Microsoft today released an updated Cortana app for iOS, which features an overhauled interface and new features like music and podcasts support. For those unfamiliar with Cortana, it is Microsoft’s version of Siri or Alexa, an AI-based…
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Google is giving its business customers a new way to reach their customers. The company is today starting the rollout of a revamped Google My Business mobile application for iOS and Android that will offer new tools for viewing…
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The rise of smartphone cameras and social media in recent years has fuelled a new level of marking and sharing memories using photos, but one startup is betting that people are prepared to go the next level and spend money to hire…
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As journalists, we spend a lot of time transcribing audio recordings into text that is then used for articles. We’re not the only ones with this problem though – academics and researchers, students, and even people who…
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Photo-messaging app Snapchat has introduced two new features – Friendship Profiles and Bitmoji Stories in an attempt to make the app more interactive and fun. With Friendship Profiles, Snapchat would hold content like images, videos,…
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Uber’s new loyalty program incentivizes you not to check Lyft or the local competitor. Riders earn points for all the money they spend on Uber and Uber Eats that score them $5 credits, upgrades to nicer cars, access to premium support, and…
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The Facebook-owned messaging platform is bringing in many new features via updates. We already saw that users will start seeing ads in between statuses similar to the ads that appear between the Instagram Stories. Now, it looks like there…
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Here’s something I didn’t expect to read today. The U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed Snap for details on its IPO apparently in connection with a lawsuit from disgruntled shareholders who claim…
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Legal, real-money betting is spreading around the United States, and may be available in the majority of the country within a year or two. It’s up to each state to enact the proper legislation to make it happen, but a few have…
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Pandora’s podcast genome project, which aims to do for podcasts what its music genome project did for music, has launched in public beta. The new initiative hopes to introduce listeners to podcasts they might enjoy based on prior listening…
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For us jaded adults, the long-running trend towards making apps and games free to download but stuffing them with paid options is just an annoyance or perhaps a logical progression of the business model. But kids haven’t developed our…
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  WhatsApp the world’s famous instant online messaging app has confirmed that it is going to clear the history of chat and data for all the users from Monday onwards. It has been highly recommended to all the users to back up their media…
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If you have been waiting for Microsoft to release an LTE version of its Surface Go, you’ll be happy to know you can pre-order the hybrid now. The company plans to officially release the Surface Go on 20 November in the US and Canada, with…
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  Netflix is reportedly about to test lower prices in some markets, according to Bloomberg, which spoke to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. The thing is, details are light right now, with the CEO not confirming whether prices would be lowered in…
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  Chappy, the dating app for gay men, has today announced a partnership with GLAAD. As part of the partnership, Chappy will make a donation to GLAAD for each conversation initiated on the dating app, from now throughout 2019. The company…
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Hindu nationalism and the plummeting cost of mobile phone data services are driving the explosive growth of fake news in India, according to a new study that suggests WhatsApp is struggling to limit the spread of online disinformation on…
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  In brief: Firefox’s Test Pilot program has acted as the proving grounds for a wide variety of interesting features for some time now. The latest example of this trend is ‘Price Wise,’ a Mozilla-made beta extension that can track price…
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For kids growing up in today’s cashless society, the piggy bank is going virtual. Father of two Roland Hall turned to a British startup’s digital pocket money app because his kids were still too young to get bank cards from traditional…
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In three years, the Uber Eats restaurant food delivery service has grown from an experiment to serving much of the US and major cities worldwide. By year’s end, the ride-hailing company says it will cover 70 percent of the US population…
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Facebook has launched a video app called Lasso that enables users to make and share short-format videos with filters and special effects. The app can be considered a Facebook version of the TikTok app that has become quite popular in the…
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