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Facebook Launches “Live” Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile live-streaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans. Today, Facebook is launching “Live” as a feature in its Mentions app that’s only available to celebrities with a verified Page. VIPs can start a Live broadcast that’s posted to the News Feed, watch comments overlaid in real-time on their stream, and then make the recording permanently available for viewing. Stars like The Rock and Serena Williams will stream today. As for when the average user might get broadcast abilities, Live product manager Vadim Lavrusik wouldn’t say, but told me “We think this will be an awesome experience for both public figures and also users. We want to get feedback from both public figures and viewers as we evolve the product.” Why should celebrities use Facebook Live instead of Pe...

When OneLogin Platform Engineer Isis Wenger agreed to participate in the company’s recruiting campaign, she felt pretty apathetic about it. She also didn’t anticipate the backlash that has come from it. “As a genuine introvert I have never cared much about gaining public attention and I really wasn’t prepared for how much everything blew up,” Wenger told me in an email. “Honestly when I see ads, I don’t think much of them and I certainly don’t try to read deeply into them. It was surprising to me to see that other people did.” The ad, pictured above, is part of OneLogin’s efforts to recruit more engineers. The recruiting campaign featured several of OneLogin’s engineers along with statements about why they like working at the company. For ultimate visibility, OneLogin put up the ads in both BART and MUNI stations at Embarcadero in San Francisco, OneLogin Director of Design and Brand Experience Chloë Bregman, who was in charge of t...

If you followed the Google Glass saga, you remember that everything started out pretty hunky dory. There was an exciting demo that included people jumping out of a plane. Then there were developers in line to pay $1,500 to have a play with them and build apps for the hardware. It was a developer-only program. What could go wrong? In the early days of Glass, numerous folks close to the project complained openly to me about one thing over and over again. Why would someone give a pair of Glass to well-known technology evangelist and former Microsoft employee Robert Scoble? I knew exactly what they were talking about. The “shower” incident. The BuzzFeed headline? “This Photo Of A Man Showering With Google Glass Will Haunt You For The Rest Of Your Life” And the photo. Oh, the horrible horrible photo: There are many who still work at Google who shudder at the thought of Glass in the shower with Scoble. In a way, it stalled all of the goodwill momentum the company had...

Windows 10: While Microsoft brought back the Start menu in Windows 8.1 and now in Windows 10, it's still not quite what it used to be. If you're not enjoying the new look, bring back the Windows 7-style Start menu with Start10. Start10, the successor to Start8, is still in beta, but I've tested it on the release version of Windows 10 and it works just fine. So if you don't like the new live tiles on Windows 10's Start menu and want something that functions more like the Start menu from Windows 7, Start10 may be just the ticket. It even features a skinnable Start button. There's a 30-day free trial for you to check it out. The purchase price is $4.99 (or $3.99 if you're upgrading from Start8). And don't forget, we've covered other Start menu replacements in the past and it looks like most of them are working just fine with Windows 10 . So take the time to choose what's right for you.

iOS: Fantastical is   one of our favorite calendars on iOS   and today it gets a handy new drafts feature that allows you save events as drafts so you can dig through your appointments to reference other items. When you create a new event, drag down on the screen to enter the drafts mode. Here, you can look through your calendar to see if your new events is conflicting with something. You can create multiple drafts of calendar appointments or reminders here, so you can easily make sure you're not double-booking yourself.

PSA: Enable This Setting to Password Protect Facebook Payments Facebook has been quietly rolling out a feature that allows you to send money to your friends via Messenger. By default, however, there's no password or PIN protection at all for your payments. Here's how to enable it. Facebook's send payments feature is rolling out now, and it's displayed so prominently, you might have discovered it by accident. The button is directly next to the text box on the desktop, and it even turns any dollar figure you type into a clickable link to send money. That's neat if you want to share payments. However, Facebook requires no authentication of any kind by default for sending money. If you already have a payment method associated with your Facebook account (say, for spending money in apps), this could make it pretty easy for someone with access to your logged-in Facebook account to send themselves or someone else money. To prevent this, follow these steps...

 Week's Top Downloads The Best Address Book App for iPhone We've seen a ton of address book apps for the iPhone, but most have struggled because they rely on social network integration that tends to break after a few months. Because of that, we like Simpler Contacts, which keeps things simple, but has enough features to set it apart from the default app. iOS 8.4 Jailbreak Is Now Available for Mac iOS/Mac: The iOS 8.3-8.4 jailbreak as released a few weeks ago, but it was limited to Windows users. Now, there's a Mac version. WifiMapper Launches on Android with Some Exclusive New Features WifiMapper, the iOS app that helps you find free Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, launches today in the Google Play Store with some useful Android-only features. HBO Now Arrives On Android and Amazon Devices If you're a fan of HBO Now, the streaming HBO service you can watch without a cable subscription, you used to have to sign up on an iPhone or iPad. Well, HB...