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With Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicking off in just a week, we’re frankly surprised the company is choosing to release any news ahead of time. Today, though, the firm posted a video showing some changes to Office Web apps. In particular, the preview indicates that these various apps will now support real-time co-authoring, with multiple users making changes at once (yep, just like Google Docs). That’s a nice, long-awaited improvement over the current setup, in which multiple users can make changes, but not alongside one another. According to Microsoft, this set of features will roll out over “the next several months.” For now, we’ve got the video preview embedded after the break. And don’t be put off by the 14-minute length; the demo doesn’t actually begin until five and a half minutes in.

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Waze, the crowd-sourced traffic mapping app, is one of Gadget Lab’s favorite apps for successfully navigating around the morass of Bay Area traffic. Today the app one-ups itself with the ability for trusted community members to update maps in real …

Twitter’s pretty often enhancing its microblogging platform by adding plenty of new features, and the latest changes could very well be among the most useful ones. Via its Engineering Blog, Twitter has gone into detail about how it has improved search within its social network, noting that a “real-time computation” system has been built to help “identify search queries as soon as they’re trending, send these queries to real humans to be judged, and then incorporate the human annotations into our back-end models.” What this means, essentially, is you’ll now be able to learn more about what the service’s millions (and millions) of users are talking about, helping you discover what the most popular topics are all about — you know, something like #notimpressed or #tigerblood. The company’s blog post is rather thorough on how the search improvements work, so be sure to hit the source link below if you’d like to learn a little more about the recent tweaks.

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YouTube’s video editing suite is officially a toddler in human years, so it’s about time that it grew a little more beyond learning how to walk and talk. By far the most conspicuous sign of maturity is a new real-time preview that shows edits and filter options as you play — you’ll now know if that effects filter at 1:37 is festive or just gaudy. The overall interface is also a little more buttoned-down with a simpler interface that cuts back on unnecessary clutter. YouTube has been rolling out the editor update in recent hours and may have wrapped up by the time you’re reading this, which we’d take as a cue to start producing that streaming masterpiece.

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