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Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that’s made Snapchat popular: ephemeral messaging. The unreleased feature was first spotted by reverse engineering specialist Jane Manchun Wong, who found code in Instagram’s Android app labeled with a “speak no evil” emoji. Wong demonstrated in a tweet Thursday that the feature works when Instagram users enter a …

Snapchat’s disappearing photos and videos were such a hit that Facebook jacked the feature for its Instagram and Facebook platforms. Now LinkedIn looks to be next in line to jump on the bandwagon. The social network for professionals announced it’s currently testing Snapchat-like stories internally and will plan to expand out to members in the “coming months.” “Last year, we …

Professional-networking site LinkedIn has started internally testing a Stories feature, letting users post to their profile a photo or text that’ll disappear after a set amount of time, according to a recent blog post from Pete Davies, the company’s senior director of product management. Social media giants Snapchat, Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram already have similar Stories features.  The Stories approach …

Snap has purchased AI Factory, an image and video recognition startup, according to Variety on Friday. Snapchat reportedly used AI Factory’s technology to launch its new Cameos feature, which allows users to insert selfies into a scene to send as a looping video and raises concerns about the possibility of creating deepfakes. Deepfakes, video forgeries that make people appear to …

Facebook is exploring building its own operating system as it pushes forward with the creation of augmented reality glasses, a move that would make the company less reliant on operating systems run by Apple and Google. “We’re looking at all options right now, which include partnering with other companies and building a custom operating (system) designed for augmented reality,” a …

For years, Snapchat’s been an app interested in pushing the boundaries of augmented reality through its camera lenses. As more AR-powered apps and headsets push into the competition, Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, has been continuing to develop its AR through artists, brands, developers and influencers who have making even more evolved AR creations, games and possibly collaborative art, too. The …

So far this year, we’ve been introduced to popular photo filters like Snapchat’s gender-swapping filter and the FaceApp challenge that makes you look super young or gives you wrinkles you’re not ready to see. Now Snapchat has come out with Time Machine, a new filter that lets you swipe left and right to watch yourself age from a child to …

Apps with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality will reach 10 billion installations by 2024, according to Juniper Research. This is up from around 3 billion installations of mixed-reality apps for 2019, the study published Monday said.   Mixed reality overlays images and videos onto the real world by using the camera on a phone, tablet, glasses or headset. More …

Snap appears to be making a comeback, attracting new users after it announced a new version of its augmented reality sunglasses. The parent company of ephemeral-messaging app Snapchat said Tuesday that it had 210 million daily active users, an increase from the 203 million daily active users the company reported in the second quarter. Since it went public in 2017, Snap …

Snapchat is apparently having a case of the Mondays. The messaging app on Monday confirmed that some users were having trouble sending Chats and Snaps. Problems started a little before 11 a.m. ET, according to Down Detector, and appeared to impact many on the East Coast and in Europe. The company said it managed to fix things about two hours …