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The Beats1 Team Released First Snapchat Story, And Its Immersive
Snapchat can be a great platform for creating a video story of a particular topic of interest. The stories page on the app is all about watching the various “stories” your friends have posted or...
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My Favourite Top Posts With The #Kenya Tag on Instagram This Week
I decided to snoop around Instagram and check which are the top posts for the last two days. As you know, Instagram baked this functionality on mobile and desktop where they revamped the Explore tab...
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Russia Toying with the Idea of Banning Same-Sex Emojis
Russia may be planning to ban emojis presumed gay or promoting same-sex causes since they go against a law passed in 2013 that is against “gay propaganda”. Facebook rolled out gay pride emojis for...
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India Cracks The Whip on Pornography Websites
India’s government has directed Internet Service providers (ISPs) in the country to block more than 800 porn sites as reported by a local newspaper. These ISPs allegedly have confirmed receiving...
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This Lady Decided to Bring Emoji to Life Using Photography
People are obsessed with emoji, They are using them as passwords, in movies, making programming languages out of them, using them in press releases and now in an interesting case, a lady by the name...
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Blab is What Periscope Should Have Been From the Start
One thing that is common between new age live-stream apps like Meerkat & Periscope is that the only social part of it is in the comments section where people comment on your live-stream. The...
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Facebook’s Breakdown of How People Express Laughter has Surprising Results
People on the internet laugh in different ways “haha” “hehe” “lol” and using emojis. Facebook was curious about the whole internet laughing ways and decided to conduct research on it. Facebook decided...
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Facebook has a loophole and you need to fix it
Reza Moaiandin, a technnical director found a security loophole on Facebook by mistake. If you search someone’s phone number on Facebook, you can see his/her profile. This is very worrying according to...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence to Understand Jokes, Yup That’s been done
Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor for the New Yorker has an unusual problem: The magazine has this contest where funny captions are sent to them and this is a huge workload for his assistants since they...
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NASA has Joined Tumblr, Expect a Flurry of Cool Space GIFs
NASA has a huge presence on social media: They have official Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter accounts. Now, they have joined Tumblr in their quest to use social media to its entirety. Tumblr...
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This Kickstarter campaign wants to use IBM’s Watson in Fantasy football
A startup, Edge Up Sports aims to use IBM’s Watson to help people with fantasy football teams choose their lineups for the US National Football League. They will use IBM Watson Developer Cloud which...
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Alphabet, Google’s holding company was sort of predicted on Reddit a year ago
Google recently announced changes to its corporate structure by announcing Alphabet, a holding company which made Google as one of the subsidiaries. Larry Page, Google’s co-founder explained on the...
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Here are the Highest Earning YouTubers
From the beginning, people joined social media for fun but of late, some people have managed to carve out a living from them, even to the extent of it being quite lucrative. One of the social networks...
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The Elusive Bacon Emoji Is Coming Afterall, Avocado and Selfie too
There are over 800 emoji characters which can be found on multiple platforms in mobile and also on desktop. They have been used to show emotions, man-made and natural features but although it seems...
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Research: Two Thirds of People lie on Social Media
We have seen cases of people across the social media landscape who post updates which are later uncovered to be jacked from someone else or to be completely false. This is due to the “rewards” social...
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This Instagram Page is an Archive of Messages a Woman Received from Creeps
Stalkers are everywhere in real life and it is not surprising they are also present in social media. To counter stalkers online, popular social networking sites have features like block, mute, flag or...
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This Guy made a Twitter’s Version of a Scavenger Hunt
People tend to find creative ways of using social networking sites rather than the normal chatting and sharing posts. On Twitter to be specific, it has resulted in people creating stuff like games....
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You are being judged based on your selfie, by a bot
Selfies have evolved from being called self portraits in recent past and have become part of pop culture and social media thanks to the numerous platforms you can upload your photo to. There is a...
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Soon your Social Media History will be used to Create your Virtual Self
Cortana Internet based companies like Google and Facebook have a lot of data about us. They know our friends, how we look like, our commute patterns, our favourite places to hang out, browser history...
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Safaricom is 15 today and here are some of their iconic ads
Safaricom has progressed from being a subsidiary of Telkom back in 1997 to become the telecommunications magnate that it is today. The company has been able to be a part of our modern day culture by...
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