Category: author_name|Karissa Bell
Instagram is adding new features to prevent teen sextortion scams
Meta is continuing its flurry of teen safety features for Instagram as the company faces mounting questions about its handling of younger users’ privacy and safety in its apps. The latest batch of updates are meant to tighten its protections against sextortion. With the changes, Meta says it will make…
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Threads is adding location sharing to posts
Threads seems to be rolling out a new location tagging feature that allows users to add a location to their posts. Some users have reported seeing the change in Threads’ app, though it doesn’t seem to be available to everyone just yet. The feature is similar to location tagging on…
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Meta AI can now talk to you and edit your photos
Over the last year, Meta has made its AI assistant so ubiquitous in its apps it’s almost hard to believe that Meta AI is only a year old. But, one year after its launch at the last Connect, the company is infusing Meta AI with a load of new features…
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Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing and filling its property with ‘space garbage’
Cards Against Humanity is the latest entity to take on Elon Musk in court. The irreverent party game company filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on property it owns in Texas, which happens to sit near SpaceX facilities. According to a lawsuit filed in a federal court…
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Snap’s fifth-generation Spectacles bring your hands into into augmented reality
Snap’s latest augmented reality glasses have a completely new — but still very oversized — design, larger field of view and all-new software that supports full hand tracking abilities. But the company is only making the fifth-generation Spectacles available to approved developers willing to commit to a year-long $99/month subscription…
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Snap is redesigning Snapchat and adding new AI powers
Since first introducing its generative AI assistant, Snap has been steadily ramping up the amount of AI in its app. Now, the company is adding a new slate of AI-powered features as it begins testing a larger redesign of the app. Snap often brings new AI features to its Snapchat+…
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