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• Google rolls out a chat feature in Google Photos — use it before it’s axed

  Google has a notorious habit of launching a new messaging app now and then. The lineup includes – both active and inactive ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit's DataIsBeautiful is sick of bar chart races — so it's banning them

  The moderator team of Reddit's DataIsBeautiful community has been getting an avalanche of spammy race charts, so it's temporarily ...

  • Mix

• Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down — go back to work

  Yep, it's not just you: Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are all down right now — and nobody knows why. Find something ...

  • Mix

• How smartphones get African millennials addicted to sports betting

  When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms ...

  • The Conversation

• How Facebook crammed all its major features into a 2MB Lite app

  Over the past few years, several major mature tech companies including the likes of Google, Uber, Spotify, and Twitter have ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Popular Android apps are shipping with outdated bug-ridden software

  Researchers have found that several popular Android apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WeChat, come with outdated software ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Loog Pro review: You won't find a better guitar for kids, but the app might frustrate you

  The best way to learn how to play a guitar is whichever method works for you. Anyone who tells you different is either selling something or justifying a purchase. That being said, in my experience the best guitar to teach your kids to play on – through whatever method you choose ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This 'elitist' dating app matches you up for 2-minute livestream dates

  Starting from December 1, the League Live feature will automatically pair singles up, based on their mutual preferences and ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Disney+ accounts are being stolen and sold online

  Scarcely a week after the service debuted, Disney+ accounts area already being hacked en masse. Users report their accounts ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple relaunches its WWDC app with a new name and mobile-friendly dev content

  Last night, Apple released a dedicated mobile app for developers  with videos and articles on various design and development ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Instagram cracks down on app that allowed users to stalk private profiles

  Instagram is cracking down on Ghosty, an Android and iOS app that allowed users to look into private profiles without their ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 146 security flaws uncovered in pre-installed Android apps

  Researchers at Kryptowire have uncovered 146 security vulnerabilities in preinstalled apps across 29 Android handset manufacturers. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan