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Attendees walk past a Facebook logo during Facebook's F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, April 30, 2019.Stephen Lam | ReutersFacebook on Wednesday announced a number of new developer tools, including several messaging features for businesses, at its virtual F8 software developer conference.The event marked Facebook's first software developer conference since 2019, as the Covid pandemic forced the company to cancel last year's event.This year, Facebook placed a focus on new features to help businesses communicate with consumers directly via its messaging services. This is a key focus for Facebook, which is seeking to enable more e-commerce transactions directly on its services and enable businesses to handle more of their customer support via Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.Here are some key announcements:Messenger API for Instagram: Facebook announced that all businesses will now have access to the application program interface, or API, for messaging on Instagram. This will make it easier for businesses to automate and manage direct message communication with users.  » Read More

At today’s F8 developer conference, Facebook announced new capabilities for Spark AR, its flagship AR creation software. Since Spark AR was announced at F8 2017, more than 600,000 creators from 190 countries have published over 2 million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram, making it the largest mobile AR platform, according to Facebook. If you’ve ever posted a selfie on your Instagram story with an effect that gave you green hair, or let you control a dog’s facial expression by moving your own face, then you’ve used Spark AR.  Soon, these AR effects will be available for video calling on Messenger, Instagram, and Portal with the introduction of a Multipeer API. Creators can develop effects that bring call participants together by using a shared AR effect. As an example, Spark AR shared a promo video of a birthday party held over a video call, in which an AR party hat appears on each of the participants’ heads.  Creators can also develop games for users to play during their video calls.  » Read More

KATIE Taylor earns an estimated €2,400 per post on the social network platform Instagram according to a new survey. he undefeated world boxing champion has 390,000 followers on the platform, putting her second in the women’s game behind double Olympic gold medallist and unbeaten professional world champion Claressa Shields. The American has 424,000 followers and earns £2,600 per post. The other high-profile female fighters lag behind the pair. Amanda Serrano (79,900), Cecilia Braekhus (71,400) and Jessica McCaskill (20,200) are in third, fourth and fifth place respectively in the table compiled by onlinegambling.com The most revealing aspect of the table is how far the female fighters trail their male counterparts in their number of followers they have on the platform which impacts on the earning capacity from this source. Even though he hasn’t fought professionally since 2017, Floyd Mayweather Jr sits at the top of the Instagram earnings chart with prospective pay outs of €112,973 per post. He has 25.5m followers on the social network. In second place is another retired boxer Mike Tyson who has 14.7m followers and earns an estimated €59,100 per post. British heavyweight rivals Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are third and eighth respectively with 12.2m and…

TikTok has been around for less than two years and yet it’s already created countless aesthetics. There’s the “that girl”, light academia, art hoe and many many more. These aesthetics aren’t necessarily new – subcultures have been around on the internet ever since we first logged onto Tumblr. But the emergence of TikTok has enabled girls to engage in subculture aesthetics like never before. A short 10 second video sums up your entire aesthetic far more than your Tumblr page ever could. And thank god you can explain it quickly because there’s so many TikTok aesthetics to get through. Everyday on the For You Page there’s a new aesthetic that TikTok users are embracing. They show off the clothes, the make up, the activities and reference points associated with that aesthetic. Though some have a level of overlap with other aesthetics they all still have their firm identities and the type of girl who embodies that particular aesthetic. This is your guide to every single TikTok aesthetic that’s people are doing this summer: Y2K Ok so this is the most mainstream aesthetic you’re going to see on TikTok this summer. The Y2K girl is the cool girl that gives off…

Over time, Clubhouse has turned into a popular audio social network app used by millions across the globe. Initially available only for iOS, the app is now available even for Android users. It’s quite polished and works well for the most part. However, lately, many users have complained that their Clubhouse app says “Poor connection. Try to find a stronger signal” with no audio. For some, the app works only when connected to Wifi. If you’re facing any such issues, do not worry. Here are some quick ways to fix the poor connection error in the Clubhouse app on Android and iPhone. Related | 11 Clubhouse App Tips & Tricks to Get the Most Out of it! Fix Poor Connection Issue in Clubhouse App Every @joinClubhouse room I join is showing me this error and I'm getting no audio. Is this just happening to me? "Poor connection. Try to find a stronger signal." My last speedtest had 217/119 Mbps up/down. /cc @pdavison pic.twitter.com/MCX9e7fu7u — ⌗ChrisMessina (@chrismessina) February 24,  » Read More

