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His comments come a week after anti-immigration candidates won big in Italy.

The president seemed to endorse the idea less than two weeks ago

For DuVernay and Coogler, this is surely just the beginning.

Snapchat users can now @ tag their friends in their Story. There’s a new option in the popular app now that will detail the tagged user’s name, Bitmoji, handle, and Add button so that those who are viewing the story can add that person as well. The feature is similar to @ mentions that Instagram added back in November 2016.

Instagram introduced @ mentions to Stories in November 2016 not too long after it essentially cloned Snapchat’s Stories feature. It appears that Snapchat is now taking a page out of its rival’s book.

This feature lets users @ mention someone in the photos or videos that they capture using the Snapchat camera. They won’t see a type-ahead drop-down menu found on social networks like Twitter, though. When someone views their Snap, they will see a More option prompting them to swipe up. This will reveal the mentioned user’s profile information alongside an add button. The person who gets tagged in a story will receive a notification about it.

Snapchat has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is “testing” the @ tagging feature but hasn’t provided more details. So it’s unclear at this point in time if Snapchat will yank this feature if the test returns results that are not up to expectations. The test also appears to be limited to select users at this point in time.

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If you want Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant to do something for you all you need to do is say “Hey, Alexa” and it will wake up and start listening for a command. However, if you want to give multiple commands one after the other, it can be a nuisance to say “Hey, Alexa” over and over again before every command. Amazon has now made it easier to give follow-up commands to Alexa and speakers powered by the assistant will now be able to listen to back-to-back commands.

Users can now enable Alexa’s Follow-Up Mode which will ensure that the speaker continues to listen for a second command a few seconds after the first command is given. This will eliminate the need for users to say the “Hey, Alexa” hotword before every single command.

Amazon points out that Alexa won’t register the follow-up command until the assistant is “confident” that the user is speaking to it. This means that the user will have to clearly issue the command because if they don’t, Alexa probably won’t separate it from the background noise. Moreover, it won’t wait for follow-up commands if Alexa is streaming music or playing an audiobook.

Users also don’t have to worry about Alexa thinking that it has been given a follow-up command when they’re talking to someone else in the room. They can end their conversation with Alexa by simply saying “thank you,” “stop,” “cancel,” or “go to sleep.”

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