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catparty writes:
Google didn't invent email, but ten years ago it began refining it. From Gmail to Wave, Buzz, Priority Inbox, Google+ and beyond, Google's quest could end with Inbox.
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catparty writes:
In his apology, Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox claimed that Facebook was caught “off guard” by a lone actor who reported “several hundred” accounts as fake. That individual, known as "RealNamePolice," reported “upwards of thousands" of accounts starting on Sept. 8. "On Monday morning the second week hundreds dropped like flies."
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catparty writes:
Apple makes it very difficult for users to secure their iCloud accounts with two-step verification. After repeated warnings against enabling the safeguard, anyone using a non-Apple email address for their Apple ID is asked to wait 3 whole days before 2-step verification can be enabled.
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blottsie writes:
In a move out of the anti-SOPA campaign playbook, Fight for the Future and other net neutrality activist groups have set up the Battle for the Net coalition, which plans to launch an “Internet slowdown day” later this month.
No actual traffic will be slowed down. Instead, participating sites will display embeddable modules that include a spinning “loading” symbol and information about contacting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the White House, and members of Congress.
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catparty writes:
An examination of what we can know about Facebook's new machine learning News Feed algorithm:
Facebook's current News Feed algorithm might be smarter, but some of its core considerations don't stray too far from the groundwork laid by EdgeRank, though thanks to machine learning, Facebook's current algorithm has a better ear for "signals from you." Facebook confirmed to us that the new News Feed ranking algorithm does indeed take 100,000 weighted variables into account to determine what we see. These factors help Facebook display an average 300 posts culled from roughly 1,500 possible posts per day, per user.
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catparty writes:
A long-isolated Panoan language tribe in Brazil has contracted influenza following its first voluntary contact with the outside world. With only some tribe members immunized, they have since returned back to their home in the forest of the Brazilian state Acre.
"Flu virus is potentially deadly to isolated tribespeople because they have no immunity to it, and such transmission is exactly what anthropologists and medical experts hope to avoid during contact. In case after case, contact has proved tragic as diseases like flu and measles decimated previously isolated tribes."
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blottsie writes:
Out of all the U.S. government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security is one of the least transparent. As such, the number of Freedom of Information Act requests it receives have doubled since 2008. But the DHS has only become more adamant about blocking FOIA requests over the years. The problem has become so sever that nothing short of an Edward Snowden-style leak may be needed to increase transparency at the DHS.
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PortWineBoy writes:
The Beeb is reporting that OkCupid is prompting Mozilla Firefox users to switch browsers over Brendan Eich's opposition to Prop 8 in California in 2008. Users are met with a message stating that OkayCupid would prefer no one access their site with Mozilla software. Eich is the new CEO of Mozilla.
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redletterdave writes:
The current leader in smart lights is Philips Hue Wi-Fi-enabled bulbs. But the competition just heated up last week, with both LG and Samsung unveiling new smart bulbs. Not that Philips is sitting idly by—the boss of intelligent bulbs also unveiled two new products: the Hue Lux LED bulb, a cheaper, stripped-down version of its pricey original, and the Philips Hue Tap, an add-on that lets you trigger lights by touch. But which company will win the battle to illuminate the connected home?
