News, Business Insider and Data Center Knowledge. Tweets: @glennf

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 …

More: TechCrunch. Thanks:@stevekovach

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.

More: Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com, Pocketnow and AndroidGuys

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Svpply's Founder Is Building A New And Improved Social Shopping Site Called Very Goods — The news earlier this week about the impending shutdown of Svpply, the social shopping and personal product curation site acquired by eBay nearly two years ago, was met with a fair amount of sadness.

More: Svpply, Bijan Sabet and Laughing Squid

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google Shuts Down TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses It Acquired In 2011 — TalkBin, a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then acquired by Google in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing “dwindling usage.”

More: GeekWire and Talk To The Manager Blog

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

University of California considers barring employees from using Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, cites concerns over liability, regulation — UC may bar traveling workers from using Uber, Lyft, Airbnb — The University of California is considering barring employees on business trips from staying in Airbnb rentals …

More: The Technology Chronicles, The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Washington Post, UCLA Faculty Association and bizjournals. Tweets: @startupljackson

Wall Street Journal:

NBC in discussions with Dish over Dish's ad-skipping Hopper recorder, puts lawsuit on hold — NBC, Dish Talks Ease Tensions Over Ad-Skipping — Two-Year-Old Standoff With Broadcasters May Be Easing — Dish Network Corp. is in discussions with NBC over Dish's ad-skipping digital video recorder …

Tweets: @shaliniwsj

Kelly Jackson Higgins / Dark Reading:

20-year-old integer overflow vulnerability found, being patched in pervasive LZO compression algorithm — Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens ‘Internet Of Things’ — A newly discovered bug in the pervasive LZO algorithm has generated a wave of patching of open-source tools such as the Linux kernel this week.

More: The Mouse Trap, RealTime Data Compression, CSO Online Steve Ragan, SecurityWeek, Telegraph, Softpedia News and The Register

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app — The “Internet of things,” the “Connected Home,” the “Smart Home,” whatever you want to call it, it's just a fancy way of turning your stuff on and off with your smartphone. Now GE has introduced a cheaper way to stay on the couch and control your lights.

More: GE, GE Reports, MacDailyNews, App Advice, Gigaom, Digital Trends, Android Central, iMore, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and SlashGear. Tweets: @fmanjoo

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