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It’s almost that time of year. Following festive holiday dinners and gift exchanges, many switch focus to the new year and their 2022 goals. Although exercising, organizing that clutter room or even reading more may be on the list of resolutions, what about boosting your personal privacy and better protecting your data while searching the …

Short-form video app TikTok has come a long way since its 2016 launch, reporting 1 billion active monthly users in September, despite its conflicted history with the US government. TikTok’s popularity skyrocketed in the US during the pandemic and the app seems to have found a permanent place in our cultural zeitgeist.  Hubspot reported that 96% of surveyed consumers said …

Law enforcement agencies and school districts across the country said they were aware of anonymous posts on short-form video app TikTok that alleged school shootings would take place in the US on Dec. 17 but concluded the threat wasn’t credible. The alleged threats prompted school districts across the country to take precautions. Police departments around the country also said they’d keep …

It’s mid-December, and Snapchat has joined Facebook, Instagram and Spotify in launching its year in review feature. A Look Back at 2021 will round up a random assortment of your snaps from the year across categories like pets, water, filters and staying in. Here’s how to see, send and save your 2021 Snapchat highlights 1. Open the Snapchat app to …

When the company formerly known as Facebook made the shift to Meta, there were a lot of questions about what that would look like in practice. Today, as Meta celebrates its self-described made-up holiday “Quest Day,” we’re starting to get some answers. VR brand Oculus has now been absorbed into parent company Meta, and this celebration is the first direct effort …

Messaging platform WhatsApp recently changed its Last Seen feature, which will no longer display to unknown contacts by default. So if you haven’t chatted with someone before, they’ll no longer be able to see information about your activity on the app. Before, you’d have to manually change your Last Seen settings to “My Contacts” if you wanted to hide your …

Smart glasses were supposed to be the next big thing… nearly a decade ago. Fast forward to 2021, and they’ve failed to become part of our daily lives, reduced to a mostly forgotten corner of consumer tech history.  Chinese consumer electronics giant Oppo wants to change that and has taken its first commercial stab at making smart glasses a thing. …

Products like 3D televisions and 3D phones give 3D a bad name. Part of the problem is that 3D is hyped as the start of a new product category, instead of being seen as a tool for expression. Lucid, the company behind the LucidPix app, smartly embraces 3D’s role as a creative tool. Whether you have a newer phone like the Google Pixel 6 or …

As far as Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts were concerned, it was pretty slim pickings when it came to the Oculus Quest 2. The best we saw was a free gift card with purchase, but no actual drops in price. While the 128GB model stubbornly remains at $299, if you’re committed to getting your hands on one of these …

Facebook has launched its yearly highlight feature, with users able to check their top friendships, reactions and checkins for 2021.  The feature, which includes the three categories labeled by Facebook as “the friendships,” “the sparks” and “the places,” will be available globally by Friday. “Here’s to the things that meant the most, and kept us close in a year we …