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Shazam App Updated to Sync With iPhone’s Built-In Music Recognition Feature

Shazam, the popular music recognition service, has updated its iPhone and iPad app so that songs identified with the Music Recognition feature in iOS now sync with the Shazam app. For those unfamiliar with Shazam, the app is designed to listen for music that’s playing, providing a song title and artist for identification purposes. Apple’s…

Upnext is a nice read-later app — and the very beginning of something bigger

Upnext is a dumping ground for all your content, no matter what it is. | Image: Upnext Upnext is a read-later app. No, it’s a bookmarking app. No, it’s a content-curation-social-network thing. Even Jeroen Seghers, one of the service’s co-founders, struggles to explain it. “Longer term,” he says, “I like to think about what we’re…

Paladin Cloud launches open source platform for cloud security and governance

While the cloud is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the modern business world, companies migrating to remote infrastructure face a host of challenges — and arguably chief among them is the issue of security. Hosting applications and data in the cloud is a reality for countless companies today. But knowing exactly what’s going on…

Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia

Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”; but it’s also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up: the never-ending battle to combat it. In the latest development on that front, Facebook parent Meta today announced a new tool called Sphere, an AI tool built around…