After seeing success with its Lionel Messi-focused Major League Soccer (MLS) live-stream last year, TikTok’s doing it all over again, this time with four matches that’ll be broadcast live in the app throughout the MLS season. As explained by TikTok: “Kicking off Saturday, August 2 at 7:10p ET, ‘Player Spotlight: Messi’ returns for four select matches this…
Snapchat’s added a new safety feature, with “Home Safe” alerts, which will let your friends in the app know that you’ve arrived home safely whenever activated. As you can see in this example, Snap users will be able to activate “Home Safe” within their location settings, so you can switch it on whenever you feel…
Over the years, there have been various stories about Elon Musk’s higher-than-normal risk tolerance, and his willingness to take major chances on things, despite the potential impacts that may come, to himself and to his companies. We’ve seen that with X s well, with Musk randomly ripping out servers and cutting staff, despite not knowing,…
Okay, I don’t know for sure what this means, or how it would work in practice, as Elon sees it. But after many teases, Elon Musk has today again claimed that X is going to bring back Vine, though this time “in AI form.” Does that mean that we’ll get a separate Vine app once…
So this may mean nothing, because it isn’t coming from Trump himself, but it could be reflective of broader U.S. government policy, and the approach the White House is now looking to take on the TikTok U.S. sell-off negotiations. According to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the U.S. government is indeed planning to implement a…
X is the latest platform to add age assurance checks, after coming under pressure from Irish regulators over new requirements under Ireland’s Online Safety Code. Ireland’s new online safety measures, which came into effect this week, stipulate that all video-sharing platforms must implement age-checking measures, to ensure the protection of younger users. That means that…
Meta’s expanding its protections for teen accounts once again, with some new features on Instagram that aim to raise awareness of its various blocking and reporting tools, and make it easier for youngsters to avoid potential harm. First off, Meta’s adding a new “Safety Tips” prompt within chats, which will provide a quick link to…
Meta’s provided a glimpse into the future of digital interaction, via wrist-detected control, which is likely to form a key part of its coming AR and VR expansions. Meta’s been working on a wrist controller, which relies on differential electromyography (EMG) to detect muscle movement, then translate that into digital signals, for some time, and…
Despite initially resisting calls to add DMs to Threads, Meta recently conceded to user pressure on this front, and it’s now looking to quickly build out its messaging functionality within its Twitter clone app, by adding a range of new DM options that’ll bring Threads messaging more into line with other DM offerings. First off,…
With speculation floating around in Instagram circles as to the elements that can impact reach, IG chief Adam Mosseri has taken the time to address one specific rumor doing the rounds, in relation to the use of “link in bio” in your IG captions and content. Various IG creators have speculated that the Instagram algorithm…
