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 …

Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping for $630  —  If you missed our coverage during Mobile World Congress, then here's what you need to know about Blackphone: it's a mid-spec Android smartphone that comes pre-subscribed to (and pre-installed with) a bunch of privacy and anti-surveillance services, for a price of $629 off-contract.

UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk  —  If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies.  UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.

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.

Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Launches $100M Global Investment Fund  —  June is barely over, but Rakuten has already had a busy year.  In addition to purchasing messaging app Viber for $900 million, the Japanese consumer Internet conglomerate also made investments in several companies based …

Android Wear lacks mass market appeal given current software, hardware, design, and ecosystem  —  These are not the wearables we've been waiting for  —  Google presented its vision for smartwatches—one of the first waves of wearable computers—this week at its I/O conference in San Francisco.

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

Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features  —  Starting this week, Bing users are going to see even more Twitter content in search results.  —  As a result of an exclusive partnership between the two companies that started in 2009, tweets have been showing up in Bing search results for some time.

Mobile-Only Bank Osper Raises $10M To Aim At UK Youth Market  —  Osper, a new UK startup, has come up with an innovative way to create a banking service than can be used by children, combining prepaid debit cards and smartphone apps controlled by both them and their parents.