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- Hazel Donovan
- Oct, 24 2022
Google Deletes Sixteen Apps From Its Play Store The tech giant has reportedly deleted sixteen applications from its online marketplace for increasing battery drain and data devouring, as well as for being involved in extensive user-impersonation ad scam. With that said, if you’re an Android user, you need to double-check your phone for more than a dozen potentially hazardous apps that are now banned from the Google Play Store. Curious about the details? Keep reading to find out.
The aforementioned banned software allegedly involved in ad scams and making smartphones vulnerable to extremely fast battery draining boasted a total of 20 M installations. One of the apps alone was... -
- Aria Leighton
- Oct, 22 2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Preload Details Unveiled CoD MW2 is almost here. The game is doubtlessly among the biggest releases of the year, if not one of the most impactful titles of all time. Did you know you can play the game over a week ahead of the full release? And you can preload the campaign early, too. In this piece, we’ll let you in on further details, so keep reading.
Everyone loves the Modern Warfare series, so no wonder that the most passionate game enthusiasts can’t wait to start playing the new iteration. CoD MW2 is scheduled to jump into full cross-all-platform rollout on October 28th. However,... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Oct, 17 2022
Instagram Will Soon Let Users Place More Links in Their Bios If you use your Instagram profile for business or promotion, now you’ll be able to do it more efficiently. Instagram is already testing the new option that many active business users, celebrities, or professionals will appreciate. With it, you’ll be able to place more than one link in your bio, which will allow you to add more external resources you promote.
Select creators are already given this opportunity. With it, as we see, one can add up to three (or maybe even more) links to the bio section. They are hidden behind the first link, while the number to the right... -
- Hazel Donovan
- Oct, 16 2022
New Legends of Zelda Game Promo Hints at Tears of the Kingdom Details The Legend of Zelda franchise is one of the staples for Nintendo throughout its history. The next installment in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, is already announced, and more and more materials make it to the audience. The recent promo tells little about the gameplay, but fans are already up here with their versions of what’s coming.
The information about the upcoming game is, to say the least, scarce. Nintendo shared two photos of a statue of Link, a protagonist featured throughout the series, and, though it’s very detailed and shows some unexpected changes (like Link’s... -
- Aria Leighton
- Sep, 28 2022
Twitter Will Partner with Researches that Specialize in Revealing Misinformation Twitter continues its attempts to find ways to reveal manipulation and misinformation on its social media platform. It’s not a secret that the platform has been used by many in an attempt to influence public opinion, which is particularly obvious with different wars and conflicts taking place in the world. This time, Twitter will expand its collaboration with academic research teams to help identify such manipulation attempts.
Twitter provides an opportunity to submit applications to those who want to join its Twitter Moderation Research Consortium. The goal is to have a group of researchers who will be able to view tweet... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Sep, 26 2022
Meta Introduces New Facebook Reels API as It Continues to Lean into This Video Format It is obvious that Meta is all about Reels nowadays, as the company actively promotes this video format on Instagram. This time, Meta wants to help creators make the most of Reels on Facebook. The company decided to launch Facebook Reels API, which will make it possible to post Reels by using third-party apps for creating videos. In June of this year, Meta introduced Instagram Reels API, so this is the next step in the process.
According to Meta, the company understands that numerous creators use third-party apps to make their Facebook Reels. For this reason, Meta wants to make it... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Sep, 19 2022
Instagram Will Improve Its Recommendation Algorithm for Reels with ‘Add Topic’ Feature Seeking to improve its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Instagram is reportedly experimenting with a feature called ‘Add Topics.’ Following in the footsteps of TikTok, which is really very good at recognizing and meeting user interests, Instagram plans to introduce new functionality to allow creators to add topics to the clips they upload and make it easier for users to discover new entertaining video content that they would like to watch. If implemented, such innovation might give Instagram users another opportunity to show off their content to a more invested and engaged audience, which, in turn, should improve how well Reels... -
- Hazel Donovan
- Sep, 18 2022
Roblox Is Aiming for Metaverse: Here Is How It Is Planning to Succeed While the metaverse is all everyone can talk about now, there is still a long journey ahead before we can completely immerse ourselves and interact in the fully-utilitarian digital world.
Through the efforts of major social media companies and gaming platforms like Roblox, however, we have a pretty good understanding of what the metaverse should be like. It is a safe and comfortable 3D world inhabited by our digital avatars who go on about their daily business doing things we usually do or wish we would do in real life.
Although Roblox’s vision of a digital universe where people can create and... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Sep, 05 2022
Google Creates Software That Allows Developers to Create Cross-Device Android Apps Google is launching a new software development kit, which is intended to help Android apps developers to offer connectivity across different devices. The tools included in the software kit will allow developers to make apps play smoothly on both Android and non-Android devices.
Referred to as SDK, this software will provide several features to developers. Firstly, they will be able to make apps that will find nearby devices. Secondly, the kit enables developers to use tools that create a single app experience on several devices. Lastly, SDK will make it possible to make such connections secure. Google mentioned that the software... -
- Rafael Carmichael
- Sep, 04 2022
More People Watch YouTube Content at Faster than Normal Speeds If you are an active user of YouTube, you probably change the speeds at which videos are played on the platform at least once in a while. According to YouTube statistics, users of the platform save years of video time every day by simply choosing the speed-up feature.
At the moment, YouTube has several different speeds to choose from, depending on your needs. By default, all videos are played at normal speed, but if you want to slow them down, you can choose one of three variants — 0.25x, 0.5x, and 0.75x. When it comes to speeding up the video, there... -
- Ronan Blackwood
- Aug, 19 2022
Walkthroughs And Guides For The New Golden Apple Archipelago Event In Genshin Impact The new Summertime Odyssey event marks the return of the Golden Apple Archipelago for Genshin Impact. All this appeared as part of patch 2.8 and will not be available after its end. The new area is replete with various features, including free loot, puzzles, and quests. Therefore, given the time frame, players should hurry up to get as many in-game prizes as possible while possible.
Genshin Impact is true to tradition, so the events are made consecutive, with different branches of opportunities and prizes throughout the duration of the action. Thus, the player is maximally involved in the process and we... -
- Freya Beaumont
- Aug, 17 2022
Snapchat Reveals Unique Audience Reach Stats To Help Promote Brands Recently, Snapchat released new statistics that clearly show the unique reach of a young category of users, which once again proves that this platform is a highly sought-after communication application. Also, Snap collaborated with GWI on a study that tracked how often Snapchat users use other apps and which ones are most used as a social activity tool.
Thanks to this study, it became known that 51% of study participants aged 16 and over do not use TikTok on a daily basis, despite its rapidly growing popularity. The same can be said for the 67% of Snapchat users who don't use...