Translator for Apple’s WatchOS 2 will show you time-aware local phrases when you’re abroad

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Microsoft has announced updates for its Translator app for iOS and WatchOS 2 that should make it easier to communicate in a foreign language when you’re traveling. Depending on your location and the time of day, the watch app will automatically show you common phrases like “good morning” and “goodbye” in the local language. In addition, you can use the Time Travel feature to view phrases for other times of day, like “good night.” The update will also allow you to play back recent and pinned translations through the watch speaker, making it easy to learn and incorporate phrases into your conversations…

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Office apps for iOS 9 will let you multitask and mark up documents with a stylus

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Microsoft has announced updates for its Office suite of productivity apps as well as its Outlook email client that will take advantage of the new features in Apple’s iOS 9, WatchOS 2 and the upcoming iPad Pro. Thanks to iOS 9’s support for multitasking, you’ll be able to use two Office apps simultaneously on the same screen, and switch between them or copy content over in a pinch. View and work with two Office apps at once The company says these features will be useful in a number of ways. For example, you could jot down tasks in OneNote while…

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Duolingo and Uber partner up to let you request certified English-speaking drivers in Colombia

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Navigating a foreign city is difficult – throw in a foreign language and you’re guaranteed to get lost in no time. To help English-speaking travelers better commute, Uber and Duolingo have partnered up to launch UberENGLISH, a service that lets you request a certified English-speaking driver. UberENGLISH launches today in Colombia, with other Latin American cities to be added throughout the rest of the year. Interested drivers can take a Duolingo Certificate Exam for $20 and be qualified to pick up tourists requesting English-speaking service. For Uber users, they’ll see an option for UberENGLISH along with available cars brandishing an American flag (sorry, Brits). Duolingo Test Center was announced last…

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Tinder now lets you swipe up to ‘Super Like’ that special someone

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By now, Tinder’s swipe left or swipe right behaviors have been adopted and mimicked in a whole range of different apps. Now, Tinder users in Australia (and then the rest of the world) can swipe up to indicate a ‘Super Like.’ Quite obviously, this Super Like indicates “a heightened level of interest,” the company says. To make sure that the new feature isn’t abused, you get a limited number of Super Likes, and you’ll know if someone Super Liked you, as they’ll have a blue footer on their profile when you view it. The company didn’t say exactly how many…

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MovieDay for Android counts down to the next film you want to watch

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If you enjoy catching new movies the day they hit theaters (or if you really hate spoilers), MovieDay can help you beat the queue. This clever Android app counts down the days to the next release you’re looking forward to, and looks good doing it. Search for a title or find something you like in the Browse section, and you can add it to your watch list. MovieDay will then display a countdown, and notify you ahead of its release. MovieDay helps you track upcoming films with a countdown (left); tap a title to view detailed info and a trailer (right)…

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Are you a trend spotter? Spotify’s ‘Found Them First’ app gives you the bragging rights

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We all have those music fanatic friends who always say they were listening to a band before the band even existed. Well, if that’s you, or you’d like to join in on the bragging, Spotify’s new ‘Found Them First‘ Web app is what you need. All you have to do is log in using your Spotify account details and it crunches your data to find the artists you were listening to before they made it big. Naturally, I was among the first 3% and 5% of listeners for Irish artists Kodaline and Hozier, who were both quite well-known and established…

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Track how your team uses Slack with Google Analytics

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Here’s a fun project for Slack users. Google’s Developer Expert Nico Miceli has whipped up a bot that can monitor your team’s activity in the collaboration app and beam back metrics to Google Analytics. Miceli says his Slackalytics bot could be used by consultants to track channels for individual clients, or to see how often members of your team communicate with each other. Miceli’s Slackalytics bot counts words, emoji and exclamations used in various channels You can implement the beta version out of the box to measure things like word count, emoji and exclamation usage, and visualize it with graphs using Google…

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30-second ads are coming to Instagram

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Instagram announced that it will allow businesses to run ads up to 30 seconds long on its platform. Brands will also be able to use Instagram’s new landscape format for photo and video ads. The company will also expand its service to smaller clients and welcome advertisers in 30 more countries on September 30, including Italy, Spain, Mexico, India and South Korea. Instagram says it will also offer delivery and optimization tools to reach users on its own service as well as Facebook, and a new premium product called Marquee that will help “drive mass awareness and expanded reach in…

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Twitter updates on iPad for a unified experience across devices

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Twitter has got an update on iPad with a responsive design that brings its features and interface more in line with the iPhone app. The new version is just in time for Apple’s scheduled announcement of new mobile devices that will likely sport different form factors than their predecessors. With this update, Twitter’s iPad app now sports a similar UI to the iPhone app and lets users quote tweets, a feature that got an overhaul on other devices back in April. Twitter will support multitasking in iOS 9 Twitter says its adoption of an adaptive layout will allow the app to…

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