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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study: “We never meant to upset you” — Sandberg: Facebook Study Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ — Facebook 's psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users was communicated “poorly …
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Tweets: @jason, @violetblue, @carnage4life, @harrymccracken, @arrington, @astepanovich, @dangillmor and @nycjim
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
| James Ball / Guardian: |
EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google — Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappeared’. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google — When you Google someone from within the EU …
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BBC News, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Salon, Techdirt, BGR, Business Insider and Forbes
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Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires video ad tech startup LiveRail for $400-500M, plans to keep it running — Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own — Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers …
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Facebook, LiveRail, Mercury News, VatorNews, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, AllFacebook, AdExchanger, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Gigaom, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Mashable and bizjournals
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Soma Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio — Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide variety of devices, from Xbox and Windows to iOS, Android and the Web. Games are the most popular application type …
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BetaNews, Ars Technica, The Next Web, ITworld.com, eWeek, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WinBeta, Neowin and GeekWire. Tweets: @lordned
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products — Yahoo's spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular.| Nick Summers / Businessweek: |
How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft seeks Office for Android testers as it readies tablet version — Touch-friendly Office Android apps coming before Windows version — Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite designed specifically for Android tablets.| Kif Leswing / Gigaom: |
Google announces the first 100 Project Ara beta testers — It appears Google's ambitious modular phone experiment is moving into the next phase. At Google's I/O developer conference, the Advanced Technology and Projects team was able to boot a Project Ara device in public for the first time …
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9to5Google, Dan Makoski, Ubergizmo, AndroidGuys, Techaeris, Android Central, The Next Web and TechnoBuffalo
| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more — Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0. Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Developer preview test for Android L's Project Volta shows promise, 2 hours or 35% more battery life on Nexus 5 — Examining Project Volta: We put Android L through our battery test — For each Android release, Google likes to have a “Project” that picks an area of weakness and focuses on tuning the whole OS to fix it.
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Geek.com, Android Beat, TechnoBuffalo, ExtremeTech, Redmond Pie, BGR, Gigaom and TechSpot
| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Announces High-Security ‘Vault’ Bitcoin Accounts — Called ‘Vault’, the new account was designed in response to demand for a more secure type of wallet from Coinbase's growing customer base of institutions and wealthy individuals, according to company CEO Brian Armstrong, who explained:
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot: |
CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging — Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival — In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.
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onGamers. Tweets: @ongamers_com, @slasher, @slasher, @mioff, @mathewi, @devinconnors and @kmmokai
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Samsung to end plasma TV production this year — Following in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. — The Samsung PNF8500 is the last great plasma TV. — Sarah Tew/CNET — Samsung SDI has announced …
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Tweets: @wirecutter and @dkatzmaier
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon resists FTC request to tighten in-app purchase policy for children — Amazon Resisting FTC on Policy Change for In-App Purchases — Amazon-FTC Dispute Is Over Limiting Children's Purchases — Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that it tighten …
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones — Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Samsung shuts down its Video and Media Hub, transfers users' accounts to M-Go — M-Go to Take Over Samsung's Movie Business — Samsung Electronics has discovered that making great screens and delivering great on-screen entertainment require different skills.
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Variety, ZDNet, FierceOnlineVideo News, Gigaom and Ubergizmo
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters — Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say
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BGR, TorrentFreak, BetaNews, The Independent, Forbes, PandoDaily, Wired.co.uk and Telegraph
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Google form Ethernet consortium for datacenter networks — Summary: Microsoft, Google and other firms have come together to form the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium with the aim of improving cloud datacenter networks. — Charlie Osborne — Five tech giants, including Google and Microsoft …
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EnterpriseTech, TechSpot, Inquirer and Data Center Knowledge
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Investor Tim Draper wins auction for 29,655 bitcoins seized from Silk Road, partners with Vaurum to leverage the pool as a liquidity source in emerging markets — Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road's 29,655 bitcoins — Draper to partner with Vaurum, which offers “secure storage solutions” to banks.
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Gigaom, Medium, CoinDesk, ABC News, The Register, PC Magazine, Reuters, Gizmodo, Fortune, PandoDaily, Wired and Los Angeles Times
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Canon cross license mobile, imaging patents — Summary: Microsoft and Canon are cross licensing their respective mobile and digital imaging patent portfolios. — Microsoft and Canon announced a cross-licensing patent agreement on July 2 which involves an undisclosed number … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nvidia preparing a Shield Tablet successor to its Android game console — The Shield Tablet looks set to be a hybrid 2-in-1 device that will show off the power of the Tegra K1 chip — Best known for designing graphics chips and mobile processors, Nvidia set out on a bold new course …
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Ars Technica, Phandroid, CNET, 9to5Google, Electronista, Engadget, Pocketnow, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, TechSpot and AndroidGuys
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
First 10K units of Oculus Rift DK2 should be arriving week of July 14 — With 45,000 Pre-Orders, The New Oculus Rift Will Start Arriving Around July 14th — Back in March, the second generation of Oculus' work-in-progress virtual reality headset went up for pre-order for $350.
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CNET, BGR, PC World and Electronista
| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter — Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies … Sponsor Posts
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