Instapaper just became a social network

Instapaper 3.0 hasjust arrivedon the App Store, bringing new social features, search, a smart rotation lock, and an improved storage engine that enables higher image quality and faster downloads. Instapaper has removed starring and replaced it with a Facebook-esque “like” feature. You can now follow other Instapaper users, allowing you to see and read the posts that they’ve liked. The app’s browser has been rewritten so that you can browse any site and share it from within the app....

2 min · 405 words · Sandra Hernandez

Instaport: Download your entire Instagram archive for backup or upload

As an avid Instagram user, I’m always looking for cool new ways to use the service. No matter what apps I use to take pictures, I always seem to end up putting them through Instagram to share them with my friends and family. That means that I end up with a ton of photos in Instagram or in my iPhone’s camera roll. This makes it harder to share whole albums of Instagram photos with other services like Picasa, Flickr, Google+ or Facebook....

2 min · 414 words · Mrs. Theresa Reeves

Instead of ‘rush hour,’ we now have the ‘rush afternoon’ — thanks, COVID

This article was originally published bySarah WrayonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. New analysis of anonymized location data casts doubt on US cities’ hopes of avoiding a car-led recovery. The report from transport analytics company StreetLight Data shows that while the number of vehicle miles travelled (VMT) in February 2021 was still 12% below the previous year, by March 2021 it rose to nearly 2% above the February 2020 pre-pandemic baseline....

3 min · 626 words · James Herrera

Institutional bias and lower acceptance rates for women: Inside the AI conference review process

Institutional bias and lower acceptance rates for women: Inside the AI conference review process The AI conference review process The paper focuses on the ICLR review process, though other conferences use similar methodologies. Each AI paper submitted to the conference goes through several steps before being accepted or rejected. The process involves, reviewers, area chairs, and program chairs. Area chairs are experts that have experience in specific domains, such as computer vision and natural language processing....

9 min · 1719 words · Jennifer Smith

IntaFeen: Overcoming huge challenges to launch the Egyptian check-in culture

IntaFeenis an Egypt-based alternative to Foursquare, available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia users. The app is one of many projects coming out ofWireless Stars, a 6 man team of Egyptians who left Silicon Valley in favour of returning to Alexandria and putting down roots. We caught up with Wael Nafee, the Head of Mobile Development at Wireless Stars’, and a former Aptina Imaging employee, to find out more about Wireless Stars, their first project, IntaFeen, and their future plans for the company....

7 min · 1422 words · Paul Stewart
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