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A man who was badly injured in an explosion is crediting the iPhone app Siri for saving his life. His hands were too badly burned to be able to dial 911 for assistance.
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A new app has been developed and it offers a series of personalized therapies for stroke patients to gain back use of their arms.
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If, like me, your DVD collection is languishing unwatched because you don’t have a DVD player or a disc drive on your laptop, Walmart’s Vudu has a solution.
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When President-elect Donald Trump tweets about a public company, the market listens.
And if you hold the stock of one of the companies that has come into Trump's crosshairs, finance app Trigger thinks you'll want to know about it.
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A new consumer-facing medical app, called Ada, enables people to assess and monitor their personal health through sophisticated artificial intelligence technology.
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Tribe's video chat technology took a huge leap forward by adding new interesting features such as an improved voice recognition, instant subtitles and related links.
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The digital experience testing company Applause discloses the results of over 3.5 million reviews of the 50 most downloaded Android and iOS retail apps in the last six months.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they are launching a contest that is intended to reduce the number of opioid overdose deaths in the United States.
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The city of Moscow launched a limited version of "Know. Moscow. Photo," an augmented-reality app for iOS and Android with a striking similarity to Pokémon Go, on Monday.
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Over 500 million people now use photo-sharing service Instagram every month, the company has revealed. The news comes shortly after it switched to using algorithms to sort photos in feeds and launched a controversial redesign of its app and icon.
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Google has rolled out an update to its Calendar app that makes it simpler to schedule events with other people while on mobile devices. Checking when you're available can be complicated on a small screen so Google now shows when you're free.
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A new smartphone app to alert users to possible terror attacks was launched by the French government on Wednesday in time for the start of Euro 2016, amid growing security concerns over the tournament.
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Google has rolled out an update to the Google Translate app on mobile devices. It adds a new feature that lets you use Google Translate within other apps on your phone so you don't need to copy-and-paste text from messaging threads into Translator.
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YouTube is building its own messaging system that will sit within the main YouTube app. The feature, available in early access to some users now, is designed to encourage you to share videos more often. You won't need to leave the app to contact friends.
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WhatsApp has launched a new desktop app for Windows and Mac OS X PCs. It adds another platform to the growing list of devices that the popular communication service supports, letting you send messages from wherever you are while on the go.
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Instagram has announced a major refresh of its app that includes a new icon and updated design. Instagram has abandoned its old blue colours in favour of a monochrome palette accented by bright shades of pink, a significant revision of its app.
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HTC didn’t just announce a new flagship smartphone today. It also introduced a new system tuning app that will be available on every Android smartphone. It can intelligently tune performance, improve battery life and increase security.
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Discussion board website Reddit has finally launched its official mobile apps for Android and iOS. After a beta testing period, the app became publicly available today, giving you a faster way to access Reddit without navigating the mobile website.
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Microsoft has unveiled an app that helps blind people "see" the world. Using artificial intelligence, the app can work out what is happening in the environment around it and provide detailed descriptions to the user, letting them visualize the world.
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Google is reportedly building its own livestreaming app for iOS and Android devices. The service will be branded as YouTube Connect and is designed to rival services including Twitter's Periscope and Facebook Live as livestreaming gains in popularity.
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Google is said to be building a feature-packed third-party keyboard for the iPhone and iPad that will see it bring elements of the Android user interface to Apple's rival platform. The company wants to increase the number of searches made by iOS users.
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Facebook is discontinuing its mobile app for BlackBerry users, taking many of the strong Facebook integration features of the BlackBerry 10 software with it. The move puts another nail in the coffin for BlackBerry's proprietary OS as it moves to Android.
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Samsung is building its own social network that aims to bring people together and inspire collaborative content creation. Users create a feed of expandable, image-based content arranged in a grid, giving the app its quirky name 'Waffle.'
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Peeple, the highly criticized app that encourages people to rank each other in a similar way to a restaurant or location review, has launched on iOS. The app branded "Yelp for people" has undergone some changes since it first appeared online.
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Google has announced a limited trial of a new mobile payments app that lets you pay for something in a store with nothing more than your voice. The system requires your phone to be present but doesn’t force you to pick it up.
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A new app, intended to be used on smartphones, has been developed to help medical staff detect the signs of cancer early.
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Smartwatches are usually quite pricey accessories but, as with most electrical products, cheap knockoffs can easily be found online. One such device is the "U8" $17 smartwatch, recently caught transmitting user data to an unknown Chinese server.
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Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has announced it will be discontinuing support for several aging phone platforms. Notably, the app will no longer support all BlackBerry devices, including recent BlackBerry 10 ones.
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Facebook has announced it is expanding Facebook Live to users of Android phones and more countries around the word. The service lets people broadcast live video of themselves to friends, competing with apps like Twitter's Periscope.
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Drew Chadwick, Wesley Stromberg and Keaton Stromberg from Emblem3 chatted with Digital Journal about their headlining "Waking Up" tour, their new EP, and their app.
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Screengrab: Snapchat on an iPhone. Screengrab via CNN
Evolution of the Android Market to 2015 Google Play refresh Kirill Grouchnikov [Google+]
The YouTube app Pexels / freestocks.org
Images of upcoming Google Play Store redesign, October 2015 Kirill Grouchnikov [Google+]
Edjing lets you professionally mix tracks like a DJ on your phone Edjing
Netatmo has produced an elegant bracelet to monitor sun exposure. YouTube
The Elevate app found on LinkedIn Courtesy LinkedIn
Netatmo has produced an elegant bracelet to monitor sun exposure. YouTube
An example of a smartphone scanning a QR Code briansuda
Photoshop in the Windows Store
Logo for Meerkat, a new livestreaming application. © Life on Air inc.
Rdio's app is available across several different platforms Rdio
Native sharing in the YouTube app Google / WIRED
Google Maps now supports offline navigation Gopogle
Google Photos fact cards from 21/10/2015. Google
Andritha Vijay being interviewed at WWDC. CCTV
The app developed by the AUTISM AMBASSADORS OF GHANA. This is an organization that brings together students, various individuals and volunteers who help to create awareness and also help to support lives of children living with Autism in Ghana.
Microsoft has acquired listing app Wunderlist Microsoft
Split-screen iPad multitasking in iOS 9 Apple WWDC 2015 live keynote via TechCrunch
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