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It’s not a photo. It’s not a gif. It’s a Boomerang.
Today, we’re announcing Boomerang from Instagram, a new video app that lets you turn everyday moments into something fun and unexpected.
Capture a friend jumping off a diving board, defying physics as she flies back and forth through the air. Transform an ordinary selfie with your friends into a funny video. Get that exact moment your friend blows out his birthday candles, then watch them come back to life again and again.
Press a button and the app does the rest. Boomerang takes a burst of photos and stitches them together into a high-quality mini video that plays forward and backward. Shoot in portrait or landscape. Share it on Instagram. Boomerang automatically saves it to your camera roll. We’re inspired by the visual stories you tell on Instagram. With looping videos and Hyperlapse, you experiment with motion in new and exciting ways. Now, with Boomerang, we can’t wait to see what you’ll create next.
To learn more about Boomerang from Instagram check out the Instagram Help Center.
Boomerang from Instagram is available today for iOS in Apple’s App Store and for Android in Google Play.
In what's been the worst-kept secret thanks to a number of leaks, including photographs of the new player, streaming media device maker Roku is at last..
Basics
Quad-core processor, up to 60 fps 4K streaming; HDCP 2.2
Optical Audio Out
1080p home screen and user interface
802.11ac MIMO Wi-Fi
1.5 GB RAM
Wi-Fi Direct-enabled remote control with voice search, headphone jack and “Remote Finder” function
Dimensions: 6.5″ x 5.5″ x 0.8″
Weight: 0.9 lb.
Companion app for iOS and Android with full device control
Pros
4K support and features to highlight 4K video
More 4K channels at launch than competitors
Clean, easy-to-use interface and simple remote with buttons for favorite channels like Netflix
Faster than older Roku models
Lots of content: 300,000 movies and TV episodes; over 3K channels
Can now plug in stereo or sound bar
New reset button and Remote Finder
Supports nearly all major video services (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Google Play, Hulu, etc.). Not involved in anti-competitive measures as it’s an independent third party.
Cons
Price increase to $129.99 from the $99.99 Roku 3
No update to casual gaming catalog/features to rival Apple TV’s new App Store
Bigger! (Con for some!) Roku 4 is 6.5″ x 5.5″ x 0.8″ vs. 3.5″ x 3.5″ x 1″ for Roku 3
Voice support is available for search, but it’s not a “smart” assistant like Apple TV’s “Siri,” or Amazon’s “Alexa”
HBO NOW (so far) is still missing
Without a 4K TV, not enough features to encourage current Roku owners to upgrade their hardware
Amazon.com Inc. is flexing its e-commerce muscles to gain an edge on competitors in the video-streaming market by ending the sale of devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an e-mail to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast. No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said. Amazon’s streaming video service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on rival’s devices.
Apple says it is taking steps to remove a malicious software program found in a number of applications used by owners of iPhones and iPads in China
Apple has said it is taking steps to remove a malicious program found in a number of applications used by owners of iPhones and iPads in China.
It is thought to be the first large-scale attack on Apple's App Store.
The American firm said hackers had embedded a malicious code into the apps by persuading developers to use a counterfeit version of the firm's own software.
The program called XcodeGhost allows hackers to collect data from devices.
The developer of the Peace ad-blocking app withdrew from the Apple App Store because of concerns about inadvertently hurting honest publishers.
Marco Arment, a prominent Web developer who previously co-founded Tumblr, has decided to remove his ad-blocking app called Peace from the Apple App Store after almost two days atop the charts
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Researchers dug through public records to uncover the true shape of cables at the heart of the U.S. Internet.
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