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You can now share Kindle book previews via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and text messaging

Jun25
by on June 25, 2015 at 8:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon’s Kindle app can now share previews of books and text snippets to apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or via text message. Kindle users could already share quotes, highlights and recommendations to Facebook and Twitter, but this is the first time Amazon is allowing readers to share via a messaging platform. Those who receive a recommendation from a Kindle owner can start reading a preview of the book on their mobile devices or desktop. The preview does not require the Kindle app or even an Amazon account. The change hits the Kindle Android app first, with the update coming to…

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NASA and Microsoft will send HoloLens into space by the end of this year

Jun25
by on June 25, 2015 at 7:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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HoloLens is about to go intergalactic. In a partnership with NASA, Microsoft is sending a few headsets to the International Space Station (ISS) for something called Project Sidekick, which will let astronauts go paperless by the end of the year. Currently, when an astronaut needs to complete a task, they take notes on what they’re doing and receive instruction from NASA by voice only. Project Sidekick uses the HoloLens to create an augmented reality so astronauts can receive more detailed instructions and see what needs to be done in the space (pun intended) they’re currently working in. Project Sidekick will…

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Facebook’s latest diversity report shows it’s still as male and white as last year

Jun25
by on June 25, 2015 at 7:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Facebook has released its latest study on diversity, and compared to last year — it still has plenty of work to do. Global gender lines at Facebook are still widely skewed, as Facebook reports 68 percent of the workforce is male. Last year, 69 percent of its global employees were men. The same one percent shift is found in tech, where Facebook reports 84 percent are male compared to 85 percent last year. In the US, Facebook reports 55 percent of its workforce is white; a drop from 57 percent a year ago. Asian employees rose two percent, while hispanics, blacks, those…

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Polarr’s brand new image editor for iOS mixes abundant tools into an elegant interface

Jun25
by on June 25, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Polarr, known for its browser-based photo editing app, today debuted an image editor for iOS that competes with some of the best image pro-level editors on the iOS platform — while maintaining its ease of use. Polarr is a no-nonsense product without gimmicks — you use it to make your pictures look stunning. So if you’re looking to draw little doodles on your photos or apply cute stickers or cool type treatments, there are plenty of fine apps that facilitate your playful side. But you won’t find it here. The app offers a large assortment of pro-level features and controls, and yet is accessible to…

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Who are your best Twitter friends? This tool creates an automatically updated list of them

Jun25
by on June 25, 2015 at 6:40 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Do You Even List?, Tools, twitter lists

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Remember the ‘Do you even lift?’ meme? Doesn’t matter. Meet Do You Even List? a new Twitter tool that scans your activity on the social network and builds an automatically updated list of the people you interact with most. Created as a side-project by Carl Hamlet, an English developer in Sweden, it scores the accounts you tweet with the most. Once a day, it refreshes a private Twitter list (slightly arrogantly) called ‘My Audience’ with your highest scoring contacts. It’s effectively the Twitter equivalent of the old MySpace ‘Top Eight’ feature. When you first connect the service to your account, you can select accounts…

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