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Whether she’s trademarking her lyrics or inspiring a custom iOS keyboard, Taylor Swift has a knack for being on the cusp of tech trends. Her latest coup is becoming the first celebrity to get a custom Twitter hashflag, introduced in advance of her heavily-trailed Bad Blood music video. Add #BadBloodMusicVideo to a tweet and you’ll automatically get a custom emoji of a Bandaid with a bullet hole through it. TONIGHT. #BadBloodMusicVideo World Premiere OPENING the @OfficialBBMAs at 8/7ct on the on @ABCNetwork! — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 17, 2015 Sadly, the little graphic only appears to show up in the official…
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Apple’s mapping service may not quite have the popularity of Google’s offering, but the company is constantly working to improve it. The New York Times today confirmed that Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a firm specializing in high accuracy GPS devices and software. Meanwhile, Coherent Navigation’s webpage is now offline, and name servers for the domain now point to Apple’s servers. According to MacRumors, some of Coherent Navigation’s employees started working at Apple as early as January. With WWDC coming up, it’s possible Apple is working to introduce a revamped Maps experience. The company acquired numerous smaller mapping companies over…
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Found this on YouTube and watched it with the whole family: “Loz’s magnificent 7-tone fart symphony” Shows there can be beauty in even the smallest detail of life, and when you have talent the Internet will find you and make you famous. What happened to Justin Beeber could happen to Loz. Or maybe it is just a fart joke. Make sure you watch the whole thing!
InboxVudu, a service that provides smart summaries of your most important emails, has launched a nifty Chrome extension to help you stay on top of your messages. As before, InboxVudu connects to your Gmail or Google Apps account and then analyzes your emails to provide a list of what you need to respond to and when. It extracts only the text you need to actually act on, as well as any details it deems important, to help you sift through content more easily. And if senders become a bit to naggy, you can always mute them too. The main difference…
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