Facebook steps up competition with YouTube with ad-supported videos
Videos uploaded directly to Facebook are watched more than 4bn times a day according to the social network. Now it wants their uploaders to be able to make money from those videos. The social network is testing a new “suggested videos” feature in its news feed, which will see videos from partner publishers and creators recommended to Facebook users, with advertisements running in between them.
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What3Words – Who needs latitude and longitude?
What3Words have created a universal 3 meter X 3 meter global map of the entire earth, giving each 3x3m square on the planet, 3 unique words (53 trillion of them to be precise). This platform, app and ultimately API, will potentially revolutionise the way things are delivered and connected around the world, becoming particularly innovative in the developing world. It won the Cannes Lions Innovation Grand Prix in 2015.
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Cook Smart
Attention tech-loving-foodies! A group of ex-apple employees have banded together to create the world’s first smart oven. The oven features Wi-Fi connectivity for software updates, an in-built digital scale, Nvidia processors as the brains, touchscreen interface, plus an HD digital camera that recognises food and automatically programs the oven how to cook it perfectly.
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Latest iTunes update may have just outed new iPods
A new image has appeared on iTunes 12.2 following Tuesday’s update (toting Apple Music), indicating Apple might end up releasing some new iPods this year. Now that Apple Music has released, there are reports that the tech giant may be developing a premium music player for things such as high-fidelity streaming (to take on services like Tidal).
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Organised confusion
Procore Technologies, a company with headquarters near Santa Barbara, recently moved into new headquarters designed by Kingdom Industry. The point of the new offices? To make workers feel lost. According to research in neuroscience, this kind of visual chaos can help workers stay more alert, by asking them to constantly reengage with their environment.
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