Yahoo Mail introduces new look

Yahoo Mail's trying to play catch up in the heavily populated email app industry with the redesign of its Android and iOS apps. The new look and features are said to make it more powerful and easier to use. A new feature hopes to rid your life of passwords. The Yahoo Account Key makes its debut in this new update. It makes use of push notifications to give you a "fast and secure way" to access Yahoo accounts.

Some of the other new features include a more prominent photo experience with Twitter and Facebook integration, no more avatars, simpler way to attach photos to emails, new contact cards, long press for multi-selection, quick swipe to mark emails as read or deleted, as well as a shortcut to Yahoo News. Yahoo claims it should also handle search for keywords and people better. And for those who use multiple Yahoo accounts, Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL Mail, you can now integrate those into the app.

Source: Droid Life | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple App Store (Free)

Join a Skype conversation right from a direct link

Here's a convenient feature we hope Microsoft's Skype brings to our shores soon: join chats right from a direct link. It doesn't even require the people you invite to have a Skype account. All you need to do is send a link to someone, say, through Facebook Messenger and have them join your current chat session on Skype. They don't even need to have the app installed because there's Skype for Web. The guests can join video conversations, send instant messages, and make voice calls. Those who do have Skype accounts and the mobile app can do so through links on Android and iOS. It's now available for users in the US and the UK but will be coming to other countries in the next couple of weeks. Skype also plans to introduce then the ability to share direct links from the mobile apps but they won't give a timeline yet when that will happen.

Source: SlashGear

Apple's iWork productivity suite gets iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan ready

It might be a bit late but Apple updated its Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps to add iOS 9 and OS X features to it. The iWork productivity suite from Apple gets split-screen multitasking on the iPad and the desktop apps and 3D touch support on the iPhone. So, if you rely heavily on Apple's tools, this update should be a much-awaited one. You can check out the list of the new features over here.

Source: The Verge 

New ResearchKit studies for autism, epilepsy and melanoma released by Apple

Apple announced that ResearchKit is enabling new research studies on autism, epilepsy and melanoma. ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research by helping doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone apps.

With ResearchKit, study participants can review an interactive informed consent process, easily complete active tasks or submit survey responses, and choose how their health data is shared with researchers, making contributions to medical research easier than ever. Researchers and developers have already contributed to ResearchKit, with more than 50 researchers adding to the open source framework.

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