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Instagram is testing a ‘regram’ feature to natively repost content

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 12:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media


On Twitter there’s the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing. To date, users have had to get creative in their attempts to repost content from other accounts on to their own timelines. Some used third-party apps that were just as good, sometimes better, at stealing data and hijacking accounts as they were at actually sharing content. Others just downloaded or screenshotted the original, and then republished it to their own feed — hopefully with a citation to the original. For years, though, Instagram users have been asking for a native share feature, just like those available…

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Instagram is testing a ‘regram’ feature to natively repost content

Sep21
by on September 21, 2018 at 12:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media


On Twitter there’s the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing. To date, users have had to get creative in their attempts to repost content from other accounts on to their own timelines. Some used third-party apps that were just as good, sometimes better, at stealing data and hijacking accounts as they were at actually sharing content. Others just downloaded or screenshotted the original, and then republished it to their own feed — hopefully with a citation to the original. For years, though, Instagram users have been asking for a native share feature, just like those available…

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Here are the upcoming Alexa features we’re most excited about

Sep20
by on September 20, 2018 at 10:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Amazon’s getting crazy with the Alexa updates this year. The trillion-dollar empire today announced dozens of upcoming features for its virtual assistant, the majority of which should roll out on Echo devices by year’s end. Read on to learn about the ones we’re most excited about. First up is a feature I’ve been waiting for since the moment I met Alexa: A way to quiet it down without walking across the room and changing the volume. Amazon introduced Whisper Mode today, a feature that’ll let you whisper a command to Alexa, prompting it to respond with a whisper of its…

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Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock is my favorite new Alexa device

Sep20
by on September 20, 2018 at 9:44 pm
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Amazon announced a plethora of new products today, including about four hundred devices which will have Alexa in them. Highlights include the Echo Auto, the Alexa Guard, and an AmazonBasics Microwave that includes an Alexa Connect Kit. All fine and dandy, I’m sure — but the product that most intrigues me is probably also the most innocuous: An Alexa-integrated Echo Wall Clock. Most of the stuff Amazon revealed at the show was already leaked or revealed through rumors. We already had an inkling about the Alexa-enabled microwave, as rumors about it surfaced earlier this week, and images of various Echo…

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