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The Poke on Twitter: "Splendid letter from yesterday's @guardian. http://t.co/mi8eUWuTAK"

The Poke on Twitter: "Splendid letter from yesterday's @guardian. http://t.co/mi8eUWuTAK"
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Inside Alibaba’s Lavish IPO After-Party — Video! Audio! Photos! Shrimp! | Re/code

Inside Alibaba’s Lavish IPO After-Party — Video! Audio! Photos! Shrimp! | Re/code
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Inside Alibaba’s Lavish IPO After-Party — Video! Audio! Photos! Shrimp! | Re/code

Inside Alibaba’s Lavish IPO After-Party — Video! Audio! Photos! Shrimp! | Re/code
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YouTube Funding Original Content Again | Re/code

YouTube Funding Original Content Again | Re/code : The world’s biggest video site is paying people to make videos. Again. YouTube is planning to invest millions in some of�its biggest stars, in deals intended to create high-quality content for the site. The deals are also designed to encourage those stars to keep working on YouTube instead of migrating to other platforms.
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Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email provider paid $1.47 billion for the VKontakte

Peter Thiel’s Reefer Madness | Re/code : Leo Mirani and Gideon Lichfield, Quartz: “Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email provider, this morning announced that it has paid $1.47 billion for the 48 percent that it did not already own of VKontakte, Russia’s most popular social network. Mail.ru already owns Odnoklassniki, the second-most popular network. It’s as if Gmail (if it were an independent company) were to buy Facebook.”
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Peter Thiel’s Reefer Madness | Re/code

Peter Thiel’s Reefer Madness | Re/code : Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn has 100 production lines pumping out the latest iPhones around the clock and it’s still struggling to meet early demand. “We have been churning out 140,000 iPhone 6 Plus and 400,000 iPhone 6 every day — the highest daily output ever,” a source tells the Wall Street Journal. “But the volume is still not enough to meet the preorders.”
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This is Apple’s retail store gameplan for iPhone 6/Plus launch | 9to5Mac

This is Apple’s retail store gameplan for iPhone 6/Plus launch | 9to5Mac
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This is Apple’s retail store gameplan for iPhone 6/Plus launch | 9to5Mac

This is Apple’s retail store gameplan for iPhone 6/Plus launch | 9to5Mac : The big day is almost here. After months of speculation, a momentous keynote from Tim Cook, and record preorders, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will officially hit store shelve’s this Friday. Apple is going to great lengths to ensure that Friday runs smoothly for its customers and employees.
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Kantar Thinks that Apple's Holistic Approach to the Smartwatch Market is going to be a Winner - Patently Apple

Kantar Thinks that Apple's Holistic Approach to the Smartwatch Market is going to be a Winner - Patently Apple : Kantar believes that the "three key ingredients make smartwatches a mass-market opportunity: design, use case and price. If either of the first two is addressed, the third no longer matters. In other words, if you make it either beautiful or extremely useful, consumers will pay for it" – notes Carolina Milanesi, Chief Research & Head of US Business, ComTech.
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REPORT: US Soccer Head, Sunil Gulati, Refuses Gift $25k Watch While Sepp Blatter And Others Accept | 32 Flags

REPORT: US Soccer Head, Sunil Gulati, Refuses Gift $25k Watch While Sepp Blatter And Others Accept | 32 Flags : FIFA sponsor Parmigiani
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Rivals React to Apple’s New Smartwatch | Re/code

Rivals React to Apple’s New Smartwatch | Re/code : Misfit’s Sonny Vu acknowledged, “The Apple�Watch�is obviously the prettiest of the screen-based smartwatches�out there. I think Apple did in its first generation what Samsung has not been able to do in three generations. I love the scroll wheel —�brilliant!
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If Switzerland Is Fucked, Then The iWatch Is, Too | TechCrunch

If Switzerland Is Fucked, Then The iWatch Is, Too | TechCrunch : We know, thanks to the Federation Of The Swiss Watch Industry, that Swiss makers sold 28.1 million timepieces last year for a total of $23 billion. That’s an average of $836 a watch, but is skewed by the very cheap (Swatch) and the obscenely expensive (stuff like this.)
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BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity [Official Trailer] on Vimeo

BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity [Official Trailer] on Vimeo http://www.borntoflymovie.com/updates/ Elizabeth Streb is an action architect, movement visionary, and the founder of the STREB dance company.  In July 2012, at the age of 62, Elizabeth Streb strapped herself into a harness and walked down the face of a ten-story building. The close-up shots reveal this was not easy: her lips tighten, the veins in her neck bulge, but she continues to walk towards the pavement. Born in Rochester, NY in 1950, Streb was an adventurous child who loved to downhill ski, fast. After studying dance in college and riding her motorcycle across the country to California, Streb settled in New York City and began a decades long investigation into the possibilities of movement and physics.   In 2003, Streb established SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in a converted garage in Brooklyn, NY. With SLAM, Streb has created an innovative, multi-use space and a model of sustainability and communit
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Leaked nude photos of Lawrence, Upton headed to art gallery

Leaked nude photos of Lawrence, Upton headed to art gallery : As if Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton need their leaked nude photos displayed anywhere else. Cory Allen Contemporary Art announced that Los Angeles-based artist XVALA will include the pictures — unaltered and life-size — in an upcoming art gallery in St. Petersburg, Fla., as part of his "Fear Google" campaign. The upcoming show, opening Oct. 30, will be titled "No Delete," and will also include seven years worth of other leaked images of celebrities "in their most vulnerable and private moments, that were comprised by either hackers or the paparazzi," according to a press release. "We share our secrets with technology," said XVALA. "And when we do, our privacy becomes accessible to others." USATODAY FBI looking into leaked nude photos of Lawrence, Upton The artist has been using celebrity images as art for years, including a portrait of Britney Spears with her sha
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The Economist on Twitter: "The US educates brainy foreigners, then expels them. Student visas vs foreign workers visas http://t.co/GUuWwS7IA3 http://t.co/aB4leEUg7N"

The Economist on Twitter: "The US educates brainy foreigners, then expels them. Student visas vs foreign workers visas http://t.co/GUuWwS7IA3 http://t.co/aB4leEUg7N"
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OkCupid’s Unblushing Analyst of Attraction - NYTimes.com

OkCupid’s Unblushing Analyst of Attraction - NYTimes.com : Now Mr. Rudder has written a book, called “Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One’s Looking” (Crown), to be released this Tuesday, in which he argues for wider industry study of people’s online searches, social interactions, clicks, pics, posts and the like. While Google, Facebook and Microsoft already publish this kind of social science research, Mr. Rudder chronicles his own experience at OkCupid with the aim of encouraging smaller companies to do likewise — for the greater public good. “I realized I could use the data to examine taboos like race by direct introspection,” Mr. Rudder writes, describing how he tapped into aggregated information about OkCupid members to examine online interactions between white men and black women. “The data was sitting right there on our servers. It was an irresistible social opportunity.” This kind of limitless data-mining is possible because most sites, OkCupid included, have use poli
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Twitter Media Boss Katie Jacobs Stanton Interview | Re/code

Twitter Media Boss Katie Jacobs Stanton Interview | Re/code : In which of those pillars — television, sports or music — do you feel like Twitter has the greatest foothold right now? I guess the two that really stand out are television and sports. Twitter is the ultimate companion to television. When our founders created Twitter they didn’t necessarily create it as a complement or companion to television. What’s happened is that every day our users have been able to transform the service into this second screen experience while watching live TV because Twitter has a lot of those characteristics. It’s live, it’s public, it’s conversational, it’s mobile. Television is something really unique, really powerful about Twitter and we’ve obviously made a big investment in that whole experience. The second is sports. With the World Cup and the NFL you see more and more people tune into Twitter as they watch their favorite sports moments. They have conversations not [just] during the event, b
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How Music Can Improve Worker Productivity - Workstation - NYTimes.com

