Patreon, which gives fans a way to pay their favorite creators on a recurring basis, on Tuesday introduced Lens, a feature similar to Instagram or Snapchat Stories that gives patrons special access to their favorite creators’ behind-the-scenes peeks. The feature, which is part of Patreon’s mobile app, lets creators take photos and videos with their …
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Though it has other features like water resistance and its Google Lens software, the Pixel 2 phone is primarily known for its superb camera. That’s because the device is equipped with a custom-made image processing unit (IPU) known as Pixel Visual Core, which will now be accessible to third-party apps like Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp with an upcoming update. Enlarge …
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Instagram’s efforts to one-up Snapchat continue with the addition of animated GIFs in its Stories. Instagram stories now include GIF stickers. Instagram The Facebook-owned social network announced on Tuesday that you’ll now see a GIF option when adding stickers to a photo or video in stories. Powered by GIF library Giphy, you’ll be able to browse GIFs that are trending as well …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Not a Facebook fan? Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook and its ilk have taken a beating of late. Even former executives have admitted they fear social networks are doing terrible damage to kids’ psyches. Now there’s another senior tech figure who seems to be …
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Here’s the scenario: I recorded a video but no photos from my son’s first ski race last weekend. My video footage tuned out to be less than compelling, but I wanted to share something from the big event on Instagram for his grandparents and my tens of followers. Without any photos, what was I to do? With a little trial …
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Social media companies may have been dreading the fireworks marking the start of the new year. On Jan. 1, Germany began enforcing strict rules that could fine major internet sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube up to 50 million euros ($60 million, £44 million, AU$77 million) if they don’t remove posts containing hate speech within 24 hours of receiving …
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Instagram is feeling generous as Christmas approaches, and it’s rolled out new features as its contribution to the season of giving. Users can now share live videos with their contacts by direct message, it announced in a blog post yesterday. The move comes as Instagram confirmed it will be testing a messaging app called Direct in selected markets earlier this …
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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 into Japanese pro wrestling recently, …
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One of the main characteristics of Instagram Stories is that the posts disappeared after 24 hours. That gave them an ephemeral, fleeting quality, but if you get as attached to your Stories as I do, that expiration date was a bit of a bummer. The only option was to save them on your phone. Instagram apparently felt my pain and …
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You can save the Instagram Stories into an archive and build a highlights reel from previous Stories, the app announced on its blog Tuesday. Stories, which are collections of personal photos and video, previously expired in 24 hours. With Stories Archive, the app will automatically save your Stories. You can then use the archived Stories to build Stories Highlights in …
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