Latest and Breaking Internet News and Top Stories - July 4
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Researchers say the study was not funded by Minerva Research Initiative, which engaged scientists in national security issues Facebook and Cornell researchers have denied that the controversial emotion contagion experiment was funded by ...
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Online deliveries grew by a fifth in May, according to the latest IMRG research. But while deliveries are continuing to grow fast, it seems many UK consumers have yet to learn about alternative delivery methods such as lockerbanks and th...
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The main site struggled with internal server issues on Friday morning as web searches were returned with an error message Googles search website suffered an intermittent outage on Friday morning that prevented users from conducting searc...
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The foundation of customer segmentation and prediction depends upon a few incontrovertible truths. It’s sexist, ageist, nationist, locationist and most certainly spendist. ‘Ists’, stereotypes and assumptions are some of the best tools in...
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Naked Wines has reported 40% growth in its latest financial year, sending turnover past the £50m milestone. The wine pureplay, which underpins wine retail with social media while also crowdfunding to finance independent winemakers, said ...
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Open thread : Professor Green has announced he's "had his fill" of Twitter and erased his timeline. Can you nominate music's best tweeters and provide him with some inspiration? Professor Green announced this week that he had "had h...
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La Senza’s ecommerce website has been put on hold while administrators look for a buyer for its stores. Its owner, Marnixheath, was put into administration on Wednesday. The news comes just over two years since La Senza UK, then under di...
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China's Internet giants and insurance companies are finding ever more innovative ways to get around the country's strict betting laws and reap a payout as fans wager billions on the World Cup.
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Superfans recreate a Westeros wedding, a dancing groom surprises his bride and Nick Kyrgios fires a cheeky shot Game of Thrones fans may be mourning the end of series four, but they are finding new inventive ways to keep the spirit of We...
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Join us on Friday 11 July between 12:00 and 1:30pm to discuss the dos and don'ts of social media, how charities can get ahead and how to choose a channel that is right for you 10 years on: what role will social media play? Five social me...
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Lots of people are up in arms about the recent revelation that Facebook manipulated news feeds in the name of research. But we need to look at the bigger picture of the future of digital research Between the high-profile cases of fraud a...
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Google's removal of search results in Europe is drawing accusations of press censorship, as stories from some of the continent's most prominent news outlets begin vanishing. The U.S. internet giant said Thursday it is getting 1,000 reque...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publishes rare editorial note after outcry over manipulation of Facebook content The scientific journal that published a study by Facebook and two US universities examining people's online ...
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The scientific journal that published a controversial Facebook experiment on mood manipulation said Thursday it was concerned that the company did not follow scientific ethics and principles of informed consent.
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More than 70,000 people have already asked Google to delete links about them under Europe's "right to be forgotten" ruling, with some of the world biggest news sites the first to be hit.
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If you're wondering what it would have been like for those 689,000 guinea pigs who had their emotions manipulated by that controversial Facebook News Feed experiment ? Well now you can. Sort of. With more than a hint of sarcasm, one deve...
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Ruling that allows people to request removal from search results gives Google a huge policing role it doesn't seem to want The "right to be forgotten" has created a right old headache for Google and for publishers alike. As a r...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Access to online services such as messaging app Line and photo-sharing site Flickr was disrupted in China this week, a step that anti-censorship groups said was carried out by the government to block information about...
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Sheryl Sandberg fails to realise that what she simply considers Facebook's "poor communication" about its psychological experiments ( Facebook apologises for experiments on users , 2 July) was an ethical violation of ...
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Google says the number of requests from people seeking to have some search results removed in Europe has jumped to 70,000 by the end of June.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The identity numbers of around 900,000 Danes, widely used as a means of identification in telephone transactions with banks or medical services, were mistakenly made available on the internet for almost an hour on ...
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No more having to reach into your pocket to message someone back via Facebook while browsing on the iPad, thanks to the universal build now available. Facebook today updated the standalone Facebook Messenger app for iOS to version 7.0, a...
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The future of an open Internet faces threats from government crackdowns, and "balkanization" resulting from growing concerns over broad electronic surveillance, a survey of experts showed Thursday.
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Chrome plugin lets users experience the controversial research which explored whether negative or positive emotions spread to other users Thought you missed out on having your emotions tweaked by Facebooks mood manipulation back in 2012?...
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Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users
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ITV boss claims those who predicted digital would kill viewing were wrong, saying there is a strong appetite for quality shows ITVs director of television has said that those who predicted digital technology would kill viewing were wrong...
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Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people a right to be "forgotten" in search engines, it emerged on Thursday.
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With nearly 40% of its online sales visits coming from mobile, fashion retail brand Zalando has launched apps for Android and Apple OS to tap into this consumer mood shift. “More and more people are using mobile to browse and shop online...
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Google joined Microsoft, Mellanox, Broadcom and Arista Networks to launch the 25G Ethernet Consortium, an open industry body that aims to push 25G (single link) and 50G (double link) protocols in datacenters. The current industry standar...
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Soon-to-be-launched m-payments play Zapp has extended its merchant reach with the partnerships with three leading online payment providers. Secure Trading, TrustPay Global and Checkout.com will all work to support Zapp and it’s innovativ...
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Organisations are starting to use supercomputers on demand via public cloud to access HPC capabilities
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Search company extends bans on pornography ads across its network, while conservative US pressure groups claim credit Google has enforced a block on adverts that promote "sexually explicit content" from its advertising network ...
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Who knows what's hot in social media? Here at MIT, Chris Peterson can tell you a thing or two (or three). As Senior Counselor for Web Communications in MIT's Undergraduate Admissions Office, Peterson oversees the MIT Admissions Blog. He ...
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Deal means 65,000 eBay sellers are expected to offer goods for collection at UK Argos stores by the end of the year Argos is extending its tie-up with online marketplace eBay to enable online shoppers to pick up goods at 650 stores as th...
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Monika Bickert has defended the site's experimentation, saying it is necessary to ensure the site keeps improving Facebooks head of policy, Monika Bickert, has claimed that the company's emotion experiments were innovation and a necessar...
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Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure
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What does Facebook's experiment mean for you?. Facebook has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons: last week it emerged that nearly a quarter of a million users' news feeds were deliberately manipulated to see if such manipulation ...
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The University at Buffalo's dean of School of Social Work has canceled advertising for her Facebook pages and urged others to considering switching to other social media sites after Facebook carried out an "unethical" mood manipulation e...
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Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.
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Assistant governor of Australia's central bank said it would be similar to Scotland's period of free banking in the 18th and 19th centuries An independent Scotland could be the perfect testbed for whether a nation can survive using crypt...
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Catch all the action from today’s Jumpstart Revolver event via our live broadcast. The Jumpstart Revolver is a new event full of fast paced, best practice presentations straight from the IRTV studio. Today we’re covering two key topics t...
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With London’s booming financial services sector the biggest in the world, the UK Fintech Industry Summit 2014 considered the prospects for startups elsewhere in Britain
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The physical location of data will be irrelevant by 2020, replaced by a combination of location criteria such as legal, political and logical concerns
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And Google is making a nonsense of their ruling Further to James Ball's piece yesterday, "Guardian articles hidden by Google" , other publishers are reporting more examples of "notice of removal" messages from the sea...
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Catalogue chain Argos combines its high-street presence with stock accuracy and a single sales platform for a shopping model as compelling for online and mobile as it is for traditional channels
