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Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety features for young people, the Facebook-owned social media app said Monday. Instagram has explored building a version of its app for kids under the age of 13, prompting lawmakers to urge Facebook …

Under the supervision of the Higher Committee of Digital Government in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, the Department of Government Support, DGS, represented by the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, ADDA, has announced the official internet top level domain name for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, “.abudhabi”, which represents the digital …

Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram has decided to remove the swipe-up feature, which lets creators and brands direct users to third-party websites. It has already been sending in app notifications informing the users that the feature will not be visible from August 30.But that doesn’t mean the social media platform in …

After rolling out a new feature that allowed users to send messages that disappear after seven days, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is now reportedly working on a similar update that will have messages disappear after 90 days. Earlier, the popular messaging application had stated that it is working on view once messages …

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the selection of the first Emirati analog astronauts, Abdallah AlHammadi and Saleh AlAmeri, for the UAE Analog Mission#1 that forms part of the Scientific International Research in Unique Terrestrial Station (SIRIUS) SIRIUS 20/21, an 8-month analog mission that will be conducted …

On a long enough timeline, every social media app trends to adding stories, and now it’s apparently TikTok’s turn: the popular video app is experimenting with a new stories feature. The new feature, simply called “TikTok Stories,” appears to work similarly to other stories functions on apps like Instagram or …

WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they’ve been opened by the recipient. When sending a photo or video, you can make it view once by tapping the “1” button to the left of the send button. After the …

Instagram Reels can now be up to one minute long, double the previous 30-second time limit. Instagram initially debuted Reels with a brief 15-second time cap, then quickly doubled it just a month later. Reels is now nearly a year old, so it seems it’s time for an update again. …

The YouTube app for Android has now become only the second app to surpass a whopping 10 billion downloads over on the Google Play Store.Video streaming has exploded in popularity over the past decade with improving global internet speeds, the introduction of 4G devices, and access to smartphones/tablets. As the …

Instagram is adding a new option to automatically translate text in story posts, the company announced today. Now, when the service detects a foreign language in a post, it will display a “See Translation” option on the top left of the screen, which users can tap to see a translation …