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Google just launched its FaceTime competitor, a one-to-one video calling app for iOS and Android. We saw a brief demo at Google I/O earlier this year -- its cool video preview feature is quite memorable. 🙂

Duo looks like an impressive addition to a crowded space of new video messaging that includes Tribe, Bunch, Airtime, and of course Snapchat.

Want to fly to Portugal in November, for free? We've teamed up with theSkimm, Food52, Hipmunk, Savoteur and Web Summit to give away 2 free tickets to one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe. Previous guests include everyone from Bono to Elon Musk. Enter for your chance to win:

🔑 Access to all stages at the Web Summit
💵 $500 voucher towards accommodation
✈️ Round trip economy flights to beautiful Lisbon

Also, this Thursday learn more about Web Summit from the Co-Founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave.

Make your home smarter by befriending Alexa and getting a Nest, Dropcam, and some Philips Hues. You know, the typical smart home companions. Here are some lesser known, handy gadgets for the home:

⛅️ Brilliance brings the outside world to your home with Philips Hue lights

🤖 Houndify adds a voice-enabled conversational interface to anything

🔌 Reset Plug automatically resets your router & modem when the WiFi fails (while eero and Plume will make sure it never drops in the first place)

🔓 August and Lockitron are two excellent smart locks

🍓 Grove Ecosystem helps you grow fresh herbs, lettuce & fruit indoors all year round (Leaf grows the cannabis)

For more, follow the Smart Home Topic on Product Hunt, and check out these 12 Must-Have Smart Home Products on Medium.

Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s new retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.

So, we looked way back to the depths of Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:

👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at it's fines
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time

Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂

There's a recent trend in photo editing apps that are simply magic. They go way beyond what Instagram originally did with filters, by turning your regular photos into art. Some of our favorites:

• DeepArt turn your pics into artsy masterpieces using algorithms
• The hugely popular Prisma added some amazing new filters recently
• Artisto is like Prisma, but for videos (like the one above)
• Upload photos into Emoji Mosaic to get incredible emoji creations
• Pikazo uses artificial intelligence to create LaCroix faces

For more, check out the full collection on Product Hunt, and here's Michael Phelps demonstrating the effects of 7 of the most popular ones. 🏊🏅🐐

10 months ago, Twitter Moments launched with mixed reaction:

"Given how much I truly enjoy the Discover feature on Snapchat and the ability to check out live events, I'm really excited for this." —Cat Noone

"It's so so late, and maybe unforgivably so" —Mischa Nachtigal

"I gotta be honest.... I think this is going to be a bust." —Seth Miller

Today, Twitter announced you too will be able to create Moments. Read the full announcement.

Late last week, rumors spread that Walmart was in talks to buy Jet, a two-year-old startup, for $3b (yes, a billy). This morning, rumors were confirmed with their cash buyout of the Amazon competitor.

This is one of many startups acquired this year. Snapchat gobbled up Bitmoji for $100m, Facebook bought this wacky augmented reality app, and Shots picked up this Musical.ly competitor. The M&A market is heating up.

Happy Friday! The Olympics is starting. A perfect time to highlight some of the latest and greatest H̶e̶a̶l̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶F̶i̶t̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ Drinking Products:

⛄️ The Whisky Wedge says goodbye to your watered down drinks
🍻 Bar Tab shows a cool bar in your area when opening a new tab
🍹 Highball App lets you share and collect fun cocktail recipes
🌀 Lush is a simple & beautiful drink mixing app
🍸 Swizzle is Tinder for cocktails

Congrats to Drizly who just raised $15 million to power liquor-based e-commerce and alcohol delivery. 🎉

(Special thanks to Chris Messina's for curating the #Drinks Collection)

Between our desktop at work and home screen on the phone, we stare at our devices all day long. Mix up the scenery with some lovely new wallpaper and screensaver tools:

🕘 The Padbury Clock (above) is a minimalist screensaver for Mac
💻 Desktopr lets you turn any website into your Mac wallpaper
🌌 WLPPR has gorgeous mobile wallpapers from satellite imagery 
📽 SaveHollywood plays movies and trailers as your screensaver
🦁 Live Desktop makes your wallpaper come alive with animated themes

And if you're not into screensavers (or need to prevent your computer from going to sleep) Caffeine does just that. ☕️👌

Freelancing is a common career path, and it's becoming more popular. But with great freedom comes responsibility to find work, manage clients, and take a shower when WFH. These products will help:

⚖ GigRove is like Airbnb for freelancer jobs
🙌 99Deductions translates freelancer tax returns into plain English
🗄 Freelancer Stack is a curated directory of tools used by freelancers
💫 Proppy lets you create beautiful client proposals in an instant 
🤖 AND CO automates your business by combining a human with AI
💰 Freelance Rate Explorer shows you the rates charged by thousands of freelancers and designers

For more, follow the Freelance Topic on Product Hunt and read about the 11 Must-Have Resources & Tools for Freelancers on Medium.