Month: November 2022
WhatsApp’s new Communities feature aims to bring related group chats together
WhatsApp is rolling out some new features, including one that’s designed to bring related group chats together. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Communities feature earlier this year, and the aim is to allow users to combine group chats “under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.” Similar…
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WhatsApp gets better for big groups with new Communities and 32-person video chats
Meta is rolling out a few changes to WhatsApp that will make the app better to use for large circles of people, including the wide rollout of Communities. Communities are designed to house multiple related groups within bigger organizations of people, such as a neighborhood or a workplace. Think something…
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Google Assistant just got more kid-friendly and a little safer, too
Audio player loading… Google is updating its Assistant platform to be more kid-friendly with a suite of new parental controls, voices, and more. Prior to this, Google Assistant never really had any parental controls, but as the company claims in the announcement (opens in new tab), children commonly interact with…
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Congrats, Horny People, Nudity Is Back On Tumblr
However, creators like Kate who use social media to drive an audience to their paid content on OnlyFans or other sites aren’t sure they’ll make the move away from Twitter. “I started focusing more on Twitter a little before the porn ban happened, just because there were more people on…
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Elon Musk could cut half of Twitter’s workforce
Twitter employees have been bracing for layoffs since Elon Musk officially took over the company, and details are starting to trickle out about how many people could be affected. Wednesday evening, The Verge’s Alex Heath reports that Musk is meeting with advisors, including fellow former PayPal exec David Sacks, and…
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Meta is testing a way to mint and sell NFTs on Instagram
Meta has announced that it’s testing minting and selling NFTs on Instagram, like you can with many traditional NFT marketplaces, with a “small group of creators in the US” getting access to the feature first. The company’s also expanding Instagram’s NFT showcase feature, which it recently made available to users…
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