WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram were all down for hours on Monday. This global outage not only cost Facebook billions of dollars but also boosted rival platforms. Telegram reportedly gained seventy million new users as people looked for WhatsApp’s alternative messaging…
Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and Facebook’s former chief of security Alex Stamos believes operating system makers Apple and Google should do their part in keeping kids safe from social media apps. Stamos says lawmakers should be looking to…
WhatsApp has released a new beta 2.21.200.11 update for iOS which includes a new chat interface and the ability to set different durations for disappearing messages. WABetaInfo found that the social messaging service has added new improvements for disappearing messages…
YouTube now allows its premium subscribers to video download videos on the web. The option to download videos on a WiFi connection gives users the freedom to watch them offline whenever and wherever they want and it helps them save…
Unicode recently launched version 14.0 of its language coding standard with 37 new emojis, over 800 new characters, and more. The new emojis include a melting face, heart hands, a person with a crown, an identification card, and more. Though…
Developer Alessandro Paluzzi has discovered that Instagram is developing a new ‘Favorites’ feature for iOS. The feature will allow users to add the accounts they like in their ‘Favorites’ list so that posts by Favorite accounts appear on top of…
To expand security on its platform, WhatsApp is going to secure iCloud backup with end-to-end encryption later this year. The new security feature is built on a two-factor authentication framework for key storage and cloud storage to allow iOS and…
Facebook has finally announced its long-rumored smartglasses in partnership with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. The $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses are available in 20 different style options and can be connected to an iOS or Android device for full functionality. Facebook…
Twitter is testing another new feature ‘Communities’. As an invite-based feature, Communities will allow users to connect to other users with similar interests on the platform to engage in informative and fun discussions and more. Currently, the new feature is available…
Twitter has announced that it is testing two new features on the platform: the ability to remove followers without blocking them and for iOS users to share edge-to-edge photos and videos on the app. The social media company is regularly…
