Photos… from… spaaaaaaaace. I’m going to assume you’ve checked out satellite photos of your house. Why wouldn’t you, right? Depending where you live, the image resolution might be high enough for you to make out the car in your driveway. DigitalGlobe is one of the main purveyors of satellite photos, pictures taken with telescopes in …
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If I learned anything walking the show floor at CES 2017 earlier this month, it’s that drones are anything but dead. The section that usually has drones in the South Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center was easily 10-times as large as it was the previous year, with several more vendors showing off new models of all sizes. As …
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The most popular — and valued athletes — on social media? Names like basketball god LeBron James, golf star Rory McIlroy or brash UFC pottymouth brawler Colin McGregor might come to mind. Sure, they’re on the list, but they aren’t No. 1. That distinction goes to (drumroll, please)… Russell Wilson. Yep, the almost always upbeat-sounding Seattle Seahawks quarterback has been …
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Get ready: Ads are on their way into the middle of your Instagram Stories. Users should expect to begin seeing the ads, which will be limited to 15 seconds each, within the coming weeks, Instagram tells us. The Facebook-owned social sharing platform will start tests with a limited number of global brands, including Nike, Netflix and Maybelline New York. The …
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Sometimes, a simple “happy holidays” isn’t enough. To help you spread some yuletide cheer, Instagram on Tuesday released a set of holiday stickers you can add to photos and videos in your “story,” the Snapchat-like Instagram feature that disappears after 24 hours. Instagram also said it will add another set of stickers to help ring in the New Year. A …
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Yep, you still will be able to make and watch six-second Vine videos. Over and over and over. Vine, Twitter’s video app, was left for dead two months ago. But on Friday, the social network said in a blog post that the app will be renamed “Vine Camera.” Users will be able to post the looping videos they make to …
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Here’s a story for you: Instagram now has more than 600 million users, 100 million of whom joined up in just the past six months. Enlarge Image Instagram’s “Stories” feature has yielded huge growth for the platform. Sharon Profis/CNET The rapid growth comes after a year that saw the debut of the Snapchat-like “Instagram Stories” feature that allows users to …
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Have you ever found a hilarious photo on someone’s Instagram feed, only to lose track of it when you want to show it to your friend hours later? That could soon be a thing of the past. A brand-new Instagram feature announced Wednesday will now let you bookmark your favorite photos and videos and add them to a folder of …
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Instagram‘s live video feature is rolling out just in time to capture your family holiday extravaganza. The company, which is owned by social networking giant Facebook, is releasing the feature to all US users starting Monday. Live videos, announced last month, is similar to Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope in that it lets you broadcast live videos to your followers. …
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One of the biggest breakout hit channels on YouTube — and one of my favorites — is all about food. Episodes from “You Suck at Cooking” regularly get over a million views and for good reason: It isn’t your garden variety cooking channel. Instead, along with directions for making various dishes, you get original music, hilarious skits and clever commentary …
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