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Facebook now offers notifications for events near you hosted by bands, businesses and other pages

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by on March 30, 2015 at 8:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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You’re on Facebook for the brands, right? A new button allows you to get notifications whenever your favorite brand/musician/page is hosting an event near you, so that you don’t miss out. A new section shown in the events dashboard allows you to subscribe to pages to receive notifications when there’s an event hosted by the page near your location. The notifications appear in a similar way to what you’d see if a friend invited you to an event. According to Techcrunch, a new button will also appear on pages near the like button to encourage users to sign up for these notifications.…

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Gmail for Android now lets you check all your accounts in a single inbox

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by on March 30, 2015 at 6:47 pm
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Google is unleashing a significant update to its Android Gmail app today that should please users with several email accounts. You can now view emails from all your different accounts in one spot with a new “All inboxes” option. This lets you respond to all of your messages without needing to manually switch between account, whether it’s a Gmail account or not. Gmail’s conversation view makes sorting through long email threads easier, but it’s previously only been available for gmail.com addresses. Now any IMAP/POP accounts are getting the feature too, so your Outlook conversations will look just as organized as…

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Google+ separation begins, photos now available in Google Drive

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by on March 30, 2015 at 6:26 pm
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Google is about to make looking through your old Google+ photos a whole lot easier. Google+ photos will now show up in Google Drive, in a move google hopes will make using its various platforms more seamless. You’ll find a new “Google Photos” menu on Drive in Android, iOS and the Web. From there you can manage your photos and videos just like any other Drive files. It’s a small but neat addition that should make organizing your photo library a bit easier. The change follows Google’s announcement at the beginning of the month that it would be separating Google+…

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Spylight for iOS lets you buy the clothes from your favorite TV shows

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by on March 30, 2015 at 5:29 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Have you ever been watching a TV show or a movie and wondered where you could buy the clothes? Well, Spylight is the answer. Spylight is a nifty new app for iOS that allows you to “shop the screen” quite literally. There are two ways you can do it – by holding your phone up to the TV while the show or movie is on, the app will identify it by syncing with the audio and show you the clothes that are available, or you can opt to browse the database of hundreds of TV shows and movies, and the…

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Tesla is launching a new product line next month – that doesn’t involve cars

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by on March 30, 2015 at 4:47 pm
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It seems like Tesla is about to start making more than just electric cars. Major new Tesla product line — not a car — will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2015 According to a tweet by CEO and founder Elon Musk, a new product line – one that doesn’t involve cars – will be unveiled on April 30th at 8PM, from Tesla’s Hawthorn Design Studio. During a press call in February, Musk passingly mentioned that he was working on using Tesla’s battery technology to help power homes. That…

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