YouTube Kids gets Chromecast support and guest-curated playlists

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YouTube Kids has got an update on Android and iOS with a few useful features, including Chromecast support and curated playlists. In addition to beaming videos to your TV, you can now explore playlists curated by collaborators like National Geographic Kids, Kid President and Geena Davis. Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and Vsauce will add their recommendations soon. Parents will also be able to set a personal passcode to manage how their children use the app. The company says it will soon roll out onboarding instructions to let people know how to customize settings, such as enabling and disabling the search…

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IceCream lets you pack more pictures into your iPhone by saving image calories

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We’ve all been there. You aim your iPhone camera at a must-have photo and get an error message: Your storage is shot and the device will not hold another image. That’s the point when you frantically start deleting photos from the camera roll — hell, you’re even looking for entire apps to trash — in order to free up space. Too late. You missed your shot, chump. IceCream aims to never let you get into that sort of trouble again. With a single button tap, you can instantly free up space on your phone. The app lets you select how much space you…

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Klink launches social media platform and iOS app offering cash in return for photo views

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Posting your panoramic landscapes to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks is fun: nothing beats the instant gratification of praise and thumbs-up from friends and family. But one thing that probably won’t happen is any sort of financial renumeration. No, you’re not in it for the money — but extra cash to put toward a new camera card or lens or storage drive is always welcome. Klink, a new photographic social networking platform, aims not only to get you that critical commentary from viewers, but throws a few bucks into the mix. Its new iOS app, which has just emerged…

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Amazon sets a worrisome precedent by halting Chromecast and Apple TV sales

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Amazon will stop selling certain competing video streaming products, according to report by Bloomberg, which TNW has confirmed. It kinda sucks. Amazon emailed its marketplace sellers to indicate it will stop selling Google’s Chromecast and Apple TV next month. No new product listings will be allowed, and any existing items will be removed on October 29. Amazon’s reason? ‘Customer confusion:’ Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion. Roku, XBOX, PlayStation and Fire TV…

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Tweetbot 4 finally freed me from the official Twitter app

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Twitter’s official app is better than it used to be, but recently I’ve grown weary of the endless A/B testing. Over the years I’ve tried every third-party Twitter app imaginable, with little success pulling myself away from the official one. Tweetbot 4, which is out today, finally changed that for me. My biggest problem with most third-party Twitter apps is that you’re mostly forced to use the social network through this void of not knowing what interactions you’re receiving without push notifications enabled. Previously, apps have been disallowed by Twitter if they showed an ‘activity’ view, as it replicates functionality of their…

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Nest opens up Weave protocol to other developers and releases Cam API

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Nest today announced several updates for its third-party ‘Works with Nest’ program aimed at giving developers more options for communicating with Nest products. First up, the company is opening up its proprietary Weave communications protocol. The technology was previously only used in Nest products, but developers can now use it to connect power-constrained devices with low latency and connection redundancies, without the need for Wi-Fi. Nest says Weave has a several advantages over other device-to-device standards for the smarthome: Reliability – Nest Weave delivers reliable messaging across multiple networks. And because it runs over Thread, it can work with a secure, self-healing…

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Cut the Starbucks line in the UK with mobile ordering

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Starbucks has launched its Mobile Order & Pay app in the UK, so you don’t have to wait around in line for your coffee anymore. Available right now, the app lets you order and customize your food and drink before you arrive at the store, so you can just walk in and grab it without stopping. The app is free and will initially only allow pre-orders in London’s 150 stores. Eventually, the company plans to expand it to further stores across the UK. If you need a coffee fix and hate waiting, you’ll want this app. ➤ Mobile Order &…

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Firefox 41 lets developers screenshot individual page elements

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Firefox 41, the latest version of Mozilla’s browser released on September 22, includes an interesting new feature for developers: screenshots of individual elements. If you’re browsing the inspector panel for a page, you can now right click any element and take a screenshot of it. It’s a handy addition that other browsers haven’t added yet, particularly for passing on feedback about a page. The update had a number of other major developer improvements — like copying text to your clipboard without Adobe Flash — but the screenshot feature had flown under the radar. ➤ Firefox 41 [Mozilla Hacks]








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Tinder takes the ‘Super Like’ Worldwide

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Tinder is adding an extra swipe for eager folks looking to make connections. The company announced today that the ‘Super Like,’ a new action that allows users to express open interest. A user can deploy the ‘Super Like’ on one potential match per day with a single swipe up. When that user comes up in that potential match’s feed, their picture will display a special badge to indicate that the person has used his or her Super Like. The company tested the feature in Australia in early September, which CEO Sean Rad said proved to have a positive effect on…

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