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Google Plus Photos shutting down August 1 to make way for Google Photos

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by on July 20, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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If you’ve been using Google Photos in lieu of Google Plus Photos, you’re probably not alone. Today, Google announced it will begin shutting down Google Plus Photos on August 1. The shutdown will hit Android first, then iOS and the Web “soon thereafter.” Google also notes users have been seeing prompts in Plus to switch to the new Google Photos service, so many have likely migrated or are using both. This isn’t much of a surprise, though. At a small event after Google I/O this year, Google’s Vice President of Products Bradley Horowitz said its social arm was going through…

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Airbnb gets serious about business travelers with new booking tools for companies

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by on July 20, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Airbnb wants businesses to consider its services as a lodging option with a global expansion of its Business Travel program and a new tool dashboard to make booking and filing expenses much easier. When corporations sign up for the new product suite, employees will be able to book through Airbnb and expense costs directly to their companies. The product is made up of three primary tools: An Activity Tab lets you catalog current and upcoming trips for employees, including dates, location, number of people in each party and more A Reporting Tab helps you collect and manage expenses for the…

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Adobe’s Lightroom for Android update brings faster, more streamlined image editing

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by on July 20, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Lightroom Mobile for Android, Adobe’s companion app for Lightroom on the desktop, just got an update. In addition to squashing a fair number of bugs, an Adobe blog post cites several new additions to the app’s feature set. Users can now edit images more quickly by copying image adjustments and pasting them onto a different photo. A redesigned crop tool lets you quickly adjust, align and auto-straighten the image. A new Segmented view in Collections provides an easy way to find, view and interact with your photos. With the new version, Adobe has added Raw file support for the Panasonic Lumix CM1 Communication Camera. Lightroom on…

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Who’s that Pokemon? Amazon Echo works as a Pokedex

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by on July 20, 2015 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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Sure, the Amazon Echo can order your groceries, play your favorite radio station and even turn the lights in your home on and off, but all of those features come secondary to the fact that it can identify Pokemon for you in real time. The video by Vince Pale Jr. shows Alexa responding to his requests to pull information on Pikachu, Mudkip and others. In the video description, he mentions that he turned the Echo into an at-home Pokedex using the Amazon Lambda function for the device. In this case, he hooked it up to the Pokedex application Dexter. Using Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit and Lambda…

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4 technologies disrupting the hearing loss industry

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by on July 20, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, deaf, innovation, Insider

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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are more than 360 million people worldwide with a disabling hearing loss, including 32 million children and one-third of people over 65 years of age. Hearing loss may result from genetic causes, complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, chronic ear infections, the use of particular drugs, exposure to excessive noise and aging. One of the main impacts of hearing loss is on the individual’s ability to communicate with others, since spoken language development is often delayed in children with deafness. Limited access to services and exclusion from communication can have a significant…

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