Vine Releases Private Messaging Feature
Vine released a new private messaging feature Thursday. Users can now send video and text messages to one another through the app. Users can record a video message, add text, and send it to those in ...
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Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is Not What You’d Expect
Paper doesn’t quite fit the typical Facebook mold. For starters, the standalone app took the company nearly 30 months to build — a lifetime by Facebook’s “move fast and break things...
Twitter Testing ‘Fave People’ Feature
For those who follow hundreds of accounts on Twitter, you know how easy it is to miss tweets from the ones you care about most. Now, the microblogging site is testing a “Fave People” time...
8 Ways Tech Has Completely Rewired Our Brains
Technology has altered human physiology. It makes us think differently, feel differently, even dream differently. It affects our memory, attention spans and sleep cycles. This is attributed to a scie...
Google Hangouts on iOS Now Looks Like Messenger, WhatsApp
Google gave its Hangouts app for iOS a complete overhaul on Thursday — one that will look very familiar to users of other mainstream messaging apps. The new iOS app includes tabs along the bottom of ...
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘We Want to Create a Dial Tone for the Internet...
In his first major appearance since Facebook’s stunning $16 billion acquisition of mobile messaging company WhatsApp last week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the Mobile World Congress on Mo...
Facebook Flip-Flops on Messenger After WhatsApp Acquisition
It was just four months ago that Facebook updated its standalone messaging app, Messenger, with the goal of making the user experience more like texting. That task appears to be easier said than done...
Facebook Announces News Reader App ‘Paper’
Well that didn’t take long. Just 24 hours after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised more standalone apps in 2014, the company announced Paper on Thursday, a standalone news reader mobile app ...
Apple to Build Mobile-Payments Service, Report Says
Apple is preparing to expand its presence in the mobile-payment space, according to a new report. Eddy Cue, the company’s senior vice-president of Internet software and services, has met with &...
MeMini Is a Wearable Camera That Captures Moments After They Happen
Video can capture priceless moments — but not if you miss the shot. meMINI is a wearable Wi-Fi-enabled camera with recall, which helps users save film-worthy moments in high-definition video after th...