The average smartphone user will take 69 images and videos over the festive period – and share more than a third of them on social media, research has found. A poll of 2,000 adults, who own a smartphone and post on social media, found a night out with friends, a winter walk, and Christmas markets, …
Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR If you wanted to read Instagram messages without letting anyone know, you previously had to use a workaround. Meta’s CEO has confirmed that users now have the ability to turn off read receipts. When you send a direct message on the popular iOS and Android app Instagram, a read …
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are increasingly becoming targets of cyber attacks. This is likely due to a number of factors, including: PWDs may be more likely to use assistive technologies, which can be more vulnerable to attack. PWDs may be less likely to be aware of cyber security threats or to take steps to protect …
X has been trying to find buyers for user handles it reclaimed from inactive accounts, even going so far as to send out solicitation emails asking for “a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase,” according to Forbes. Elon Musk announced back in May that X, formerly Twitter, would start purging accounts that have …
Threads was missing a lot of features users would expect from a service similar to Twitter’s (now X’s) when it launched. Over the past few months, however, it has been been rolling out more and more new features to give users a more robust experience, including polls, an easy way to post GIFs and the …
Meta’s Threads app, the social media platform that rivals X (formerly Twitter), may get a trending topics section. The potential new feature has come to light after an app developer reposted screenshots of the feature in use that were originally shared by a Meta employee. The developer that reposted the screenshots, William Max, said that, …
TikTok might be exploring new ways to make the app more profitable by playing around with an ad-free subscription model. This isn’t new for social media platforms. We’ve seen Snapchat introduce and X (formally known as Twitter) introduce its as well, but this would be a new subscription offering for TikTok. Hints of TikTok’s subscription …
Climate change isn’t going away, and it isn’t going to get any better — at least if we keep legislating as we have been. In Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, a multidisciplinary collection of subject matter experts discuss the increasingly intertwined fates of American ecology and democracy, arguing that only …
The Delhi High Court has issued an ad-interim injunction against unauthorised dissemination of course materials from the online education platform “Apna College.” The court has issued specific orders to WhatsApp, YouTube and Telegram in the cases. Apna College filed a suit alleging copyright infringement against 17 entities responsible for sharing its course materials, including printed …
On Friday, the US Supreme Court agreed to take on two landmark social media cases with enormous implications for online speech, as reported by The Washington Post. The conservative-dominated court will determine if laws passed by Texas and Florida are violating First Amendment rights by requiring social platforms to host content they would otherwise block. …