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Snap Inc.’s first piece of hardware goes on sale today. But, following the company’s nontraditional style, the Spectacles glasses can only be purchased at vending machines that will pop up in new locations around the US every day. That means Snap, formerly known as Snapchat, may only be treating Spectacles as an experiment for now. …

Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat ‘World Lenses’ warp your reality 1:11 Ready to see the world through Snapchat’s eyes? Snap Inc. on Tuesday updated its iOS and Android apps to include World Lenses, a series of augmented-reality filters you can use with your back-facing camera. The new filters include a winter wonderland, butterfly garden and clouds that puke rainbows, helping …

Remember when Facebook tried and failed to buy Snapchat? Well it seems the company has not given up its pursuit of similar messaging tech. The social network made an unsuccessful bid this summer to acquire Snow, a Snapchat-esque app owned by South Korea-based Naver, TechCrunch reported Monday. The bid was rebuffed in spite of a phone call directly from Facebook …

Facebook has a great costume idea for Halloween, as it makes moves to catch up with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. In 2013, the social media giant failed to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. On Monday, a report said the company earlier this year tried to buy Snow, a similar social network in Asia, but couldn’t manage to snatch it up …

Facebook may be getting Snapchattier. The social network on Thursday began testing new camera and messaging features that look and feel similar to staples of Snapchat, the social network’s trendy rival, beloved by teens and young adults. The new features include digital masks, which uses software to superimpose an image onto your face, similar to Snapchat lenses. There are other …

If you follow DJ Khaled on Snapchat, you’ve enjoyed many jewels of knowledge — or keys to success. You may have also seen the DJ’s fiancée give birth to their first child. Khaled last night documented the entire birth of the couple’s son on Snapchat. His fiancée Nicole Tuck was seen in labour as music from his 2016 album “Major …

Halley’s Comet is still a few decades away from returning, but it’s left a gift in the meantime. Meanwhile, back on Earth, don’t expect much greatness to come out of Twitter on Friday morning because the social network is experiencing an outage. Social Cues is your go-to guide on what’s buzzing across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what is trending on …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 Did Snapchat just make camera glasses cool? The popular messaging app will be selling glasses that record point-of-view video clips to share on Snapchat. It’s a simple way to take hands-free video (uh oh, GoPro) without any of the annoying screen-above-your-eye complications of Google Glass. Meanwhile, Apple …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 Let’s get this out of the way: Over the weekend, Snapchat unveiled a pair of video camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles, and the whole effort could crash and burn miserably. But if Snapchat has earned anything, it’s the benefit of the doubt. The $129 shades, which are coming …

Four years ago, Facebook and Twitter shared the same small space on Radio Row at the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both social networks were growing, but not quite mainstream. Not anymore. Social networks — including Snapchat, Instagram, Medium, and YouTube — this week were an inescapable presence that rivaled traditional media at the RNC in Cleveland. Radio Row is …