Concur integrates HotelTonight and Lyft for business trips with less hassle

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Business trips are often a last minute thing, leaving you tight for time between meetings, getting organized and your travel. Recognizing this, last minute accommodation provider HotelTonight, integrated travel and expense management app Concur and car service Lyft have teamed up to make those trips as pain free as possible. Combining the three on-demand services in the Concur app will allow business travellers to book transport and accommodation and manage flights and expenses in one place. While the Concur app is free to download, your company will need to be a Concur customer for you to avail of its service. The…

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Gett expands beyond just taxis in London, but only if you need £50 champagne in a hurry

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Gett, the company that used to want to take you from A to B with its ride-hailing service, now wants to bring you champagne on demand too, provided you live in certain parts of London. Announced today and facilitated by a partnership with Veuve Clicquot, from tomorrow you’ll be able to get a bottle of chilled champagne and two fluted glasses delivered within 10 minutes or less for £50. This can all be arranged within the existing Gett app. It’s only available between 4pm and 10pm to people located around Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, the City, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Belgravia and Kensington though. If you want…

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BuzzFeed and iHeartRadio now vying for your eyeballs in Snapchat Discover

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Snapchat Discover quietly got an update today to add two news sources: Buzzfeed and iHeartRadio. BuzzFeed’s channel doesn’t contain the sort of lists you might have expected to see, and instead opts for short videos and images that are likely to be well shared within the app. Buzzfeed’s new Snapchat channel Recode said last week that Snapchat planned to drop both Warner Music and the Food Network, though the latter still appears today. It’s also expected that Vox will appear in the future. Snapchat Discover has received a lukewarm reception from users. Teens don’t seem to like it and most users have only opened…

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A new Instagram quick edit screen means even Instagram knows filters are passé

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It looks like Instagram version 7.3 didn’t just bring new Explore features – but an entirely new edit screen to help quicken the sharing process. Spotted by Droid Life, the latest build of Instagram for Android sports a new screen that condenses the Edit, Location Tag, User Tag and Caption tools all within one screen. There’s also a “Swipe to Filter” overlay that lets you sample different filters instead of tapping through the 20-something offerings. I think Instagram’s on to our Valencia overuse, guys. Previously, you first had to select a filter, choose from various editing tools, tap the next arrow…

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Nintendo is killing its TVii service for Wii U next month

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Nintendo is shutting down the TVii service on its Wii U console next month. One of the big selling points of the Wii U when it launched in late 2012, it provides access to cable and satellite TV channels, as well as video on demand services like Netflix and Hulu. The service, complete with its interactive and social features, will go offline at  3:00pm PT on August 11, 2015. The Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube, and Crunchyroll apps will continue to operate separately. All Nintendo has said by way of explanation is that “every service has a life cycle, and it is time to focus our…

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Big changes are coming to the Windows Store

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With the launch of Windows 10 just around the corner, Microsoft is now elaborating on its plans to enhance the Windows Store for both developers and customers. As the company unifies its mobile and desktop stores and rolls out universal apps, improvements to organization, search and discovery are underway to propel customers to the app marketplace. According to a blog post by Bernardo Zamora, product manager for the Windows Apps and Store team: The Store has been built from the ground up for Windows 10 providing for scalability, and the ability to support a single Store for apps, plus a wider variety of content types: apps,…

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The payment app of the future will not be a payment app

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The use of mobile payments is rising rapidly. The Federal Reserve found that 22 percent of cell phone owners in the US reported having made a mobile payment in 2014, up from 17 percent in 2013 and 15 percent in 2012. That is almost a 50 percent increase in two years. But still, no payment app has managed to really substitute traditional everyday cash or credit card payments. Together with the increase in users, the payment app market has literally exploded; you can choose between dozens of payment apps in your app store. Every bank, operating system and retailer is…

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Pinterest on iPhone now has a simple-to-use Pin button

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While Android and desktop users have been able to quickly and easily Pin items to their wall in a few taps for a while, iOS users were left out in the cold until now. Announced in a blog post, the new build of Pinterest for iOS devices simply needs the new Pin button enabling, and it will then allow items found around the Web to be quickly pinned to their boards. All you need to do to enable it is open your browser, navigate to the ‘More’ option and then flip the Pinterest option on. The next time you go…

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This AI experiment generates realistic handwriting: Bring on the identity stealing robots

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This isn’t new – it’s from 2013 – but it hasn’t got nearly enough attention. Alex Graves at Toronto University built this handwriting generation demo that uses recurrent neural networks to produce convincing cursive script. Here’s the explanation of how it works from the abstract of Graves’ paper on the project: This paper shows how Long Short-term Memory recurrent neural networks can be used to generate complex sequences with long-range structure, simply by predicting one data point at a time. The approach is demonstrated for text (where the data are discrete) and online handwriting (where the data are real-valued). It is then…

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