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A video of three golden tortoise beetles (Charidotella Sexpunctata) crawling on a man's palm, has become a social media sensation. "Sometimes, all that glitters is gold. The Golden Tortoise Beetle found in Southeastern Asia," wrote Indian Forest Service officer Susanta Nanda, who posted the video on his Twitter page. The 17-second clip went viral with over 10,000 views.

The beetle species, known as Charidotella Sexpunctata, resembling an impressive metallic gold, has caught the attention of nature lovers. Turtle beetles have a unique defense mechanism – when troubled, they turn a reddish-brown color! They can play dead and adhere to the surface of leaves and other surfaces, making it nearly impossible for insects to eat them.

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Turn your pictures into stories with Speaking Photo, an app that lets you add sound to any photo. It allows you to tell a story along with the image before you share it on Facebook, YouTube or via email. The storyboard feature gives users a chance to select multiple photo/audio pairs and customize their play order, creating a larger movie to share. Available for iOS and Android.

With SpeakPic, the voice of the translator will be really fun for you and friends.
Have you thought about making your friend sing his/her team's anthem? Or maybe an unexpected declaration of love. With SpeakPic, anything is possible.

You can change the voice with different effects to make the end result even funnier.
There are dozens of voices to choose from, in multiple languages.

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Lovers of the selfie rejoice! GoCam is a new app that uses touchless technology to let snap selfies. Developed by Swedish tech start-up Crunchfish, the iOS app lets users trigger photos or videos from a distance of up to 10 feet with simple gestures to control your smartphone camera. They can be edited with the included high quality filters and editing tools, and shared on social networks. So no more rushing into your best pose, take your time and trigger the shot when ready!

This unique app has been appropriately named GoCam for iOS devices.  By using gestures to control your camera, the app provides an amazing camera for taking selfies and groupies without touching your phone screen. Now the user doesn't need to rush into her favourite pose or hold it for long time intervals just to get that perfect click. With GoCam, you just have to set your phone and click a photograph whenever you are ready with the app intelligent detect your gesture and click the photo.

The company boosts that GoCam is the very first touchless camera application in the market with video recording, which allows the user to record videos touchless. The app lets the user capture spontaneous moments and then make the photos personal with filters and editing tools before sharing it with friends and family.

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Log into Facebook. On the homepage click on the small lock icon on the upper right side. It will drop a settings menu. Click on 'See More Settings'. This will take you to a new page of settings. On the left sidebar, click on 'Blocking' to reach the 'Manage Blocking' page. Look for 'Block app invites' to block requests from a friend. To block requests from all friends for the given app, look for 'Block apps'. For either of the options, start searching for a friend or an app in the respective boxes. Once you find them, click to add to the blocked list. That's it. No more annoying game invitations.

Facebook has a page dedicated to letting you manage how apps interact with your account. It shows all of the apps you've used Facebook to log into, so it's worth reviewing while you're managing blocking on your account.

Head to Settings > Apps and Websites on Facebook to access this. You'll see three boxes under Preferences, which we'll discuss in a moment.

Also on the Apps and Websites page, you'll see a second box titled Game and App Notifications. Click Edit, then Turn Off to hide all notifications from games and apps.

If you don't care about any content from these apps or don't want to block them individually using the above controls, this is a handy way to stop all notifications in one sweep. It doesn't affect the games themselves, so you can continue to play them.

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