Tyler Becker
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Amazon's Alexa gets Google Calendar support; Google Home adds multi-user recognition
Amazon adds Google Calendar support for Alexa; Google Home now supports multiple users and voices; The voice technology and voice assistant ecosystem continues to evolve and improve with these updates and more. → Read More
In Facebook's Future, You and Your Friends Will "Virtually" Hang Out, Travel, Shop, and More
"Spending time with friends and family creates many of our most meaningful memories, but it’s impossible to always be physically near the people we care about." → Read More
5 Industry Experts Share Their Top Advice for Creating VR Content
Virtual reality isn't just for big budgets. Hardware is becoming more accessible, and there are new opportunities for small businesses to enter the world of VR, and even create VR content for individuals to consume. → Read More
5 Minute Distraction: Poor, Little Furby Crushed by Hydraulic Press
Ah, yes… The Furby. Once an American icon, and now? The latest, funniest thing crushed by a hydraulic press. The robotic-hamster-owl-horrible-creature-hybrid toy was released in 1998, and over 40 million Furbies were sold during the three years of its original production. Well, times have changed, and we care more about crushing Furbies than playing with them. While the video above is the main… → Read More
AI for Kids: Mattel's "Aristotle" and Its Impact on Future Generations
Mattel, an American toy company, is creating an artificially intelligent home assistant for kids and families called Aristotle. It can talk, record video, place orders, and perhaps develop the next generation of humans into better communicators. → Read More
"PRIMO" is 1-Click Shopping, but for Anyone, Anywhere at Anytime
Up until now you were able to buy things online or in store, but PRIMO wants you to buy anything, anywhere immediately. → Read More
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals His Self-Built, AI Home System "Jarvis" in Funny Demo Video
Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal project is here, and he demonstrates it for the first time in a funny demo video. Not to mention the incredible celebrity voice cameo. → Read More
Instagram's New "Saved Posts" Feature Allows You to Revisit Things Later
The new feature will allow users to tap a small "bookmark" icon to save posts for later. Saved posts will go to a new, private tab within your profile section in Instagram. → Read More
Live 360° Video is Coming to Facebook
Live 360° video is coming to Facebook, which will combine the real-time excitement of live video, and the immersive experience of 360° content. The program is starting small for now, but is expected to expand to all Pages at some point in 2017. → Read More
Pardon the Headline, But You Have to Watch YouTube's 2016 Rewind Video
YouTube Rewind 2016 is here! Celebrate the videos, people, music and moves that made 2016. → Read More
Coming Soon to Instagram: Shoppable Photos
Instagram is testing shoppable posts with a small group of iOS users in the United States. The posts will feature up to five products, and tapping them will tell you more about each, and eventually drive you to the product's website. → Read More
Slack Reaches 4 Million Daily Active Users, and Half are Outside North America
Slack continues to grow, and their global footprint is expanding too. → Read More
Why Instagram is Bringing Stories to the Explore Section
More than 100 million people visit Explore every day to discover photos and videos from people they don’t yet follow, and now Instagram Stories will appear at the top of that section. → Read More
LinkedIn Restructures "Endorsements" with More Relevant, Data-Focused Features
"LinkedIn will also use machine learning and its own data to ask users to endorse the connections they are closest with." → Read More
BuzzFeed and Twitter to Partner Up for Live TV-Style Election Coverage
"Live video is a new type of journalism... the audience is part of the narrative, they’re able to give their feedback constantly.” → Read More
Facebook at Work finally arrives, and it's called "Workplace"
“We’re going to grow Workplace like Instagram and Messenger.” → Read More
Facebook is digitalizing garage sales with its new "Marketplace"
Facebook's new "Marketplace" will allow people to discover, buy, and sell products from one another. It will have a dedicated icon within the Facebook mobile app, and if the new product resonates well with people, we could see Pages and businesses selling items on there too. → Read More
Instagram Introduces "Save as Draft" Feature
It's a feature that Instagram users have waited a long time for. → Read More
WhatsApp Adds User Tagging to Group Chats
WhatsApp just added a feature to group chats that allows users to tag each other and automatically send them a notification that they've been tagged in the conversation. → Read More
Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, Videos, and GIFs Towards Your Character Count
Twitter just announced photos, videos, and other forms of media within Tweets will no longer take up those pesky 23 characters. → Read More