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Facebook Launches Live Audio Rooms for Global Audience!

The largest social media platform Facebook has launched an audio hub for podcasts and live chats for people around the globe. Earlier this year, the company had announced several audio-based features, and now they have introduced a hub for these updates. One such amazing feature is Facebook’s Live Audio Rooms, which the platform has begun …

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Instagram to roll out AI-based anti-bullying feature for posts

Instagram to roll out AI-based anti-bullying feature for posts

Instagram has more than a billion user and the number is still growing exponentially. Being under the umbrella of bigwig Facebook, Instagram has received a number of features after Facebook took over it a few years ago. Facebook, on the other hand, has invested heavily in developing artificial intelligence for various aspects of day-to-day life …

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Google to shut down Google+ citing data breach of over 500K people

Google to shut down Google+ citing data breach of over 500K people

Google, the Cupertino-based search engine now owned by Alphabet Inc, will shut down the Facebook-like social networking site Google+ that was launched in 2012 for consumer and organizations as a separate product where consumers got it for free unless organizations. According to the latest progress in the Google+ story, Google testified on Monday (Oct 8) …

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Instagram is rolling out three new ‘security’ features starting September

In an effort to create a streamlined and safest environment on Instagram, the social media giant owned by Facebook is taking measures to create the community of more than one billion users, safe. Instagram has rolled out a number of tools to scrutinize the authenticity of an account and to provide added privacy to the …

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Here's how you can get blue verified badge on Instagram

Here’s how you can get blue verified badge on Instagram

Who wouldn’t like a blue badge on their Instagram handle stating that their account is verified? Although it doesn’t logically adds value but it is satisfying to have a blue verified badge in front of the username on Instagram but it isn’t simple to achieve. Up til now, Instagram undertook a stringent procedure to verify …

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YouTube now let's you track the time spent watching videos

YouTube now let’s you track the time spent watching videos

Google rolled out the Android 9.0 Pie version on its Google Pixel devices among other devices earlier this month. Android Pie is trying out a feature ‘digital wellbeing’ that deals with calculating the time spent on each app so that users can analyze their usage and limit it in order to curb addiction of smartphones. …

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Facebook is testing out feature that connects strangers with common interests

Facebook is testing out feature that connects strangers with common interests

Bored with the usual stuff on Facebook trying to find new friends, waiting for them to accept your friend’s request? Well, Facebook is currently testing out a new feature that would display other’s interests in case if you have something in common with a non-friend on Facebook you happen to meet on Facebook such as …

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Social networking sites might have reached 'Social Peak' in terms of daily users

Social networking sites might have reached ‘Social Peak’ in terms of daily users

The number of daily active users (DAU) is coming to a standstill for major social networking sites according to the data gathered for the latest quarter. Social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat has registered a decline in the number of daily users. Per the data, Snapchat reported a drop in DAU on …

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Facebook Dating app is in the making; Currently in internal testing phase

Facebook Dating app is in the making; Currently in internal testing phase

Back in May at the F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a dating feature on Facebook named as ‘Facebook Dating’ and today, we have started receiving updates on how it will actually look since Facebook is running a beta test of this product on its internal employees. Per the screenshots posted by app researcher Jane Manchun …

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Facebook & Instagram will strictly block underage users from their platforms

Facebook & Instagram will strictly block underage users from their platforms

Facebook and Instagram will block underaged users i.e. those less than the age of 13 for their respective platforms according to the recent policy update. Earlier, the moderators and reviewers working with Facebook and Instagram would block profiles of those accounts that were specifically reported for being used by underaged people while others who weren’t …

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Instagram will soon unveil more secure two-factor authentication system for its users

Instagram will soon unveil more secure two-factor authentication system for its users

Following a report published by Motherboard about the concerns with SIM hacking and how user’s account can be hacked with SIM hacking, Instagram has announced rolling out the feature of non-SIM two-factor authentication that eliminates the risk of getting hacked as opposed to the SIM-based two-factor authentication system which is easy to hack. Although Instagram …

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After YouTube, Instagram went down for hours affecting millions of users

After YouTube, Instagram goes down for hours affecting millions of users

Friday was the worst day for all the foodies, photographers, and all the people who love taking selfies and posting it because Instagram was reportedly inaccessible due to a bug that caused problem accessing the photo-sharing site across North America, South America and some parts of Europe where millions of people were affected citing the …

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Apple shares the stats for the 'App Store' celebrating its tenth anniversary

Apple shares the stats for the ‘App Store’ celebrating its tenth anniversary

On July 10, 2018 (Tuesday), Apple will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the App Store. The App Store was introduced back on July 10, 2008, with only 500 apps like Travelocity, The New York Times, and others. In a decade, Apple’s App Store has reached many milestones over the years and received a huge response …

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A newly found bug on Facebook affected more than 800,000 users

A newly found bug on Facebook affected more than 800,000 users

Yet another bug was recently discovered and reportedly fixed on Facebook after it affected some 800,000 users by unblocking one or more blocked profiles on their Facebook accounts whom they had blocked earlier. On Monday, July 2, Facebook announced the update regarding a bug that tweaked the blocking app on Facebook that allows users to …

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Facebook to release a feature that tracks time spent on its Android app

Facebook to release a feature that tracks time spent on its Android app

Soon, Facebook will have a feature called “Your Time on Facebook” on its app that will facilitate users to track how much time they spend on the app each day. Facebook is currently developing the feature which is supposedly under wrap as no official statement has been released. As of now, engineer Jane Manchun Wong …

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