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If you’re the type of person who browses carefully curated feeds on Instagram with serious envy then Hippo Pics is an app for you. The app, which is available for free on iOS-only, allows you to connect with some of the best editors Instgaram has to offer. You can have them collaborate with you on your photos and help edit them, or you can just browse other people’s collections and learn the tricks of the trade for yourself. When you download the app, you can immediately see the wor

It has been a long time coming but Microsoft has finally released its own keyboard app for iOS. Called Hub Keyboard, the app offers a number of SwiftKey-inspired features, which isn’t surprising given that Microsoft acquired the company in February. It also comes with Office 365 integration and it’s free to download. The app is an improvement on the default iOS keyboard and will be a big help to anyone who’s deep in the Office 365 ecosystem. You can grab your OneDrive fil

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There’ll be no boasting on Netflix and Chill dates about paying less because you used the service before it was cool anymore. That’s right, the streaming company will raise its prices for all customers to $9.99 per month for its most popular standard plan in May. While Netflix already upped prices for new customers last year from $7.99 to $8.99, this is the first time it’s increasing the price for existing users after guaranteeing the original price plan for two years in May 2

Have you ever wondered if your Apple Watch really cares about your feelings? Well, it doesn’t but this app will help it understand how you’re feeling from how you talk. EmoWatch, from Tokyo-based Smartmedical, is an app for the Apple Watch that identifies and tracks users’ emotions through their voice. Vocal emotion-recognition isn’t new but the company claims it’s the first time that it is being done through the Apple Watch. The technology it uses is called Empath

Politics played a larger-than-usual role in Latin America’s tech scene last month, either directly or indirectly, for better and for worse. From Obama’s visits to Argentina and Cuba to Uber’s troubles, here’s the news you don’t want to miss: Big players Facebook’s vice president for Latin America Diego Dzodan was briefly arrested in Brazil due to a legal case involving Facebook-owned WhatsApp. Facebook was accused of repeatedly disobeying a court order to hel

What is the next big wave of social media? Maybe it’s Peach — or another hot new social network. Maybe it’s a strategy like posting times or text faces. It’s really hard to say! (And yet here I am saying it…) To ride the wave of the next big thing in social media, it often takes a lot of trial-and-error, a good deal of trendspotting, and some courage to try new things. I’ve spent some time reading up on what’s to come for social media an

The speed at which we learn anything can determine the quality of our lives. Imagine if you could pick up that skill you’ve always wanted to learn, in a matter of months versus years. How would that affect your life? Countless learning experts and researchers have shown us that it is possible to learn anything in a fraction of the average expected time, it’s just a matter of following the right framework. Now, I’m not promising any miracles here. You are going to have to put i

The App Store has a copycat problem. Then again, we’ve known this for years. It doesn’t help that there’s a thin line between an innovator and a copycat. Before we move forward, let’s explore that thin line and define copycat more clearly. Author Austin Kleon suggests that real artists steal. Steve Jobs said something similar to this. (“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”) Artists steal ideas as inspiration. They take something great an

Yesterday, Reddit released its first apps for iOS and Android, developed in-house — and it’s already at the top of the App Store charts in the US. According to Sensor Tower, the official Reddit app is now top dog in the US App Store. In just 24 hours, it’s left Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook in its dust. It’s not just Alien Blue users switching, either. Data shows that Alien Blue — the former official Reddit client — never crested #18, which it achieved in Oc