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Medium just made it easier to keep up with your favorite topics

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by on May 14, 2015 at 8:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Medium
Medium has today added a neat feature to help you keep up with the topics you’re interested in. Instead of just following specific users, you can now follow tags too. There’s a new follow button on the top right of dedicated pages for tags. Click on it, and you’ll see stories related to that tag show up on your homepage, while also seeing the topic added to a list of followed tags on your homepage. These topics will show up on your Medium email digest as well. It’s a small addition, but it could come in handy if you don’t…

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iON Cameras and Contour merge to compete with GoPro

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by on May 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm
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iON Cameras and Contour — both specializing in action-based POV and wearable video cameras — have announced that they are merging. The companies have a combined global distribution in over 10,000 stores in 40 countries and will be in a better position to give dominant competitor GoPro a run for its money. The Contour and iON brands will co-exist while offering a full range of connected and wearable cameras. Contour will continue to focus on products for the higher end of the camera market. The newly merged company will invest in innovating camera hardware and software to continue letting people shoot, edit, share, live stream and store video…

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iON Cameras and Contour merge to compete with GoPro

May14
by on May 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

ion
iON Cameras and Contour — both specializing in action-based POV and wearable video cameras — have announced that they are merging. The companies have a combined global distribution in over 10,000 stores in 40 countries and will be in a better position to give dominant competitor GoPro a run for its money. The Contour and iON brands will co-exist while offering a full range of connected and wearable cameras. Contour will continue to focus on products for the higher end of the camera market. The newly merged company will invest in innovating camera hardware and software to continue letting people shoot, edit, share, live stream and store video…

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The Amazon Echo finally lets you shop with just your voice (sort of)

May14
by on May 14, 2015 at 7:41 pm
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Amazon Echo
Given that the Amazon Echo voice-controlled assistant is made by, well, Amazon, it’s not too much of a stretch to assume you’d be able to use it to do some shopping, but so far that has not been possible. A firmware update pushed out today changes that by helping you reorder items you’ve previously purchased according to SlashGear. Simply say “Alexa, reorder _____.” Though you can’t browse through the full catalog, if you search for something Amazon hasn’t previously shipped to you, the Echo will throw out its best guess for the item and a price. If that doesn’t work…

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The Amazon Echo finally lets you shop with just your voice (sort of)

May14
by on May 14, 2015 at 7:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Amazon Echo
Given that the Amazon Echo voice-controlled assistant is made by, well, Amazon, it’s not too much of a stretch to assume you’d be able to use it to do some shopping, but so far that has not been possible. A firmware update pushed out today changes that by helping you reorder items you’ve previously purchased according to SlashGear. Simply say “Alexa, reorder _____.” Though you can’t browse through the full catalog, if you search for something Amazon hasn’t previously shipped to you, the Echo will throw out its best guess for the item and a price. If that doesn’t work…

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