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Developer FiftyThree is best known for Paper, one of the most iconic drawing apps for the iPad since it was released in 2012. But earlier this year, the company quietly released its second major application: Paste, an incredibly nice-looking slideshow app for the web with deep integration into Slack that looked to redesign the humble slide deck for a modern, team-based, collaborative work environment. And now, Paste is finally making its way to the platform people know FiftyThree for best: the iPad and iPhone.

Computers are getting better at recognising faces and shapes and making connections between images, heralding a new age of visual search that could transform the way we interact with the world around us.
Have you ever searched Google maps for a destination, asked it for directions, then walked off in completely the wrong direction?
I have, plenty of times – and I’m way down the street before the arrow on my phone jolts into the right position telling me I’m getting colder, not hotter.

Jennifer Jolly takes us inside the Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, where a groundbreaking new VR simulation is helping train doctors to better save the lives of children. It’s part of Facebook’s Oculus for Good program. Jennifer Jolly/Special for USA TODAY

Cher Horowitz’s closet from the film “Clueless” had a futuristic computer system that helped her put together outfits. Back in 1995, the concept teased what it might be like to get dressed in the future.
Technology has evolved a lot since then, but closets have been largely untouched by innovation.
Now, that’s starting to change.
“If algorithms do their job well, people will spend less time thinking about what to wear,” said Ranjitha Kumar, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.