The Greatest App of All Time Day 17: Instagram vs. WhatsApp

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s tournament was a bloodbath with Calculator taking more than 87 percent of the vote. Twitch goes home empty-handed. Today, we have the crown jewels of Zuckerberg’s empire going head-to-head. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all … Read more

Creeps Will Have a Harder Time Sliding Into Instagram and Facebook DMs

Photo: Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Meta no longer allows teenagers to receive direct messages from anyone they’re not following on Instagram, or friends with on Facebook, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The policy update aims to create a safer environment for minors on the platform, one week after Meta’s internal documents revealed … Read more

Fb Lets Mother and father See Who Youngsters Are Speaking to Messenger

Meta has unveiled a set of recent security instruments supposed to offer dad and mom extra oversight of their teen’s exercise on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Beginning at this time, dad and mom and guardians can view how a lot time their teen spends on Messenger, obtain updates on modifications to their contact lists and … Read more

Match Group’s ‘Archer’ App Desires to Supply Homosexual Males So Many Targets They Can’t Miss

Match Group, the corporate that’s principally recognized for gobbling up a few of the hottest apps within the relationship market, introduced Thursday it’s now selling its personal app referred to as Archer. Relatively than one other Tinder clone, Archer is particularly geared for homosexual, bisexual, and queer males. Greater than that, devs are hoping that … Read more

Google will label faux photographs created with its A.I.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote handle on the Google I/O builders convention at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, Might 10, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Photographs Information | Getty Photographs Google will embed info known as a markup inside photographs created by its AI fashions to warn folks the photographs had been … Read more