Thursday, November 17, 2016

Vine's co-founders launch feature-packed streaming service named Hype and other top stories.

  • Vine's co-founders launch feature-packed streaming service named Hype

    Vine's co-founders launch feature-packed streaming service named Hype
    Live streaming video is a crowded market place, with products from the likes of Twitter and Facebook already killing off one early pioneer, Meerkat. But the co-founders of Vine don’t seem deterred by this (or the recent death of the app they sold to Twitter), and have now launched Hype: a video app that turns live-streaming into show and tell. Hype’s main selling point is that it has a bunch of multimedia features and options that go beyond the usual live streaming experience. Audience members ..
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  • I want a Microsoft Surface Studio monitor

    I want a Microsoft Surface Studio monitor
    Microsoft's beautiful Surface Studio is a PC that's much more than an all-in-one. While you can do all the regular PC things you'd expect from a Windows PC, it's really the screen that makes it different from a regular computer. It's a screen that folds down to transform the PC into a drawing board, designed for stylus, touch, and new Dial input. It's unlike any regular all-in-one PC we've seen before, but I want to turn any laptop into a Surface Studio. As speculation mounted over Microsoft's ..
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  • LastPass Multi-Device Access Now Free: You Can Now Manage Passwords Across Devices Without Spending A Dime

    LastPass Multi-Device Access Now Free: You Can Now Manage Passwords Across Devices Without Spending A Dime
    LastPass' multi-device support, a feature that has probably driven most of its premium subscribers to upgrade, has just been made free. Now, LastPass passwords are instantly available to PC, laptop, tablet and smartphones for all users.  ( LastPass ) Password managers are becoming more indispensable today as websites, applications and platforms require increasingly complex passwords that are certainly impossible to remember. LastPass wants to stand above the gaggle of these appli..
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  • Phil Schiller justifies the compromises of the MacBook Pro

    Phil Schiller justifies the compromises of the MacBook Pro
    In an interview with The Independent, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller looked back at last week’s Apple event and justified some of the decisions behind the new MacBook Pro. Let’s go through the new information in this interview. Schiller is saying that the MacBook Pro is the fastest selling pro laptop from Apple. “And we are proud to tell you that so far our online store has had more orders for the new MacBook Pro than any other pro notebook before,” Schiller told The Independ..
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  • Alphabet's Google moves to upgrade app store

    Alphabet's Google moves to upgrade app store
    By Julia Love | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Inc's Google is redoubling efforts to help developers of Android mobile apps build their businesses as concerns mount that the app economy has reached saturation.Under the leadership of Sameer Samat, who rejoined Google earlier this year after a spell as president of wearable tech firm Jawbone, the company is sharpening Google Play store recommendations with artificial intelligence and expanding support for various payment platforms, amon..
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  • Microsoft Teams launches to take on Slack in the workplace

    Microsoft Teams launches to take on Slack in the workplace
    At an event in New York City today, Microsoft officially launched its Microsoft Teams competitor to Slack. The announcement, by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, comes just minutes after Slack published a warning letter to the software giant about competing with it. Microsoft is launching its Teams software as a service that ties into its existing Office 365 subscriptions. In a video demonstrating Microsoft Teams, the software maker describes the service as a chat-based workspace that's focused on r..
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  • Uber just streamlined the hell out of its app

    Uber just streamlined the hell out of its app
    Uber is rolling out a major redesign of its app today — the most significant update since 2012. The changes, which are only for users and not drivers, are supposed to offer a much cleaner interface, less confusion around which service to request, and shortcut options to frequent destinations. The new app, which The Verge saw during a media briefing and product demo earlier this week, does appear to be much easier to use. (For instance, even small details such as the color of a driver’s car are..
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  • Facebook Profit Soars, but Growth Concerns Emerge

    Facebook Profit Soars, but Growth Concerns Emerge
    Facebook Inc., now on pace to reach $27 billion in revenue this year, is defying the slowdown in growth that usually comes with increasing size. The social media giant said Wednesday that third-quarter revenue soared 56% to $7 billion and its quarterly profit nearly tripled to $2.38 billion, as it reaps the spoils of its dominance in mobile...
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  • Google Pixel Charging Speeds Confirmed: Only Pixel XL Charges With 18W, Pixel Restricted At 15W

    Google Pixel Charging Speeds Confirmed: Only Pixel XL Charges With 18W, Pixel Restricted At 15W
    Google has now made it clear that the Pixel is limited to 15W of charging and that only the Pixel XL can go for 18W using the stock USB-PD charger. How The Charging Speeds Were Found Out A recognized tester in the Android community, Nathan K. discovered this discrepancy by way of extensive tests. After uncovering it, he emphasizes that the restriction will "likely have no functional impact on the use of the Sailfish." "Practically speaking, this will have ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on your daily use...
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  • Boosted tells people to stop riding its electric skateboards after battery malfunctions

    Boosted tells people to stop riding its electric skateboards after battery malfunctions
    Samsung isn't the only tech company having problems with flaming batteries. Boosted, the maker of some of the better electric skateboards on the market, has warned customers to stop riding and charging its second-generation devices after two separate incidents in which lithium-ion batteries were found to have "vented" inside their enclosures. Nobody was injured and no property was damaged in the incidents, Boosted says, but in a warning posted on its official site it requests that owners move t..
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