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June 30, 2014, 4:40 AM

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
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 …
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Carlos Bueno / Quartz:
How insular Silicon Valley companies exclude good job candidates by enforcing a “culture fit”  —  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.
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.
Bill Wasik / Wired:
Inside Highway1, PCH's incubator to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture products  —  The Man Making Silicon Valley Go Crazy for Hardware  —  Liam Casey, the founder and CEO of PCH, which is trying to create a platform to take hardware startups from “zero to Apple.”  Ian Allen
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Riley v. California ruling suggests the Supreme Court is rethinking its stance on privacy of digital data  —  Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud  —  When the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in the case of Riley v. California, it definitively told the government …
Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Second Life's second act will be a social network for virtual reality  —  Eight years ago, I was slouching through my college's required mass-media course and silently groaning while my professor excitedly mapped out the promises of Second Life.  That online virtual world, where players create items …

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