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will.i.am believes he’s building the future’s voice-based operating system (yes, really)

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

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Will.i.am was sitting in a tight, grey conference room in San Francisco’s Moscone Center when he dropped a bomb on me: Not Amazon, nor Apple, nor Google, nor anyone had developed a real voice assistant… yet.

When will.i.am says he’s working on an assistant, I say I have one on my iPhone.

“No, you don’t,” he said. He grabbed his own phone from the table. “That’s a platform on iOS.” 

I’m meeting with him to learn about Omega, which he — like any confident entrepreneur — argues is far superior than its competitors. Yes, will.i.am believes he has the next big thing, and he’s not alone. There’s $117 million in fresh venture funding and a team of Amazon veterans with him. Read more…

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Apple’s Clips app gets a boatload of new AR and ‘Star Wars’ effects for iPhone X

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

You can now add Clips to the growing list of apps that are ready for the iPhone X.
Apple just announced its biggest update yet since it first released the social video app in April. The Clips app now features a redesigned iPhone X-ready interface, in…

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Make collaboration easier with this screen capture tool

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

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You don’t need a fancy camcorder and tripod to make a beautiful, seamlessly edited video. You don’t even need the newest smartphone on the market. All you really need is a computer – any computer.

From creating step-by-step tutorials for YouTube to sharing an important video chat with your loved ones, recording what’s on your screen is becoming more popular than ever. Fortunately, Movavi is here to help.

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Roku’s big strategy change paid off

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

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Roku stocks are soaring after the company nailed its first earnings report since going public earlier this fall.

While the set-top box maker is not quite profitable, it managed to post a smaller loss ($7.9 million) than Wall Street had expected ($12.7 million) thanks to especially strong revenue growth in ads and licensing its software. The company’s overall revenue grew to $125 million from $89 million in the same quarter last year.

The successful quarter follows a smooth initial public offering in September in which the decade-old company bucked an otherwise dismal market for tech public offerings. It also proved itself to be holding its own against big-name competitors in the space like Apple TV, Google Chromecast, and Amazon’s Fire TV. Read more…

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You can now add way older photos to your Instagram story

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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At long last, the 24-hour limit is no more. You can now upload photos to your Instagram Story that are up to a week old. 

When uploading a story, you can now swipe up on the screen and be shown a reel of all the photos you’ve taken in the past week (as opposed to those taken in the past 24 hours). 

Even after its public release, this feature may not change much about the Stories experience. As one user noted, it has always been easy to post older photos as Stories by screenshotting or editing them. 

The trick is to just slightly edit a photo and it becomes “new” and you can post

— Greg Baroth (@gbaroth) September 8, 2017 Read more…

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