Grey London has developed Marks & Spencer’s first bot for Messenger: The Marks & Spencer Christmas Concierge. The service, which sits inside Facebook Messenger, offers customers inspiration to help them plan their perfect Christmas. Users can opt-in to receive daily tips on food, hosting and presents. They can also browse and shop from a series […]
Google has launched an app dedicated to helping people to control the data they consume and save it through public wi-fi. The app, called Datally, enables users to see the data usage on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and receive suggestions on how they can save more data. In addition, it features […]
Google’s other navigation app, Waze, started rolling out an Android and iOS app update that brings highly requested features to the crowdsourced navigation app. While regular navigation apps let you choose your form of transportation from options including a car, bike, and train, Waze now has support for motorcycles as well. With the update, drivers […]
Snapchat has rolled out a long-awaited update that has separated friend content from brand and media videos from the Discover section in an attempt to make the app easier to navigate. The social media app is putting an emphasis on user generated content by grouping friends’ Stories, their Bitmojis and Chats together on the […]
The next evolution in mobile instant messaging launches on the Apple App Store on November 28. PlayHit is a free keyboard app that moves the experience of texting friends beyond words and images. The era of the audio GIF has arrived. Want Adele to sing “Hello” to a friend? PlayHit’s predictive text technology suggests real-time […]
Kuato Studios, a London-based independent games studio, has teamed up with multiple Golden Melody Award-winning Chinese-American recording artist Leehom Wang to create the ‘first ever’ AR music video. My A.I. Date with Leehom Wang gives fans the chance to experience a digital date with the singer-songwriter through face-mapping technology. Built for the iOS11 ARKit, the AR […]
This holiday, the LEGO Gift Bot, Ralph, is here to make sure every wish clicks into place! We’ve all been there… every year Christmas pops up and surprises us! Next things you know, the gift buying rush begins and we feel drowned in indecision. What gifts to buy? What will your sister’s eldest want this […]
Professional photographer, Sharon Latham, has joined forces with Apadmi and England goalkeeper, Joe Hart, to create a travel selfie app. Selfie Guide guides you around the world and helps you take the perfect selfie. The Lancashire photographer said she was inspired by the “abundance” of poorly taken selfies and she wanted to create an app, which […]
Asos is among the first brand to toy with Snapchat’s new Promoted Stories feature, released November 24, which the messaging app has touted as a way for advertisers “tell deeper stories”. The format has opened up Snapchat’s most popular user feature to brands, letting them string together images and videos which disappear within 24 hours […]
Twitter has begun testing a feature which enables users to privately save tweets that interest them to look at later. News of the feature – which is called ‘Bookmarks’ – first surfaced in October, when Twitter product manager Jesar Shah revealed a prototype of the feature. Back then, it was dubbed ‘save for later’. For Hack Week […]