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Instagram is expanding its test to hide likes. During Friday’s WIRED25 event, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced a number of U.S. users would see the Instagram like counts disappear as soon as next week. Mosseri did not provide details on the scale of the test, simply stating it wouldn’t be “the whole U.S. at once.” “There’s a couple of […]
Boston Dynamics routinely scare the world by showing how capable its robots are, but now it’s the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s turn. In a new video published by MIT, the Mini Cheetah robots and their capabilities are shown. The small quadrupedal robots are able to do backflips and hop around, and according to MIT they’re also […]
Some cell phone users have reported receiving months-old text messages on Wednesday night. People have been receiving messages that were originally sent on or around Valentine’s Day 2019, The Verge reports. These people never got the text messages in the first place, and the senders didn’t know the messages hadn’t been received. My friend […]
Even the best minds need a little something extra to get them through the day. It’s a digital kind of world, and we’re just trying to live in it, but Silicon Valley-based tech executive John Imah is one of the few geniuses chosen to create it – and we just want to know his secrets. […]
There might be some major changes ahead for Twitter. Dantley Davis, Twitter’s vice president of design and research, took to the social media platform on Monday night to share some features he’s “looking forward to in 2020,” which could mean fundamental changes to how the site works. Ideas included changing how retweets work, and how […]
Apple has announced it will take a big step in helping combat the housing crisis in California. The tech giant revealed a $2.5 billion plan to help ease the housing and affordability crisis in the state, a problem that many believe it helped cause by drawing more workers to California. With the increasing number of […]
Some of the most high-profile, hyped video games of 2019 are arriving this November. But that pales in comparison to the biggest news of the month, which is that Google is entering the video game market. And how does the search engine behemoth plan to win the modern-day console wars? In counterintuitive fashion: by eliminating […]
Google has announced that it’s acquiring Fitbit, one of the world’s top maker of wearable fitness activity trackers. The deal is worth around $2.1 billion and is one of Google’s biggest purchases, CNN reports. The tech company has previously had a hard time breaking into the smartwatches and wearable device market, but buying Fitbit could […]
Twitter will no longer run political advertisements, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵 — jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) October 30, 2019 “A political message earns reach when people decide […]
Facebook is banning the inappropriate use of emojis. In July, Facebook updated the language section of its Community Standards policy to address acceptable sexual expressions on its social media sites. These new terms went into effect this Sept. and they prohibit pairing an emoji, such as the eggplant or peach emojis, with sexual statements. Doing so is now considered “sexual solicitation” and can […]
