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Instagram may soon let you control who can see when you like other peoples’ posts and reels. The social media app is readying a crucial new privacy tool that allows you to completely hide the likes that you have made or limit the visibility to your close friends or people you follow. The tool is currently in development and doesn’t have a release timeline. Instagram prepares to let you hide your likes from other users Until 2019, Instagram allowed users to see what people they followed were interacting with on the app.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Slow motion is a popular style tactic for short videos on social media. Marketing researcher Anika Stuppy of Tilburg University shows that slow motion increases the number of likes and views of videos and stimulates brands' preference, choice and willingness to pay. There are conditions to its use, however. The research helps marketers use slow motion more effectively.…

Social media giant Meta is testing a new privacy feature for its photo and video sharing platform Instagram. This new feature will help users to select who can see their likes on posts and reels. An X user named Hamood Oh has shared a few screenshots on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform (spotted by PhoneArena) to reveal that the feature is being tested on the beta version of Instagram. How this feature may workThese screenshots reveal that the feature will offer four different options for Instagram. Users will be…

Britney Spears, the pop icon known for her chart-topping hits and iconic performances, recently took to Instagram to share her thoughts on the "weird" experience of being single. The singer, who has been in the spotlight for her conservatorship battle, added a touch of humour to her post by featuring a picture of a nun. FILE PHOTO: Britney Spears poses at the premiere of "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo(REUTERS) In the Instagram…

This year's AI stock frenzy has papered over cracks in the semiconductor market. Beyond the enthusiasm for the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., it's a mixed picture for investors.  Recent earnings pointed to slumping industrial and networking chip markets, while some on Wall Street are bracing for the impact of a potential economic slowdown on automobile chips. On the flip-side, smartphone components and personal computers look set for recovery, according to Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp.…

As the most popular online video-sharing platform, YouTube is constantly evolving to offer a richer experience to its users. The Google-owned platform has recently rolled out some cool features, including stable volume, screen lock, and the “You” tab. But the latest addition to YouTube could be a real-time view and likes counter. The count of views and likes are the main parameters to determine the popularity of content on YouTube. The platform also monetizes videos based on their views and interactions. The current…

Grand Theft Auto VI will be officially unveiled on December 5, and the game is expected to break all kinds of records. It's already broken one, as Rockstar's social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter, has become the most-liked gaming-related post on the social media site of all time. It currently has 1.9 million likes and 495,000 retweets. The post has tallied more than 166 million views, according to X's data. VGC reported that that the previous most-liked gaming tweet ever also belongs to…

As if the unskippable ads that made so many people use adblockers with YouTube aren’t enough of a nuisance, Google might have found another way to ruin the free YouTube experience. The company is adding live counters for YouTube views and likes that update in real-time. Who in their right mind would want that to interfere with the videos they’re watching on YouTube?I’ll point out that Google is annoyed at people using adblockers. It’s trying to ban them, but it hasn’t gotten there just yet. Of course, adblockers…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today's technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia and even personal attacks on people who have the audacity to disagree with someone else's political opinion—these and other forms of online hate present an ugly side of humanity. …

Out of the myriad Love Actually character stories from the beloved 2003 holiday rom-com—which Timothée Chalamet recently dubbed "the best Christmas movie of all time"—star Hugh Grant has a clear favorite. And, no, it's not his own.Grant played a U.K. prime minister who gets swept up in romantic feelings for Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), a junior member of his household staff, in the Richard Curtis-directed flick. Those feelings were so strong that Grant's character famously shimmied his way through 10 Downing Street to…