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Steam unveils game live streaming to compete with Twitch

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by on December 2, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Steam has today unveiled a new beta feature called ‘Broadcasting’ that allows you to stream your games to your friends — just like on Twitch — directly from Steam’s client. The company touts it as being incredibly simple to watch friends play at the click of a button. Steam users on the preview can set their client to allow friends to watch any time they’re gaming or only when invited. Broadcasting only starts when someone jumps in to watch and ends when the game is quit, however users have the option to also broadcast their desktop to stop the stream…

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This is what your heart rate looks like when you propose

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 7:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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An intrepid Redditor has bravely done what none of us had done before: measure their heart rate while proposing to their partner. In a post on the ‘data is beautiful’ subreddit, user Sesipikai shared a graph of their heart rate spanning around 40 minutes before and after proposing. The results are about what you’d expect; a nervously high heart rate massively jumping when it was time to actually propose (and dropping while eating ice cream). Sesipikai said in the comments that the heart rate was monitored using a Sports tracker HRM2 belt while visiting the Colosseum in Rome and the data was compiled using Microsoft…

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Google Docs makes it easier to edit Office files from Gmail, adds support for 15 new file types

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 6:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

As popular as Google Docs is, Office remains the dominant suite of productivity apps. Google know this, so it’s making it a bit easier to work with Office files with some new updates. Now, you can start editing Office files right from Gmail – you’ll see a new edit icon on the attachments. Once you click it, Google will automatically open the file in the relevant web app. Whereas before you’d have to first save the file to your Drive if you wanted to keep making changes to it, you can now access it anytime from either the email containing…

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Twitter makes it easier to report abusive tweets, revamps blocked accounts management

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter today announced it’s making it easier for users to report abusive comments on its platform. The changes allow you to report tweets with less initial information before a misbehaving account is flagged for review Starting today we’re rolling out an improved way to flag abusive Tweets. See how it works. https://t.co/Yf6cStz0z1 — Twitter Support (@Support) December 2, 2014 The updated process  gives additional priority to users who observe abuse, but aren’t necessarily receiving it directly. Twitter also notes it’s made some changes behind the scenes to shorten response time once a post has been flagged for review. The are some changes to…

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Get a lifetime of unlimited mobile backup from iDrive… for just $10

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers

Our smartphones are now a huge part of our lives, and store plenty of  important contacts and files, and our favorite music and photos. iDrive’s mobile backup lets you store them safely in the cloud for easy retrieval from any device and desktop – and we’ve got a great deal on this must-have service. With iDrive, you can easily back up contacts, photos, videos, calendar events, SMS history, call logs, apps and more from up to 5 devices, all with a single tap. Access your files and data whenever you need them on your desktop or other devices, and restore…

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