Hands on: Yahoo Livetext is the perfect app for livestreaming your nostrils

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Yahoo just took the lid off its new audioless livestreaming app, Livetext. The idea is similar to what Skype would be if your Skype was muted and you can see chat texts overlaid atop the video stream. During Yahoo’s announcement, many of us in the TNW virtual newsroom were skeptical. With Periscope, Meerkat, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Vine and Skype already crowding the market, it seemed odd that Yahoo decided to create an app for the internet generation who are used to the noiseless world of GIFs. Really, go ask the next teen you find and see if they know what Yahoo is.…

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Amazon Dash buttons are here for $5 each

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Amazon Dash buttons — the branded little doodads that automatically order and ship specific items directly to your house with virtually no effort on your part — are finally available to Amazon Prime members today for just $4.99. Purchase one of 18 Dash buttons and never run out of the stuff you always seem to run out of. That’s really where Dash buttons do their handiwork: my house, for example, can never seem to keep stock of paper towels or toilet paper. Amazon offers branded products — currently Bounty for your hands and Cottonelle for your bum — that can be assigned to…

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Yahoo launches Livetext, its attempt at revamping Yahoo Messenger for the GIF generation

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Last week, Yahoo quietly launched its video messaging app Livetext in Hong Kong. In a press event today, the company unveiled the app for download out of the Asian market. Livetext is Yahoo’s attempt at reviving its Messenger app, this time with a focus around video – so much so that not even sound is included in the clips. “It’s live video texting, without sound. You will feel like your friends are right there with you,” the app description reads. It’s Yahoo’s play on audioless GIFs that are often used to react to things on the Web. Yahoo even did a market…

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iTunes Connect is down again and developers are annoyed…again

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Big trouble in app town today as iTunes Connect is down. That means developers wanting to push updates or verify apps are out of luck. Well iTunes Connect has been down since this morning, effectively stopping me from progressing on my current work — Johnny Blanchard (@JonnBlanchard) July 29, 2015 Wanted to verify CarpetKitty on #itunesconnect but apparently the site is down #sadmeow #indiedev — Carpet Kitty Game (@CarpetKittyGame) July 29, 2015 We’ve pinged Apple to find out what’s happening and will update this post as when we hear back/service is restored. As is typical, Apple’s own status page is not…

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Adobe embraces content marketers with its new Digital Publishing Solution app creator

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Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite was synonymous with the era of iPad magazine apps. In the past five years, it was responsible for 6,700 mobile apps that have been downloaded a total of 315 million times. Now that Apple’s Newsstand is going the way of the digital dodo, and consumer interest in digital periodicals has waned, the software is getting an overhaul to bring it in line with modern demands. And it’s not just about magazines; content marketing budgets are on the rise, leading to an increase in demand for content-focused apps among brands. Now called Digital Publishing Solution, Adobe’s revamped offering is…

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Google Translate updated with more languages, smoother conversations

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Back in January, Google changed its Translate app in significant and powerful ways, offering written translations across 90 languages, as well as active conversation interpreting for 32 languages and an AR sign-reading translation tool for 7 common languages. Now, the company announced via blog post today that it has expanded Google Translate in both content and performance. When reading signs or other written documents, users can now instantly translate to and from English and Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. The app can also provide one-way translations…

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FixApp wants to provide a fair marketplace for all your household or business tasks

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Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York on November 18.   With no shortage of on-demand services now available to people around the world, the ‘Uber for x’ approach to home services is certainly a well worn path. So why care about another new entrant in the market that’s taking the marketplace approach for service providers and customers? Because it’s not just aimed at your home – FixApp wants to be your marketplace for…

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This is a catfish killer: video verification could stop online fakes

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The internet is littered with stories of people who created fake personas on social networks, either to fuel their egos or to fill their bank accounts through scams. The ‘catfish’ is a such a powerful trope that it has its own MTV series, a horrible aspect of online existence that stretches back to almost-legendary examples like LonelyGirl15 (which was a fictional show initially sold as fact). It’s a tricky problem to solve, but I think I may have been shown a compelling answer. I Am Real is an Israeli company that has been working on online identify verification since 2013. It’s now getting…

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Windows 10: Here are the privacy issues you should know about

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Windows 10 has just arrived and there’s a new Privacy Policy and Service Agreement from Microsoft coming swiftly in its wake. The new policies take effect on 1 August and there are a few unsettling things nestling in there that you should be thinking about if you’re using the company’s services and software. The Privacy Statement and Services Agreements combined come to 45 pages. Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, Horacio Gutierrez wrote that they are “straightforward terms and polices that people can clearly understand.” The reality is, you’re probably not going to read them. So I did… And, like so many…

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