Instagram is giving more power to the hashtag. As of Tuesday, it announced, you can now not only follow people, but hashtags too. There’s some good news and bad news here. Spoiler: it’s mainly bad news. First, the good news. This is quite a nifty feature. I, having completely mainstream hobbies, have been getting really …
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Sometimes there are people on your Facebook feed you just don’t want to see for a while. The social network says it wants to help. Facebook on Friday globally released a feature called Snooze that lets users hide certain people, groups or brand pages for up to 30 days, without permanently unfriending or unfollowing them. When the snooze window is …
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President Donald Trump’s FCC has put the kibosh on controversial Obama-era net neutrality regulations. At its monthly meeting Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission, led by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal regulation passed in 2015 that prevented broadband companies from blocking or slowing access to websites or services. The rules also prohibited broadband companies from offering paid-priority services that …
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I’m attached to my phone. I use it to keep in touch with friends, feed my social media obsession and take Instagram-worthy pictures of my travels. Pretty much what you’d expect from any 23-year-old, right? But my phone is important to me for another reason. It helps me stay on top of my religious obligations as an observant Muslim. I …
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Internet service providers got an early Christmas gift. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules, handing the broadband and wireless industries a big victory in their battle against government oversight of the internet. The Republican-led FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to dismantle the 2015 regulations, which ensured all traffic on the internet is treated …
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Facebook on Monday announced Messenger Kids, a somewhat closed-down messaging app for children ages 6-12. The app doesn’t require the child to sign up for a Facebook account, relies on the parent(s) to add any contacts and hides the child from any sort of public searches on the social network. Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Messenger now lets kids chat …
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Facebook opened its new London headquarters on Monday with the announcement that it is creating 800 new jobs in the UK. The new office is situated just off Oxford Street, the British capital’s central shopping hub, and incorporates the company’s first in-house startup incubator called LDN_LAB. “Today’s announcements show that Facebook is more committed than ever to the UK and …
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With over 2 billion users today, Facebook is already the world’s biggest social network. But the company is looking ahead to tomorrow, and it’s decided that a big new market of opportunity is with younger users. To join Facebook or its free chat app Messenger, you need to be at least 13 years old. But Facebook on Monday announced Messenger …
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Trading in or selling your old mobile device? Wipe it the right way to reduce the risk of personal data falling into the wrong hands. Remember that no method apart from physically destroying the device and its storage is 100 percent foolproof — data may still be recoverable with the right tools. These tips are for the three main mobile …
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Get ready to watch a lot more bite-size videos on YouTube. Reels, a feature announced Wednesday, lets YouTube’s “creator” community string together videos of up to 30 seconds long to fashion a sort of playlist separate from their other work. It’s the latest example of a tech company borrowing from Snapchat’s popular “stories” function, which was instrumental in making Snapchat …
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