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Meta-owned Instagram has announced new features on its short-video making app to empower creators.The social network has added a dedicated destination for trending audio and hashtags, two new metrics to Reels insights and brought gifts on Reels to more countries.Creators will now be able to see what the top trending topics and hashtags are on Reels. "We're making it easier for you to edit your reels on Instagram by bringing together video clips, audio, stickers, and text on a unified editing screen," said Meta.This makes…

As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of updates aimed at creators. Meta announced today that it’s adding a dedicated destination for trending audio and hashtags on Reels, expanding gifts on Reels to more countries, enhancing Reels editing tools, adding new metrics and more. With this latest update, creators will be able to see the top trending songs on Reels. They will be able to see how many times the audio has been…

Xiaomi is gearing up for the presentation of their new flagship, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, which is scheduled on April 18. The Chinese tech giant is expected to launch it alongside Xiaomi Pad 6. With the new collaboration with Leica camera manufacturer, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is expected to showcase impressive photographic capabilities that will challenge other leading smartphone brands. Design of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra Through a collaboration with Smartprix and acclaimed leaker @Onleaks, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra’s design has…

Update 3/28/2023, 4:00 p.m. ET: Elon Musk has amended his original announcement. Now, he says the plan was always that the “For You” section would continue to include “accounts you follow directly,” in a tweet posted nearly a full day after the original. “Forgot to mention...” he began the hours-late tweet—embedded below:Twitter Investor Sues Elon Musk Over Sneaky Stock PurchasesThe reversal is a not-uncommon hallmark of Musk’s messy business decision making process, which often includes back-tracking, changes, and…

Instagram is reportedly working on new features that will allow users to revisit the Reels that they recently shared. The feature will make it easier for users to reshare the Reels later with their friends on Instagram. As per a report by TechCrunch, a Turkey-based account called Dijital Aglar shared a post revealing details about the new feature. According to the post users will be able to see a row at the top of users' DMs with the "Latest Shares" label. The screenshots shared by the Turkish account also…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)During a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Senate lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle doubled down on calls to gut major provisions of the internet’s most important legal liability shield. The senators slammed tech companies for allegedly putting profits over user safety and criticized members of the Supreme Court who appeared hesitant to upend Section 230 protections during oral arguments last month. Supporters of Section 230 say its provisions are…

Backstage at the Piccadilly theatre was the place to be on 5 June 1988. In the midst of rampant homophobia in the papers, on the streets and in parliament, that night saw artful protest packed into a raucous, highly political and extraordinarily gay evening of entertainment.Organised by lesbian theatre group 20th Century Vixen, Before the Act was a benefit gala made in protest against Section 28, the legislation that had passed the previous month prohibiting local councils from distributing any material seen to “promote…

Shelley McKinley Contributor Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Last week marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. In oral arguments in the Gonzalez v. Google case, important questions were raised about platform responsibility and the risk of viral content. As the court grapples with these questions, it is an opportunity to reflect on why…

Though there is broad agreement that Section 230 needs an update, a partisan battle is keeping the stalemate going “This is a non-partisan issue,” said Douglas Mirell, a veteran litigator in First Amendment, entertainment and other media law who has written extensively about Section 230. “But the sides have problems with Section 230 for very different reasons: The progressive left says it’s allowing too much hate speech and disinformation … the right, for its part, says what’s going on here is that platforms aren’t…

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty ImagesOpenAI's wildly popular ChatGPT program won't receive the same protections received by social media when it comes to legal responsibility for content, according to an analysis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scholar Matt Perault posted Thursday on the blog Lawfare."Courts will likely find that ChatGPT and other LLMs are information content providers," wrote Perault, referring to the "large language models" that power ChatGPT and many similar natural language AI programs. …