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Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study — * Updated with an additional statement from Adam Kramer, the Facebook data scientist who conducted the study. — This weekend, the Internet discovered a study published earlier this month in an academic journal … | Sebastian Deterding / Tumbling Conduct: |
Frame Clashes, or: Why the Facebook Emotion Experiment Stirs Such Emotion — The PNAS article “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” is currently causing quite some emotional outpour itself. — Here's an abstract of the article (and here's the full text):
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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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| Carlos Bueno / Quartz: |
The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture — There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists.
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| 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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| Tim Rogers / D Magazine: |
Woot founder Matt Rutledge is self-funding a new company called A Mediocre Corporation to conduct e-commerce experiments — This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You — The breakfast with Jeff Bezos started awkwardly and ended with an indignity that Matt Rutledge didn't even catch at first.
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| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
Quickoffice apps to be discontinued following integration into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued — 2 years ago, Google bought Quickoffice, one of the best mobile apps for editing Office files. At that time, Google explained that “Quickoffice …
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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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| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Google delays multi-language support in Google Now — Web giant pulls back on an announced update to Google Now that would've allowed multilingual people to switch at will between languages. — A new feature to let multilingual Google Now users switch between languages on the go has been delayed.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Inside the Google World Cup War Room (Video) — As the U.S. came close to tying the match with Germany in the final minute of stoppage time at the World Cup, shouts were heard in bars, living rooms and workplaces across the United States. — But at one nondescript loft office … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Documentary about Aaron Swartz, “The Internet's Own Boy”, now playing 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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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 … Sponsor Posts
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