Snap adds new features to its $4/month Snapchat+ subscription app, including “Story Expiration” controls, custom notification sounds, and camera color borders (Steve Dent/Engadget)

October 20, 2022

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Snap adds new features to its $4/month Snapchat+ subscription app, including “Story Expiration” controls, custom notification sounds, and camera color borders — It’s also launching custom notifications sounds, camera borders and more on Snapchat+

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Snap makes Snapchat for Web available to all users globally, including support for video calls, releases iOS 16 lock screen widgets, and more (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

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Snap makes Snapchat for Web available to all users globally, including support for video calls, releases iOS 16 lock screen widgets, and more — Snapchat’s messaging and video chat features first made their way to browsers back in July, but only in select markets and for Snapchat+ subscribers.

September 15, 2022

Snap partners with Amazon to let users try on eyewear in AR through dozens of new Shopping Lenses (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Snap partners with Amazon to let users try on eyewear in AR through dozens of new Shopping Lenses — Snap has landed a notable new partner for its augmented reality-powered Virtual Try-On shopping experience with today’s news that Amazon will now offer Snapchat users the ability to digitally try …

November 2, 2022

A look at Snap’s decision to close Zenly, popular in Europe and Asia with a claimed ~35M MAUs earlier in 2022, to “focus on Snap Map”, which has 300M+ MAUs (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch:
A look at Snap’s decision to close Zenly, popular in Europe and Asia with a claimed ~35M MAUs earlier in 2022, to “focus on Snap Map”, which has 300M+ MAUs — Snapchat’s parent Snap became the latest tech company to announce a huge round of layoffs, confirming ongoing rumors yesterday …

September 2, 2022

Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed to let users increase or decrease posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta’s AI-based ranking (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed to let users increase or decrease posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta’s AI-based ranking — With profits shrinking of late, Facebook has been shutting down unpopular apps and focusing on its core services.

October 5, 2022

YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting — Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.

December 14, 2022

Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it’s all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that’s decidedly not family-friendly.

November 2, 2022

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