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Netflix may soon drop support for older Apple TV models, according to claims on Reddit. Users on the social media forum reported receiving emails from the streaming platform about “sunsetting support” for several older-generation models.

Instagram is testing a new feature called Ad Breaks that brings short but unskippable ads, according to recent claims on Reddit. The Meta-owned photo-sharing platform did not officially reveal the testing of the Ad Breaks feature but users across Reddit forums have reported its arrival.

A man in the United States who tracked his ex-girlfriend's location on a social media app and then killed her when she got home has been sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Instagram is rolling out several new features for users globally. The Meta-owned social media platform announced three new features for Notes to make it easier to post new posts and connect with friends. It has also introduced a Limit Interactions feature that allows users to not receive messages, comments, and tags from followers who are not added...

Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (now called X), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform he also helped co-founded.

Snapchat is introducing new features that will allow its users to interact with the platform in newer ways and improve existing experiences. There are a couple of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features as well, and all of these are gradually being rolled out. Some of these features will only be available to the Snapchat+ paid subscribers.

For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale ...

The U.S. Senate set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok's free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution when it approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells it.

Taking on Google-owned YouTube, X social media platform will soon launch a dedicated TV app for users to upload high-quality videos, its CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced.

TikTok on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the US if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.

Human Mobile Devices (HMD) has unveiled The Boring Phone in collaboration with Heineken and Bodega. The newly launched handset has a flip screen and it is a limited edition run. The Boring Phone has a translucent design and the phone is unable to access the internet and download social media or other third-party apps. It is claimed to deliver a wee...

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly known as Twitter) could soon start charging new users an annual fee to give them access to write posts, like, reply, or bookmark posts. The billionaire entrepreneur confirmed the development to bring this policy to the social media platform on April 15, highlighting that the move was aimed at reducing spam on the platfor...

Venture capitalist Naval Ravikant has rolled out a social media app centered around communicating through voice notes, looking to challenge the dominance of text-based platforms such as Elon Musk-owned X and Meta Platforms' Threads.

Meta is finally bringing the ability to share high-quality photos to Messenger, a feature that many of its users have longed for. Additionally, the social media giant is allowing users to create shared albums in chats. It is also rolling out the ability to send larger files up to 100MB in size.

X (formerly known as Twitter) expanded its passkey support to iOS users globally on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-owned platform introduced passkeys as an alternative to traditional passwords in January. But at the time, it was only available on its iOS app for users in the US. Now, three months after its launch, the social media platform has extended it ...

Netflix may soon drop support for older Apple TV models, according to claims on Reddit. Users on the social media forum reported receiving emails from the streaming platform about “sunsetting support” for several older-generation models.

Instagram is testing a new feature called Ad Breaks that brings short but unskippable ads, according to recent claims on Reddit. The Meta-owned photo-sharing platform did not officially reveal the testing of the Ad Breaks feature but users across Reddit forums have reported its arrival.

A man in the United States who tracked his ex-girlfriend's location on a social media app and then killed her when she got home has been sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Instagram is rolling out several new features for users globally. The Meta-owned social media platform announced three new features for Notes to make it easier to post new posts and connect with friends. It has also introduced a Limit Interactions feature that allows users to not receive messages, comments, and tags from followers who are not added...

Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (now called X), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform he also helped co-founded.

Snapchat is introducing new features that will allow its users to interact with the platform in newer ways and improve existing experiences. There are a couple of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features as well, and all of these are gradually being rolled out. Some of these features will only be available to the Snapchat+ paid subscribers.

For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale ...

The U.S. Senate set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok's free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution when it approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells it.

Taking on Google-owned YouTube, X social media platform will soon launch a dedicated TV app for users to upload high-quality videos, its CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced.

TikTok on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the US if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.

Human Mobile Devices (HMD) has unveiled The Boring Phone in collaboration with Heineken and Bodega. The newly launched handset has a flip screen and it is a limited edition run. The Boring Phone has a translucent design and the phone is unable to access the internet and download social media or other third-party apps. It is claimed to deliver a wee...

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly known as Twitter) could soon start charging new users an annual fee to give them access to write posts, like, reply, or bookmark posts. The billionaire entrepreneur confirmed the development to bring this policy to the social media platform on April 15, highlighting that the move was aimed at reducing spam on the platfor...

Venture capitalist Naval Ravikant has rolled out a social media app centered around communicating through voice notes, looking to challenge the dominance of text-based platforms such as Elon Musk-owned X and Meta Platforms' Threads.

Meta is finally bringing the ability to share high-quality photos to Messenger, a feature that many of its users have longed for. Additionally, the social media giant is allowing users to create shared albums in chats. It is also rolling out the ability to send larger files up to 100MB in size.

X (formerly known as Twitter) expanded its passkey support to iOS users globally on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-owned platform introduced passkeys as an alternative to traditional passwords in January. But at the time, it was only available on its iOS app for users in the US. Now, three months after its launch, the social media platform has extended it ...