Google Maps for Android update makes it easier to choose a restaurant

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Google Maps is improving its ‘Explore’ feature on Android. Starting today, it’ll be easier to discover some of the best restaurants in your area through the app. If you head on over to the Explore section of the Maps app, you’ll be able to pick from a variety of categories that fit your needs and occasions. For instance, the app will be able to shoot out suggestions for ‘lunch nearby’ or ‘mission-style Mexican food.’ Once you choose a category, Maps will delve deeper into the specifics for each location, including photos, ratings and reviews. Explore will also tell you if a restaurant…

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9 must-have apps for foodies and cooks

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Are you a foodie? Do you have more photos of food than your family and friends on Instagram? And go to the farmers market every weekend? I get you. While I love cookbooks and notebooks filled with recipes recorded in nice penmanship, I have become increasingly reliant on my phone or tablet in the kitchen. So, whether you’re a Michelin star chef or a home baker, these essential apps are sure to please: Epicurious If you normally Google recipes, odds are you’ve already ended up on the Epicurious website. The work of Condé Nast Digital, it has more than 30,000 recipes collected from…

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Hulu finally gets rid of commercials with new $12 subscription

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It’s been a long time coming: you can finally watch Hulu without ads. The streaming video company today introduced a third price tier for its customers, this time costing $11.99 a month. For comparison, Hulu Plus costs $7.99 a month, but only provides a wider selection of older episodes compared to the free tier. As for why it took so long, Hulu explains that it simply was difficult for the company to get the appropriate rights. So difficult, in fact, that it couldn’t secure ad-free playback for seven shows: ‘New Girl,’ ‘Scandal,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Once Upon…

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Remember ‘Monument Valley’? These real world locations look like levels from the game

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‘Monument Valley’ was such a smash hit that the game was even featured in Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’, but while its levels are often described as featuring “impossible architecture,” that’s actually false. There are places in the world that look a lot like environments from its fantasy worlds. Chicago-based journalist Victoria Lautman first encountered the stepwells of India over 30 years ago and published an extensive essay on them featuring some incredible images back in 2013. It’s just resurfaced thanks to social media. The massive, subterranean temples were designed as way to access water in regions where the weather flips between brutally hot dry months and torrential…

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There’s a new Minecraft launcher for OS X and you can test it

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If you play Minecraft – and if you’re reading this, it’s likely that either you or one of your kids does – then you’ll know that installing and launching the game on OS X has been as awkward as a creeper with a bucket on its head. That about to change! The Mojang development team has revealed that it has a new native launcher that doesn’t require Java to play nice. Here’s the news straight from the dev’s mouth: You may have noticed that launching Minecraft on OS X is kind of a pain in the butt. We’ve been trying for…

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ClearLock for Android is the easiest way to avoid distracting apps

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My innate fear of boredom has driven me to load up my phone with as many games, reading and video apps as it can fit. While that’s great for long queues and airport layovers, it can wreak havoc on my productivity. That’s where ClearLock comes in. This clever little tool lets you disable distracting apps so you can’t use them for a certain amount of time — something you can’t do on iOS. ClearLock lets you disable time-wasting apps for anywhere between 10 minutes and three hours To focus, you can select distracting apps and then indicate how long you want…

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Feedly’s new Shared Collections makes your reading list public

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If you’re a full-blown online content distribution factory — spreading news links around to nearly every social media outlet you can get your hands on — then you’re likely the perfect candidate for Feedly’s latest Pro feature, ‘Shared Collections.’ Announced today in a blog post, Shared Collections allows you to turn your private reading list into a browsable page that allows others to follow the same sources. Feedly makes a big gesture about how this tool can be used for collaborative sharing across groups or businesses. This is true — sometimes it’s easy to put together a selection of sources…

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Instagram Direct now supports private photo sharing, selfies and emojis

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Instagram has finally made some feature updates to Instagram Direct that finally makes it a true messaging service, and also eliminating annoying habits many on Instagram have right now. Announced in a blog post today, version 7.5 is currently available for both iOS and Android. The primary improvement to the feature is that you can finally send content from your feed as a Direct Message. Previously, Instagram Direct was limited to original photographs to share with others. Now, users can share photos directly with one another, and clicking that photo will bring the user back to the source. Introducing this photo…

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Life just got a whole lot easier for freelance translators

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Translation of written text is one of the few areas where computers still have a lot of space for improvement compared to humans. Although Google Translate and similar tools are widely used for making sense of stuff you don’t understand, machine translation is not quite ready to replace people when it comes to creation of clean, comprehensive texts. Machines, however, can significantly improve the productivity of human translators with a number of tools that fall under the Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) category. A newcomer to this industry, SmartCAT, has included the most useful tools and combined them with a marketplace for…

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