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Anger mounts over Facebooks news feed experiment, company denies wrongdoing

2014-06-30 19:41:39| Extremetech

Facebook's admission that it manipulated news feeds to measure how it would impact user response is kicking up a great deal of controversy -- and the company doesn't seem to understand the problem.

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Facebook researcher defends controversial psychology experiment on users

2014-06-30 14:12:12| InfoWorld: Top News

A Facebook researcher behind a controversial psychology experiment on users has defended it, stating that the research aimed to investigate a common concern that seeing friends post positive content on the social networking website leads people to feel negative or left out.

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Google Chrome's experiment with killing URLs appears to be on hold

2014-06-11 16:52:25| InfoWorld: Top News

Google appears to be backing away from its somewhat controversial experimental feature for the Chrome browser that hid full Web addresses from users. Dubbed the Origin Chip, the new feature condenses the Web address of the page you're viewing into a small tile on the far left of Chrome's address bar.

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Georgia marsh experiment catalogs threats from sea level rise

2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Savannah Now: In a stretch of marsh along the Altamaha River near Darien on Thursday, with 18-wheelers barreling by on nearby Interstate 95, researchers wove their way through a maze of narrow boardwalks to tend their new, long-term field experiment. Each in a straw hat to protect from the fierce noonday sun, students and a technician added salty water to one small plot, measured the plant growth in a neighboring area and captured gasses for analysis. Their aim is to chronicle the effects of sea level rise...

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