Thursday, April 28, 2016
Instagram testing wild new black and white design
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Instagram has a pretty recognizable design, but it could be due for a massive overhaul. Mashable reports that the Facebook-owned app is testing out a questionable new look on some of its users.
You can see the new version of the app above on the right, with the current official design on the left for comparison. The refreshed user interface is completely black and white, offering a simpler and duller feel overall….
Instagram testing wild new black and white design
A Beautiful Planet: Shooting IMAX Is Hard Enough on Earth. In Space, It’s Preposterous
The IMAX 3D movie A Beautiful Planet hits theaters tomorrow, on April 29. The film was shot on the International Space Station, so unless you’re an astronaut, you’ll see views of our pale blue dot that you’ve never seen before. Mesmerizing flybys of cities at night, street lights smoldering like charcoal embers. Neon-green auroras, glowing like black-light posters. The crystal-blue waters of the Bahamas, urging you to cannonball in from orbit.
Surprisingly, A Beautiful Planet is the first IMAX space production to use digital cameras instead of film cameras.
A Beautiful Planet: Shooting IMAX Is Hard Enough on Earth. In Space, It’s Preposterous
How to recover files from a dead external drive
Nannette Abia Rivera’s external hard drive stopped working, and she needs to recover files stored on it.
When you store files on an external drive, it’s easy to forget my first rule of tech storage: Never have only one copy of anything. We tend to think of external drives—especially external hard drives—as a backup medium, so of course anything on the drive must be a backup.
But if files exist only on that external drive, they are not backed up. And you need to make sure they get backed up to something other than that particular drive—whether it’s an…
How to recover files from a dead external drive
Tour booking software startup Xola scores $5M Series A led by Rakuten Travel
Xola, a software platform that manages booking and marketing for tour providers, is venturing deeper into international markets after closing a $5 million Series A. The funding was led by Rakuten Travel, which is Japan’s largest online travel agency, and contributed half of the round.
Rakuten Travel is a unit of Rakuten, the largest e-commerce marketplace in Japan. The company also has operations throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, which San Francisco-based Xola can leverage as it seeks international growth.
In particular, Rakuten Travel…
Tour booking software startup Xola scores $5M Series A led by Rakuten Travel
Nintendo reveals Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem experiences for mobile
Nintendo’s Miitomo was a nice introduction for the company’s presence on Android and mobile, but it seems they’re about to get even more serious. The company has revealed plans to launch new games and apps based on Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem this fall.
In case you’re not familiar, Animal Crossing is a game where you’re placed into a town full of friendly characters. Your goal is to help keep the place looking good and running smoothly, and doing things to help the residents who inhabit the area. In turn, you get rewarded with currency to buy stuff for…
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Nintendo reveals Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem experiences for mobile