Aug 04
As the Justice Department takes on affirmative action, it’s more important to understand what it is – and isn’t.
Aug 04
The adventure game Rime will be available on the Nintendo Switch soon, and Greybox, the company behind it, just gave us the release dates for both North America and Europe. The game is already available for PC gamers to download from Steam, and starting this upcoming November, it’ll also be available for Switch owners. Cost will depend on region. According … Continue reading
Aug 04
Motorola’s Moto Z2 Force couldn’t have asked for a better – or tougher – test over the last week, as it became my go-to phone on back to back events. The tl:dr? It’s an evolutionary follow-up to the first-gen Moto Z Force, for better and worse. Full disclosure, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Z’s raw and rugged … Continue reading
Aug 04
Massive streaming movie library goes live tomorrow for some public library users
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The massive streaming movie library Kanopy is about to expand its reach, adding both the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library to its roster of serviced libraries. This marks the latest expansion for the service, which is already offering access for Los Angeles Public Library cardholders and more, and gives anyone in the area free access to a … Continue reading
Aug 04
If you’re looking for a giant digital drawing display, but don’t have the money to spend on Microsoft’s lovely but expensive Surface Studio, Dell is ready to take your cash. The Dell Canvas, a massive, touch-sensitive 27-inch display, is now on sale….
Aug 04
The FCC got the go ahead for its rural broadband subsidy plan, Connect America Fund, in 2014. The fund — intended to bring high-speed internet access to the least served communities in the US — has since directed $170 million to New York, and AT&am…
Aug 04
LastPass announced a restructuring of its plan pricing and packaging today and the cost of its premium tier is doubling to $24 per year. Some features are also being taken away from the free plan. Those include unlimited sharing and emergency access,…
Aug 04
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to music while meditating but haven’t been sure where to start, Alexa is going to take care of that for you now. Amazon has updated its digital personal assistant with the ability to stream music from Amazon Music for specific activities. For example, you can ask Alexa to play music for meditation or for running and it’s going to oblige.
This functionality will only work with Amazon Music, though, so you need to be using Amazon’s own music streaming service. It won’t work with other streaming services that are supported by Alexa for conventional streaming.
Amazon says that this update enables Alexa to play music specific to more than 500 activities. This includes working out, meditating, falling asleep and even some exciting activities like “hooking up,” or “music for making babies.” Yes, those are actual activities that Amazon has defined.
Alexa can also take requests for specific genres related to activities so if you want to hear classical music while working out, you just need to ask Alexa and it’s going to play some classical music for you.
Just be sure to use Amazon Music. This latest Alexa feature is not going to work without it.
Alexa Can Now Stream Music Suited To Specific Activities , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 04
Facebook has cloned several Snapchat features for its services with Stories being chief among them. Instagram Stories actually has more daily users now than Snapchat’s entire user base combined. The same feature has also been expanded to WhatsApp and Facebook proper. While it was previously available to users on mobile only, Facebook has now confirmed that it’s testing Stories for desktop users.
The Facebook Stories feature is placed at the very top of the page in the mobile app but that’s not going to be the case with the web version. Desktop users will find Facebook Stories on the right side of the window where it’s not going to be as intrusive.
The feature itself is quite similar to Snapchat Stories. Users can post photos and videos to their Story throughout the day. All content is visible for 24 hours before it disappears for good automatically.
Facebook has confirmed that Stories is being rolled out to desktop users. However, the company is quick to point out that it’s still considering this rollout as a test at this point in time but notes that it’s going to be widely rolled out soon.
It remains to be seen if bringing Stories to the desktop is going to have an impact on the usage numbers for this feature. Stories has been a hit on Instagram but not so much on Facebook proper. It will be interesting to see if this latest move helps in that regard.
Facebook Stories For Desktop Confirmed , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 04
Snap, Inc., the company behind Snapchat, previously fielded an acquisition offer from Facebook. The social network is reported to have offered it $3 billion at the time. According to a new report, the company was offered a significantly more amount of money but a deal wasn’t reached. It’s claimed that Google bid $30 billion for Snap in early 2016.
Business Insider reports, citing sources close and inside Snap, that Google wanted to acquire the company for $30 billion. Google’s initial offer for the company was reportedly discussed before Snap raised a round of private funding that valued it at $20 billion.
One source suggests that Google and Snap talked about an acquisition just before the latter’s IPO in March. A representative for the company told Business Insider that with regards to a formal discussion about a buyout, “these rumors are false.”
Some of the investors and employees of Snap might be wishing that they had taken the offer because the company’s market cap has been in a steady state of decline since its IPO. Snap shares are currently trading around $12.50 which values the company at nearly $14 billion.
When Snap went public, it had a market cap of $24 billion. Investors haven’t really been excited about the company’s prospects so far even though this was perhaps one of the most highly anticipated tech IPOs in recent years.
Google Tried To Buy Snapchat For $30 Billion , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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