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Twitter transparency report: Account info requests up 46%, still no national security breakdown

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by on July 31, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter has published its fifth transparency report, revealing that the number of requests it receives from different countries around the world is continuing to climb, up 46 percent since its last report in February. In total, it said 2,058 requests for account information had been received from 54 different countries between January and June this year, which includes 8 countries that had never previously lodged requests. Additionally, it received 432 requests to remove content (from 31 countries, including 3 new ones) and 9,199 copyright takedown requests for Twitter and Vine posts. While these numbers might seem relatively small compared to the…

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The best programming language for you to learn

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by on July 31, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Roger Huang is an entrepreneur who is working on his next venture, and advising several others on growth. This post originally appeared on Code(Love). A few people have asked me what would be the most useful or best coding language to learn. Skipping aside HTML/CSS—I think the answer rests on what you want to do with code. A quick rundown Javascript and its frameworks are really useful for building something with just one language. Angular.js can control the front side of the website that displays to your users. Node.js will act as a Web server that can host all of your content. Express.js…

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BBM for Windows Phone 8 beta is now available for anyone to download

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by on July 31, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Mobile, Product Updates

Following a brief stint in private beta, BlackBerry has today announced that its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app is now available for all Windows Phone 8 users. The company said it has tried to pick up on Windows Phone’s own specific UI design, so the app looks a little different compared to its incarnation on other platforms, although it does obviously provide many of the same core features found on the iOS and Android apps. You can check out a full walkthrough of the Windows Phone 8 beta build for more details on the differences. ➤ BBM on the Windows Phone Store | Via Inside BlackBerry…

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Timeful for iPhone uses behavioral science to make your calendar and to-do list smart

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by on July 31, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Timeful has launched as an iOS app that draws on academic research from Stanford and Duke to add artificial intelligence to your mobile calendar. The startup is the creation of Stanford Computer Science professor Yoav Shoham, Duke Psychology and Behavioral Economics professor Dan Ariely, and Stanford PhD candidate Jacob Bank. After collaborating on a research project, the three decided to use their findings to build a product. The app combines a to-do list with your calendar. As it learns your schedule, it can automatically prioritize and allocate tasks in your free time. Timeful has created an “Intention Genome” that classifies the types of…

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Distiller is now a social network for whisky lovers

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by on July 31, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Back in February, we brought you news on Distiller, an iPhone app that’s striving to be the ultimate whisky-drinker’s companion. Distiller analyzes tens-of-thousands of data points across flavors, price, reputation and more, then delivers personalized whisky recommendations from around the world. It later arrived for Android too. Today, Distiller is expanding beyond a simple recommendation engine into a fully fledged social network for whisky drinkers, where fans of a dram can hang out, swap notes, share favorites and learn about a multitude of different malts. How it looks You’ll now see your own dedicated activity feed alongside a whisky notes…

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