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    Twitter's Tailored Trends and Two Other Stories You Need to Know

    By Stan Schroeder | Mashable – Wed, Jun 13, 2012

    Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.

    Twitter Announces Tailored Trends

    [More from Mashable: The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media]

    Twitter has announced it has improved its algorithms to display tailored trends to users, based on their location and who they're following on Twitter.

    The tailored trends will appear to users by default on Twitter's web site as well as Twitter's mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Users who want to revert back to the "standard" trend list can do so by changing their location on twitter.com.

    [More from Mashable: Hands-On First Impressions of iOS 6]

    This new feature will gradually be rolled to users starting today.

    Apple's Mac Pro to Get a Redesign in 2013

    Apple has confirmed its professional-grade desktop computer line, the Mac Pro, will get a redesign, which will "likely be released in 2013."

    Apple's iMac might be due for a redesign as well, although that hasn't been officially confirmed, possibly because Apple plans to release new iMacs this year.

    UK Reopens Investigation Into Google Street View

    UK's data regulator has reopened its investigation into Google's Street View, which has been subject to scrutiny after it was revealed Google's vehicles collected payload WiFi data from unsuspecting users.

    Google has maintained that the data was collected inadvertently, but a recent investigation by the FCC found a Google engineer has done so on purpose. Now, the British Information Commissioner's Office wants Google to explain why it hadn't provided more information earlier.

    Image courtesy of iStockphoto, mattjeacock

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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