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Here’s why your Twitter app is looking different

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by on July 28, 2015 at 8:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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There’s a lot of hooplah on Twitter today about… well, Twitter. The company has just started a series of tests that tweak major changes to its design on iOS, including the replacement of the ‘fav’ button with a heart which we saw on Android last month. It appears that Twitter is performing a series of A/B tests which revolve around the design of the reply, retweet and favorite buttons found directly below tweets in the timeline. The first test makes the buttons significantly more prominent than their faded counterparts in the current design (pictured lower left), adding a circle to draw attention.…

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Is vegan food Google’s next big thing? It reportedly tried to buy a synthetic burger company

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by on July 28, 2015 at 8:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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There is seemingly no end to the lengths that former and current meat-eaters will go to find meat substitutes that taste exactly like — meat. Food companies developing plant-based meat equivalents seem aware of that juicy tidbit. And now, Google may be getting into the act, apparently pursuing a long-term interest it has had in the food industry — starting with founder Sergey Brin’s cultured beef project, a stab at making burgers from stem cells. Now, an unconfirmed report has it that Google recently tried to purchase Impossible Foods, the outfit behind another vegan burger under development called The Impossible Cheeseburger. While vegetarians would generally refer to such a…

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Amazon brings its Prime Music streaming service to the UK

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by on July 28, 2015 at 8:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Amazon has today announced that its Prime Music streaming service is now available for members based in the UK, having previously been restricted to users in the US. First launched in the US in June, the service allows paying Prime members (£79 per year) to freely stream its catalog of one million tracks. While the comparatively small selection of tracks means the service isn’t likely to challenge Spotify (or other similar services) just now, it’s another nice little addition for people who have already shelled out for a year membership, and provides one more reason to sing up for people who haven’t.…

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Listen to the sounds NASA sent into space for aliens to hear

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by on July 28, 2015 at 8:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It’s been a big month for alien enthusiasts. First Stephen Hawking backed a $100 million fund to get serious about our search for extraterrestrial life, now NASA has posted the ‘Golden Record’ up on Soundcloud. What is the ‘Golden Record’? It’s the collection of sounds that NASA selected to be sent on the Voyager spacecraft that launched in 1977. The intention was to take impressions of our world right out to the edge of interstellar space. Carl Sagan chaired the committee to decide what sounds were included. He said of the effort: The spacecraft will encountered the record played only if there…

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