How Music Can Improve Worker Productivity - Workstation - NYTimes.com In biological terms, melodious sounds help encourage the release of  dopamine  in the reward area of the brain, as would eating a delicacy, looking at something appealing or smelling a pleasant aroma, said Dr.  Amit Sood , a physician of integrative medicine with the Mayo Clinic.  People’s minds tend to wander, “and we know that a wandering mind is unhappy,” Dr. Sood said. “Most of that time, we are focusing on the imperfections of life.” Music can bring us back to the present moment.  “It breaks you out of just thinking one way,” said  Teresa Lesiuk , an assistant professor in the music therapy program at the University of Miami.  Dr. Lesiuk’s research focuses on  how music affects workplace performance . In one study involving information technology specialists, she found that those who listened to music completed their tasks more quickly and came up with better ideas than those who didn’t, because the music impr
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Joseph Weisenthal on Twitter: "Bombshell new poll shows YES taking the lead in Scottish independence referendum. http://t.co/yPRWk8HfGu http://t.co/J6U5cEvRdb"

Joseph Weisenthal on Twitter: "Bombshell new poll shows YES taking the lead in Scottish independence referendum. http://t.co/yPRWk8HfGu http://t.co/J6U5cEvRdb"
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TV is increasingly for old people - The Washington Post

TV is increasingly for old people - The Washington Post : “The shift in demographic viewing is caused by a combination of factors�ranging from lower TV penetration rates of under-25 year old households to increasing use of time-shifting technologies in most under-55 year old households,” Nathanson wrote in a research report earlier this week.
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Poland 'is doomed' says Putin advisor - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland

Poland 'is doomed' says Putin advisor - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland : “They will be wiped out. Nothing will remain there. The heads of these dwarf states should think who they are,” Zhirinovsky, a deputy speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament (Duma) said in an astonishing outburst on the state-backed Russia 24 TV channel station on Monday. The 65 year-old leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, an opposition politician who is seen as a close ally of the Kremlin, said that the fate of Eastern Europe is in the hands of one man, Vladimir Putin. “All questions of war and peace in general and in particular those relating to Ukraine will be solved by one person, the head of the Russian Federation,” he said. “The Baltic States and Poland are doomed. They will be wiped out. Nothing will remain there,” Zhirinovsky said.
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Putin Blasts US War In Iraq

Putin Blasts US War In Iraq : No Western or Russian reporters were allowed to attend the Baker-Putin meeting - highlighting their sensitivity. � Only hours before Baker's arrival, Putin used a live question-and-answer session with Russian television viewers to issue some of his most stinging criticism of the Iraqi war to date. � "The use of force abroad, according to existing international laws, can only be sanctioned by the United Nations. This is the international law. Everything that is done without the UN Security Council's sanction cannot be recognised as fair or justified," said Putin. � "I am being as restrained as I can be when I choose these words," Putin added. � Putin described the United States as a partner but also stressed firmly that the Iraqi campaign should not be lumped in with the broader international war on terrorism - as Washington is doing. � "We do not want the United States to lose their war on terrorism. We are US par
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banksy on Twitter: "http://t.co/vNk6ZdYqM2"

banksy on Twitter: "http://t.co/vNk6ZdYqM2"
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Blatter challenges his critics to take the risk and stand for FIFA election — MercoPress

Blatter challenges his critics to take the risk and stand for FIFA election — MercoPress : �“Don’t speak — go out and fight, then you will see,” Blatter told reporters at his annual charity football tournament. “People, they say I should not be a candidate or I should not be elected — they can take the risk to be in the election.”
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Blatter praises club ban in Brazil after racism - SFGate

Blatter praises club ban in Brazil after racism - SFGate : "I've said football MUST be stronger in tackling racism," Blatter said on Twitter. "Brazil has sent the right message, banning a team from the Cup due to 'fans'�abuse." Wednesday's unprecedented ruling against a top Brazilian team came less than a week after a small group of Gremio fans called Santos goalkeeper Aranha a "monkey" and were caught on camera making monkey noises toward the player at the Arena Gremio in the southern city of Porto�Alegre. FIFA has been constantly promoting anti-racism campaigns and condemning acts of discrimination in football across the world, though it has not always been directly involved in handing out punishment to those involved in racial�abuse. After a series of incidents of racism in Brazil earlier this year, Blatter and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the World Cup in Brazil would take a stand against discrimination, though Blatter
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