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Facebook experienced an almost day-long outage on Wednesday. Facebook’s outage affected a near 2 billion people, with their problems starting around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday morning. The outage affected users mainly in the US and Europe, but also affected users in South America, Australia and Asia.  The outage was also felt in apps and companies …

Snapchat plans to launch its gaming platform next month, according to a report Friday from Cheddar.  Snap, which makes the ephemeral photo-sharing app, will announce the platform at an event for developers and content partners in Los Angeles on April 4, an unnamed sourced told Cheddar. The invite for the event, which was seen by Cheddar, includes the tagline: “Less …

Samsung opened its camera software development kit (SDK) to give apps full access to the tech used by its new Galaxy S10 phone’s camera. Photos taken within other apps will retain the same quality level as those taken with the camera proper, and you’ll be able to access all the camera’s features — like low-light shots and HDR. It showed off …

If you’re on Twitter, you may soon encounter a familiar Snapchat feature. The social media site has been developing a “News Camera,” according to code uncovered and tweeted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. The new camera feature apparently will be accessible by swiping left from the home screen and let you add Snapchat-style captions to photos, videos and live …

Snap, which has struggled to keep users on its Snapchat app, broke its losing streak. Snap said Tuesday that 186 million users logged in to the vanishing-messaging app daily in the fourth quarter, the same number as in the previous quarter. Snap had seen a drop in daily usage for two consecutive quarters last year after an unpopular redesign of the …

Snap is looking at letting photos stick around longer on its Snapchat app, according to a report Monday. The social media company is thinking about making public posts live longer or even permanently, as well as revealing the identities of those making the posts, according to Reuters, which cited an anonymous source. Snap is also carefully considering the privacy, technical and …

Facebook isn’t the same social network it used to be. A decade ago, status updates had to include the word “is.” Catching up with friends meant writing on their Facebook digital walls.  Today’s social media couldn’t be more different. Users are sharing moments of their lives in vertical videos and photos that vanish in 24 hours through a feature called “Stories.” …

Riley tests out one of Snapchat’s new lenses made specially for dogs.  Lindsay Taggart/Snapchat Think of it as our belated Christmas present to you… the latest in Snapchat filter news for your pets. This week the popular social network introduced lenses specifically for your pooch. Dog Lenses come on the heels of October’s release of Cat Lenses. They launched just …

Snapchat just came up with a new way to engage users. The popular social app on Wednesday rolled out a new feature, Lens Challenges, that lets users participate in challenges with others by filming a snap with a particular lens. Users can create and share snaps with lenses that are based on a particular song, dance, holiday, event and more. …

Facebook hasn’t been very fun for the last few years. From political fighting to fake news to privacy concerns, many users are logging on less and others are deleting their accounts altogether. For those who primarily use Facebook today but are looking for alternatives, we’ve put together a list of the best options—from the most popular challengers to a few …