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New York City sues Meta, TikTok, and others over “manipulative and addictive features”
Feb 16, 2024
Dunja Đuđić
Yet another lawsuit has landed on the major social media platforms. This time, New York City has joined the growing wave of government entities suing…
Fire in the sky: Snap recalling all its Pixy drones over being a fire hazard
Feb 2, 2024
Dunja Đuđić
Breaking news for anyone who owns a Snap Pixy drone: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a total recall of all Pixy…
Meta launches new Ray-Ban smart glasses despite original’s poor reception
Sep 29, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
Around this time in 2021, Meta teamed up with Ray-Ban to announce Snapchat Spectacles-wannabe. Not surprisingly, Meta’s smart glasses weren’t as popular as the company…
Seattle schools sue TikTok, Meta, Snapchat, and YouTube over students’ mental health and behavioral issues
Jan 10, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube; and their parent companies are facing yet another lawsuit over mental health issues in children. This time, it comes from…
BeReal is developing a new feature for discovering friends of friends
Aug 31, 2022
Alex Baker
BeReal is currently working on an updated feature that will let you see posts by friends of friends. The new feature was noticed by developer…
Great, Snapchat now has dual camera too
Aug 30, 2022
Dunja Đuđić
“Anti-Instagram” app BeReal has been growing in popularity, and no surprise: other social media apps started copying. After Instagram (oh the irony), SnapChat is now…
Report: Snap ditches Pixy selfie drone only four months after its launch
Aug 19, 2022
Dunja Đuđić
Snapchat owner Snap Inc. released its first, and likely the last, selfie drone earlier this year. Only four months after it took off the ground,…
Meta acknowledges Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses privacy issues but isn’t really doing anything about them
Jul 15, 2022
John Aldred
Last September, the then Facebook teamed up with Ray-Ban to give us the new Ray-Ban Stories, their first pair of “smart glasses”. They combined the…
Snapchat’s $299 “pocket-sized” Pixy drone is now available to buy
Apr 29, 2022
John Aldred
Snap Inc, owners of Snapchat, have released their new Pixy drone. It’s a tiny “pocket-sized” drone designed specifically for shooting content on Snapchat. This little…
Rankin shoots world’s first magazine cover shot with FB smart glasses
Nov 22, 2021
Dunja Đuđić
Other than privacy concerns, it looks like Facebook’s and Ray-Ban’s camera glasses have also sparked creative ideas. Famous British photographer Rankin has recently shot the…