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YouTube junkies are probably familiar with a mysterious glitch in the video platform's view-count system; a new video will show up all over the web, clearly going viral, but the view count is stuck at 301. Why 301

In an attempt to improve email address privacy, Facebook has screwed up big time in what seems like a self-serving attempt to increase usage of @facebook.com email addresses that direct to your Facebook Messages Inbox.

You will no longer be able to sync your tweets to your LinkedIn profile. In a blog post, LinkedIn explained that it will turn off its tweet stream, which has been available for the past two-and-a-half years ...

Research in Motion, the BlackBerry device maker seeking a comeback after falling behind Apple and Google in the smartphone market, has been found liable for $147.2 million in damages

“Once a darling of Web 2.0, Digg Inc. has been sold to Betaworks, which will combine the site with News.me. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was sold for only $500,000, a stunning fall for a startup once valued at more than $160 million.”

What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition.

A federal judge has ruled that investigators can go through your Facebook profile if one of your friends gives them permission to do so .. courts struggle to define privacy and civil liberties in the age of social media.

Microsoft's 25-year-old logo just got a facelift. As of today, customers will begin to see the company's new trademark throughout Microsoft's websites and on new TV ads.

The jury has ruled that Samsung did violate some Apple patents. Though the full ruling has yet to be announced

So says Owen Thomas of Business Insider, who reports that the informal – and as of yet unconfirmed – iPhone ban is part of an effort to bring the Facebook Android app up to date. "Facebook management realizes its Android app is subpar – and believes that the only way employees will take fixing it seriously is if they have to deal with its issues day in, day out," Thomas writes. "It's a practice called 'dogfooding,' from the phrase 'eating your own dog food.' " Thomas attributes his report to a "handful of ex-Facebookers and others familiar with Facebook's plans" – Facebook, for its part, is staying mum. So take the whole thing with a grain of salt. But it does make sense that Facebook would want to keep tweaking its Android application, which has been called "terrible" and "shoddy" and even (our favorite) "horri-bad." There's a big push to do more with mobile at Facebook – it's a "mobile first" strategy, the Times reported recently. Horizons readers will remember that this week Facebook rolled out a new native iOS app, which reportedly runs twice as fast as previous iterations, and allows users to instantly load photos and News Feed items. "We’ve rebuilt the app from the ground up, so now the app opens much faster and your news feed and notifications load right when you open Facebook," Facebook product manager Mick Johnson wrote yesterday.

The iPhone 5 boasts a bigger screen, faster processor, and a new connector. But it is worth your hard-earned dollars? Bigger Screen The body of the iPhone 5 has been elongated, adding about a quarter inch to the screen height without changing the width. This will allow for HD video to display in its true 16:9 format and give game designers more real estate to work with. While the body is longer, the iPhone 5 is 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S — and 20% lighter.

Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air.

There is more uncomfortable news for people concerned about the privacy of their e-mail accounts...

CNN's Brian Todd gets behind the wheel of Googles "self-driving car."

Boston Dynamics just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.

It's time to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act passed in 1986, which is outdated, and doesn't reflect the realities of the Internet, networks and computers in 2013.

A divided Supreme Court halted a legal challenge Tuesday to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans’ electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.

Facebook, a $68 billion company that is constantly seeking ways to monetize its users and their personal data.

Yahoo spokesperson Lauren Armstrong also issued the same statement to Mashable on Wednesday, when asked about the company's new policy: "We don't discuss internal matters..."

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