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Vincent Van Gogh’s Night Café: VR edition

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by on May 6, 2015 at 8:39 pm
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The Café de la Gare in Arles, where Vincent Van Gogh hung out during the summer of 1888 — paying owner Joseph Ginoux for the room upstairs with his famous Night Café painting — is long gone. But thanks to Mac Cauley, we may get some sense of how the place may have looked and felt to the artist. Van Gogh spent three nights painting this room depicting what he later called his “ugliest” painting, sleeping during the day. While this virtual reality interpretation was inspired by this specific painting, Cauley’s VR experience broadens the perspective to include objects and scenes from other famous Van Gogh works. “While creating the environments…

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Facebook gives publishers new tools to customize native ads in third-party apps

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Facebook has launched a new standard native mobile ad format. It promises to make it easier for businesses to place their ads inside third-party apps in the Facebook Audience Network, which launched last year. The new native ad templates allow publishers to customize things like the font, ad height, background color, button border treatment and other features. The modification options will allow ads to look more like regular in-app content,, because, ultimately, people hate being interrupted by jarring ads. Facebook is also introducing a native ad template for horizontal scroll. In addition, there are new tools to manage multiple native ad requests. The new…

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ShowMango is the new subscription-based events service that all Londoners should check out

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re sick of spending more time deciding where to go with your friends than actually out enjoying yourself, ShowMango could be your new best friend. It’s a newly launched website in the UK that gives you access to unlimited gigs, club nights, exclusive parties, raves, day festivals and events in London for a monthly fee of £25. Noting the success of subscription-based companies such as Spotify and Netflix, ShowMango wants to bring that ease of access to real-life entertainment. The service is only available in London at the moment, with a particularly strong relationships in the electronic music scene showcasing venues…

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Android M will be at Google I/O 2015

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Google today released its schedule for this year’s Google I/O conference. And though it’s not entirely a surprise, we now know for sure that the company will be previewing the next version of Android at the event: Android M. Although Google doesn’t directly mention it, 9to5Google spotted some text under the Android for Work Update Session referencing the OS: Android M is bringing the power of Android to all kinds of workplaces. This opens huge new markets for hundreds of millions of devices to workers at small business, deskless workers, logistics and warehousing jobs; all be empowered by adoption of…

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Camera51 arrives on iOS

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by on May 6, 2015 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Camera51, the guided shooting app that debuted on Android last fall, has now made its way, as promised, to iOS. The app helps photographic novices to capture the best possible pictures of any given scene. The object is not only to capture the photo you want but do it without having to resort to editing tools before you share it. Camera51’s intelligent algorithms direct you to aim the camera up, down, left, right, move back or zoom in for a polished look. You just slide the smartphone icon into the ‘aim box’ by moving your camera and follow the arrow. The app relies on an algorithm…

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