by: Dylan Abad Posted: Jun 2, 2021 / 06:28 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 2, 2021 / 06:28 AM EDT Twitter’s verification process is back in service. Users can, once again, apply for a coveted blue check mark. The process was paused last Friday, because Twitter said too many applications were submitted. It’s unclear how long it will take for responses to be issued. Apple TV is now available on Nvidia streaming services. That means the app can officially be accessed on all modern Android TV devices. It comes with complete support for all 4K and HDR content. Previously, Apple TV was limited to Chromecast with Google TV and Sony Bravia televisions. A major redesign for Firefox. The browser now has bigger tabs. The tab in focus can float above the toolbar and they’re detachable – making them easy to move around and rearrange. The Firefox update also comes with more streamlined menus and more privacy.

Aarthi RamamurthyClubhouse, the invite-only social audio app, has roped in former Facebook executive Aarthi Ramamurthy as head of international."I’m thrilled to be joining @clubhouse as Head of International and focus on building global communities on Clubhouse," Ramamurthy tweeted."Coming from India, I’m excited to bring a different perspective, and work with the small + mighty, exceptional team that @pdavison and @rohanseth have hired at Clubhouse. Let’s gooooo!," Ramamurthy wrote. Update - I’m thrilled to be joining @clubhouse as Head of International and focus on building global communities on Clubhouse — Aarthi Ramamurthy (@aarthir) June 1, 2021 Prior to this role, Ramamurthy was leading the product efforts at Facebook's communities product group, responsible for helping people build healthy, sustainable communities on the platform.Earlier this week, Clubhouse said it now has more than 2 million users on Android within a month of its launch and they are also working on bringing feature parity between its Android and iOS apps.  » Read More

Parents and tech companies are both struggling with how to handle underage kids using social media apps. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP Parents and tech companies are both struggling with how to handle underage kids using social media apps. Rick Bowmer/AP Social media companies prohibit kids under 13 from signing up because of federal privacy law. But parents like Danielle Hawkins can tell you a different story. "She got on Instagram and Snapchat without my approval when she was about 12," Hawkins, a mom of four who lives near Detroit, said of her eldest daughter. The tech companies are well aware of this problem. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a congressional hearing in March that his company knows kids get around the age limits on apps like Instagram, the photo-sharing network Facebook owns. "There clearly a large number of people under the age of 13 who would want to use a service like Instagram," he said. Now, Facebook is working on a solution for underage kids: "We're exploring having a service for Instagram that allows under 13s on, because we worry that kids may find ways to try to lie and evade some of our systems,"…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Cybercrimes Bill into law, bringing South Africa’s cybersecurity laws in line with the rest of the world. The bill, which is now an act of parliament, creates offences for and criminalises, amongst others, the disclosure of data messages which are harmful, says Ahmore Burger-Smidt, director and head of Data Privacy Practice at Werksmans Attorneys. Examples of such data messages include: Those which incite violence or damage to property; Those which threaten persons with violence or damage to property; Those which contain an intimate image sent without the subject’s consent. Other offences include cyber fraud, forgery, extortion and theft of incorporeal property, said Burger-Smidt. “The unlawful and intentional access of a computer system or computer data storage medium is also considered an offence along with the unlawful interception of, or interference with data.” “This creates a broad ambit for the application of the Cybercrimes Act which defines ‘data’ as electronic representations of information in any form.” A person who is convicted of an offence under the Cybercrimes Act is liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period of up to fifteen years or to both a fine and such imprisonment as may be…

Skip to content Surely more than once you have encountered this WhatsApp problem: there is not enough storage space available. Something that prevents you from downloading the latest version or update of WhatsApp. What leaves you at a disadvantage: you can’t use WhatsApp because it forces you to install the latest version, but you can’t download the update either. Well, here we have a tutorial so you can free up the necessary storage space and carry out all these steps. And without losing anything. I can’t update WhatsApp due to lack of space The error that says that there is not enough storage space available will leave you unable to download WhatsApp or update the application due to lack of this space. The updates download files to your mobile to add new functions or fixes for old problems. And this space must be free to allow this action to be carried out. However, on your mobile there are several types of memory and spaces, and sometimes you will not need to delete photos and videos to update WhatsApp. Just delete the cache from Google Play Store. Follow these steps Enter the Settings of your mobile and look for the Applications…