Users rejoice! As of 2018, you’ll no longer have to sit through YouTube’s most frustrating ads. Skip this ad…never YouTube’s dreaded 30-second unskippable ads are like the reverse unicorns of the streaming video-verse: everybody’s encountered them, and everyone wishes they hadn’t. You know the feeling: you’ve found the video you’re looking for. You’ve clicked play […]
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Twitter’s ongoing effort to shake it’s reputation as a haven for trolls and abusers has taken the next step. First, they put bad behaviour accounts on time out, and now they’re refining the blocking system. Going further As pointed out earlier in the week, Twitter has started putting accounts that breach abuse rules into the
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WhatsApp has launched Status, a new feature seemingly inspired by Snapchat. Snappy time Status lets you add text, drawings, and emoji to your photos, videos and GiFs and share with your contacts. Status updates disappear within 24 hours. The feature works in a similar way to Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories, however Status updates are encrypted
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While your social feeds might be cluttered with stylish food pics, fast food is no lightweight when it comes to satisfying customers' appetite for digestion. A new study from Facebook shows how fast food and mobile are a match made in deep-fried digital heaven. Burger with the lot Facebook IQ divided fast food aficionados into two categories:
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Beam me up, Google. Whilst it's not quite ready to handle galactic transportation, Google Home can now purchase items at your command. Buy in Using Google Assistant (a feature of Google Home), you're now able to issue voice commands to buy things from retailers signed up with Google Express. These include Costco, Bed Bath and
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Using innovative mobile green screen technology, Blin.gy puts users into their favourite music videos. Making sweet music (videos) If the popularity of musical.ly is anything to go by (130 million users, 12 million videos uploaded daily), young mobile users love making music videos. A new release from the creators of Chosen (an app which lets
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At the recent Facebook F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook's 10 year plan which clearly laid out how Facebook's own properties and acquisitions are going to be steered in the coming months and years. Instead of competing with each other as they are today, Facebooks' Family of Apps will each be fulfilling their own unique
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Less than a year after a redesign of Snapchat Discover propelled it into a new realm, a new focus on Shows looks set to take the platform towards the premium video content market. Showing up the competition Discover is where professional publishing houses curate regularly released content in magazine style formats. As the video-based component
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LinkedIn has announced a veritable goodie-bag of updates for data-inclined Premium members. Dive deep Both subscription options, Premium Career and Premium Business, get meaty new metrics. Premium Career members now have access to personalised insights from LinkedIn Jobs. This includes showing your connections at a hiring company, the team you might be working with, which
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Google has released two new communication tools for business users: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. Chatbots Hangouts Meet lets you video conference with colleagues around the globe. Meet is integrated with G Suite, so participants can join the call directly from a Calendar or Gmail invite. While G Suite Enterprise customers get a dedicated dial-in
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