| All the Stories you can stand, video buoyed the Twitter star and more in The Daily Crunch for May 23, 2017. Plus AI is still trouncing pathetic humans at their own board games of skill. 1. Instagram lets you search across stories Instagram now lets users search for hashtags and locations across stories, which is another trick it borrowed from Snapchat's playbook. Which is its playbook, too. I don't even care who's copying who anymore. They've succeeded in making me so bored by the process that all I care about is whether it works for me when I go to actually use it. Which is probably the ideal outcome for FB/Insta. 
2. Snapchat creates custom Stories Instagram's next feature will be custom Stories shared with select friends or by geofence, because that's what Snapchat just launched today. Also, sun will set in the west, rise in the east. 3. Instagram now lets you keep those bad posts Lots of Instagram users regularly delete posts, generally in an effort to hide their shame when something doesn't get enough likes. It's an understandable impulse, but Instagram wants users to have the option to revisit that bad crap later on with a new Archive feature that keeps those around for a while just in case, letting you restore them if you want. 4. Twitter has a new head of live video Twitter's new head of live video is Todd Swidler, who was at a games company as CEO previously and was also head of video distribution and partnerships at Bloomberg before that. The social network is betting a lot on live video – maybe everything, given its recent trajectory. 5. Surface Pro update looks good Microsoft is keeping the outside the same on the new Surface Pro (numbering system dropped) but the insides are all new, and there's a new Pen to go with it. This looks like a good machine – Apple really needs to step up their game to keep pace with Microsoft in notebooks, tbh. 6. Quora now has a self-serve ad platform Quora now has a self-serve ad platform. The question is, does the Q&A platform itself still have any value, or is it just a glorified Yahoo! Answers at this stage? 7. AlphaGo AI beats another master human opponent Google DeepMind's Go playing AI has bested another human player, and while the score was technically close, it probably wasn't actually even a contest: The AI isn't programmed to run up the score, just to win as effectively as possible. | 
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