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Photo Credit: ThoroughlyReviewed / CC by 2.0Snapchat stock rose 9.5% this week as a federal TikTok ban looms.Snap Inc. shares surged 9.5% on Monday following the news that US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner plans to introduce a bill this week to allow the US to ban TikTok and other Chinese-based technology companies. Other platforms like YouTube are expected to take home the lion’s share of the gains if the US government should implement a federal TikTok ban — but a rise in Snap stock shows the company performing better than anticipated. Comparatively, Pinterest, which competes with Snap for digital ads, gained 1.1%, while Meta Platforms fell 0.2%. Snap stock had taken a beating from a rise in competition in short-form video platforms and the dark clouds hanging over the digital ad market. Wall Street analysts have speculated that rivals such as YouTube or Facebook could benefit more from a potential TikTok ban — mainly as Snap had fallen 75% since the end of 2021, compared with a drop of 45% for Facebook parent Meta Platforms and 27% for Pinterest.YouTube might gain the most user market share among social media platforms if US lawmakers move ahead with a federal TikTok ban. Bloomberg

LONDON (Reuters) -Snapchat is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok, according to internal data the companies shared with Britain's media regulator Ofcom and which Reuters has seen. Social media platforms such as Meta's Instagram, ByteDance's TikTok, and Snap Inc.'s Snapchat require users to be at least 13 years old. These restrictions are intended to protect the privacy and safety of young children. Ahead of Britain's planned Online Safety Bill, aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content such as child pornography, Ofcom asked TikTok and Snapchat how many suspected under-13s they had kicked off their platforms in a year. According to the data seen by Reuters, TikTok told Ofcom that between April 2021 and April 2022, it had blocked an average of around 180,000 suspected underage accounts in Britain every month, or around 2 million in that 12-month period. In the same period, Snapchat disclosed that it had removed approximately 60 accounts per month, or just over 700 in total. A Snap spokesperson told Reuters the figures misrepresented the scale of work the company did to keep under-13s off its platform. The spokesperson declined to

Snapchat has included a ‘Color Your City’ landmark lens, a special Snap map takeover, a Holi-themed Bitmoji fashion drop, localized stickers, and a Holi AR lens. Holi is just around the corner. Popular picture-sharing service Snapchat has launched four new augmented reality (AR) filters to honor the event. They include a ‘Color Your City’ landmark lens, bespoke Snap map takeover, Holi-themed Bitmoji fashion drop, localized stickers, and a Holi AR lens. With the new ‘Color Your City’ lens, Snapchat users will be able to paint the cities using AR watercolors. Users may also search Holi filters in the app under the explore tab. Recently, the business unveiled My AI, a new chatbot that utilizes the newest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. The business states that the new My AI is designed for Snapchat. It is accessible as an experimental feature for Snapchat+ members and has already begun spreading out. In a press statement, the business added that My AI might provide birthday present ideas for your BFF, organize a hiking trip for a long weekend, suggest a dish for supper, or even compose a haiku about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed buddy. Make My AI your own by naming it and

Kofi Kingston has devoted his entire career to entertaining fans, and he saw a tremendous run with the New Day as well. Now, the former WWE Champion is on the shelf with an injury. Click here for our complete coverage of WWE SmackDown this week Bryan Alvarez noted behind his paid Twitter subscription feed that Kofi Kingston is injured. He did not provide any further updates at this time. Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are coming off a short run as NXT Tag Team Champions. During their time on the NXT brand, they were able to work with some stellar up-and-coming tag teams. He was just getting positioned back into things on the road to WrestleMania, but this might hold up plans. Kofi Kingston was involved in a segment on SmackDown this week with Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, Karrion Kross, and LA Knight. That will all lead to a 5-way match to determine GUNTHER’s #1 contender for the IC Title. We don’t have any more details on the severity of Kofi Kingston’s injury, but if it’s serious, then he would likely have to be replaced in the match on SmackDown next Friday. Kofi Kingston was getting ready for WrestleMania, this injury

