Instagram has updated its photo-sharing app with two new features that allow users to broadcast live video and send disappearing media in a private message. The new video broadcaster looks similar to Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope. You’ll see a small “live” button next to friends who are currently streaming video, and you can comment …
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You can’t buy Snapchat’s Spectacles for $130. Even if that’s what it says on each and every receipt. The real price is anywhere between $750 and $2,000 — because that’s how much you’ll pay scalpers on eBay or Craigslist. Or the price is hours and hours of your time: time to wait, and watch, and drive, and hours to stand …
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Apple’s big 10-year anniversary iPhone could have augmented reality built right into the native iOS Camera app, according to a report by Business Insider. If true, Apple would be taking on Google in the AR department; that company released its first phone with a depth-sensing camera, the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, this past June. Apple could follow in Google’s Tango …
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#Spectacles isn’t trending because your parents are in need of new magnifiers. Snap’s new Spectacles, glasses that let you record and upload to Snapchat, are white hot right now. We got a pair here at CNET HQ yesterday and CNET’s Lexy Savvides has already given us her first impressions. Our full review is coming soon. What’s amazing is just how …
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Snapchat is coming to Wall Street. The social company reportedly filed for an initial public offering that values it at as much as $25 billion. The filing and that price illustrate just how significant Snapchat, and its parent company Snap Inc., have become since its founding just five years ago. Also on the show, San Francisco tightened its rules on …
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Social media is so over 2016. Twitter users, in particular, want the year to end but they won’t let it silently slip away. Instead, they’ve turned their disgust into a trending topic. On Facebook, people are chatting about pro wrestling and Snapchat. Social Cues is our guide on what’s trending across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what people are talking about …
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Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat may be worth $30 billion with IPO filing 1:30 The new move for Snap may be going public. The Venice, California, startup has “filed confidentially” for an initial public offering of its shares, according to Reuters, which cited sources familiar with the situation. The company behind the popular Snapchat app and Spectacles smart glasses has …
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Snapchat Spectacles — you know, the sunglasses that have have built-in cameras that allow you to post directly to Snapchat — are here. So far, the videos captured with them that have been shared online are pretty boring (they mostly revolve around people’s first impressions of the Snap-branded sunnies). But the new circular video format they use is excitingly promising. …
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Now playing: Watch this: First look: Snapchat Spectacles 1:24 You can now post Snaps with your face. In September, Snap Inc. (formerly called Snapchat) announced Spectacles, $130 sunglasses that can shoot first-person videos and upload them to ephemeral-messaging service Snapchat. Starting Thursday, you can buy those glasses if you’re in the right place on the right day. Here’s what we …
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Social media gave a big salute on Veterans Day, while outrage morphs into violence over the election. Also trending on social media are Nintendo releasing its throwback NES classic on Friday and people hunting for a pair of Snapchat Spectacle shades. Social Cues is our guide to what’s trending across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what social media’s buzzing about on …
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