John Cena is a former professional wrestler turned actor who has successfully made the transition from the ring to the big screen. He has starred in a number of popular films, including Trainwreck, Bumblebee, and F9: The Fast Saga, and has been praised for his versatility and range as an actor. Despite making a return to the ring late last year as well as this year, Cena still has a couple of interesting projects lined up. As revealed by Seth Rogen via Deadline, the former WWE Champion is now set to voice the role of Rocksteady in the upcoming “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” movie. The movie will feature Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon who will voice the four ninja turtles Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael respectively. The voice cast also features Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog, Rose Byrne as Leatherhead, Jackie Chan as Splinter, Ice Cube as Superfly, Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut, Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman, Post Malone as Ray Fillet, Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko and Maya Rudolph. The movie will be produced by Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Pictures, and Point Grey Productions. A teaser for the film

03 Mar 2023 4:19 PM +00:00 UTC Want to ask your friends for their opinion? Let's find out how to do a poll on Snapchat. Using an app to chat and interact with our friends, along with sharing pictures and stories, is always a lot of fun. But sometimes you need a little bit more interaction, perhaps we want our friends to weigh in on a difficult topic or we need their opinion on a burning question. So, how to do a poll on Snapchat? Let's find out.This is a feature that's being built in on many different social media apps, from Twitter to TikTok, as users want other users to voice their opinions and it is a fun way to invite people to interact as well.But how to do a poll on Snapchat? Follow this guide and you will find out. How to do a poll on SnapchatSnapchat has a handy built-in poll feature that is also quite simple to use. Here's how to post a poll to your Snapchat story:Open the app;Take a picture with your camera, this will be the background of your poll;Tap the sticker button;Choose the poll button at the top of the drawer;The "Ask

Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where I’m standing in for Darrell while he’s honeymooning with his lady love. This week, I sat down with Amanda Silberling and Mary Ann Azevedo to talk through some of their interesting stories. You can listen below or subscribe in iTunes or Spotify to get new episodes delivered weekly on Fridays! News articles from the episode:  Hack the planet: Lorenzo writes a great story about how gamers are fixing a video game “taken over” by hackers Hello, robot: Aisha reports that Snapchat launched an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology Broken dishes: Carly reports how Dish was hit by a multiday outage after a reported cyberattack … and the longer interviews:  Musk the Uninclusive: Amanda takes a look at Senator Markey’s letter that calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team From stocks to building blocks: Natasha Mascarenhas and Mary Ann Azevedo explore Amazon’s new employee perk that lets employees use their stock to finance home purchases One more thing…  Love podcasts? Don’t miss our mini feature series Inside Startup Battlefield, where we go behind the scenes to learn more about what it’s like to participate in the most famous startup pitch competition

Snapchat presents a chatbot based on the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to the CEO of Snap, Evan Spiegel, it is a bet so that the chatbot based in artificial intelligence form every part of the daily life of more people. With the name of My AI (in Spanish, My Artificial Intelligence), the Snapchat bot it will be pinned to the chat tab of the app, above conversations with friends. In this way it would be the first social network to do so. Although initially it will only be available to Snapchat Plus subscribers (€3.99 per month), the goal is to eventually make the bot available to Snapchat’s 750 million monthly users. Yes, Snapchat has more users than it seems. At launch, My AI is essentially just a quick mobile version of ChatGPT within Snapchat. The main difference is that Snapchat’s version of the AI ​​is even more restricted in what it can respond to. Snapchat employees have trained her to adhere to the company’s trust and safety guidelines and not provide responses that include profanity, violence, sexually explicit content, or opinions on sensitive topics like politics. The novelty: first AI that recommends what to give While ChatGPT has

Search still on for suspect in shooting death of Ione resident Corey Shearer Search still on for suspect in shooting death of Ione resident Corey Shearer 07:55 RANCHO CORDOVA - An investigation has quickly gone cold in the summer killing of 20-year-old Corey Shearer at a Rancho Cordova house party.Sacramento sheriff's detectives released a high-quality video in January of a person of interest. However, it was overshadowed by news coverage of flooding and epic storms.Shearer, his girlfriend Lexi Buetow, and a group of friends went to the Friday night party on Ramsgate Way on the night of August 5. She admits they didn't know who was behind the party, but says it was common for her friends from Amador County to attend parties like this one that they saw posted on social media. "We would find these parties on Snapchat," she said. "And we would just get a group of us together and go." Buetow says Corey went into the party first as she and the group waited outside for more friends. A few minutes later, she says Corey walked out. A man in front of him pulled a gun and shot Corey several times in the face.  "Without any

napchat recently launched an AI chatbot called "My AI" based on OpenAI's GPT technology. My AI is currently only available to Snapchat Plus ...