Meta introduced several new programs and features in 2022 designed to improve security and safety on its platforms, the company said in its year-end news release . Last year, parent company Facebook and Instagram continued to focus on initiatives aimed at eliminating covert influence operations and spyware, as well as bug detection. Reprisals against coordinated misbehaviorAmid concerns about Russian interference…

AirTags are useful devices to help you find keys and other items. However, there have been some concerns about AirTags being used for stalking - after all, it's pretty easy to slip them into someone's bag. That was the subject of an article in The Washington Post , which found that by placing one of the small devices in a…

Instagram is releasing four new Reels templates that allow users to create videos with comments about their 2022 highlights. With this launch, Instagram still allows users to customize their year's highlights to share with subscribers. Traditionally, Instagram users would end the year with a post highlighting the top nine photos and videos. Last year, Instagram switched to video, encouraging users…

Finally, the business is introducing a number of new features for Android smartphones and Wear OS smartwatches. These features are expected to become available soon, and they will add many interesting new features to the Android user interface.Enhance your holiday images and publications with holiday editingMore recently, Google Photos updated its collage editor with new styles, making it easier to…

Meta is introducing new ways to make money on Facebook, as well as an update that allows authors to get paid faster.Meta includes Stars for all publicly available Facebook content, including Reels, and runs events throughout the month to encourage users to buy Stars.Meta also lowers the threshold that creators need to meet to receive their first payment. Here's how…

Shoppers may have started their holiday gift shopping early this year - but they still turned out for deals. Online sales for Black Friday hit a record $9.12 billion -- up 2.3 percent from last year, Adobe Analytics, the Web analytics division of Adobe, reported. That was higher than the 1 percent year-over-year sales growth forecast. Cyber Monday sales hit…

Artificial intelligence may soon disrupt a new area of your business: how your employees get into the office.Biometric authentication is a type of touch-free technology that uses biometric identifiers at entry points into a building, rather than ID cards or access codes that can be stolen. Using biometric indicators for frictionless access control to reduce the spread of germs, as…

At the iPhone 14 event in September, Apple talked a lot about the new features of the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro that could save your life. If, say, you ever have an accident or if you ever find yourself without cell service, your iPhone 14 now has a failure detection and SOS via satellite, which will transmit a…

Google's new guide to ranking systems will inform you about which systems Google uses to rank search results and which are obsolete.Google also introduces new terminology in its latest guide, distinguishing between "ranking systems" and "updates" to rankings.A system such as RankBrain is constantly running in the background. An update, on the other hand, refers to a one-time change in…

Twitter is launching three new advertising options designed to get people to visit and take action on companies' websites.Twitter's new advertising products include:Website Conversion OptimizationDynamic product adsCollection ads.Twitter said in a blog post that its new ad units "will provide middle and bottom funnel results for advertisers and increase relevance to people on Twitter."Here's how the new ad options can…

Google's handling of user data has long been a concern for data privacy enthusiasts. While the tech giant has undergone relatively few data breaches in recent history, its control over the Android platform allows them to collect an unprecedented amount of data. Now Google is taking additional steps to ensure that user data is collected on non-mobile devices as well.…

In 2017, cryptocurrency exchange Binance created the first new type of blockchain-based digital asset: the BNB coin, designed to encourage customer behavior such as trading or referring friends to its own platform. "A model for building a scalable and efficient cryptocurrency business," CoinDesk editor Pete Rizzo said in 2019 after Binance moved the coin to its own blockchain. "Incredible brilliance.The…

Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced the release of a beta version of Omniverse, a platform on which developers and creators can create Metaverse applications. Thus, the company has aligned its future according to the vision of the metauniverse, and the new platform allows users to create «digital duplicates» to simulate the real world.One such step on the way to realizing…

Former Meta (formerly Facebook) manager Nikita Beer has launched a new app called Gas, which has overtaken giant competitors like Instagram, Twitter and others. According to the Wall Street Journal, Gas is "the hottest app right now," and costs like 1 platform in the app store.A week after its official launch, the platform has gone viral mostly among high school…

Google finally introduces the local search features announced earlier this year, including the ability to search around with your phone’s camera.At the Google Search On virtual conference in September, people were discussing innovative local search updates.Google has previously introduced the ability to search restaurants for food and a new search feature built into Live View on Google Maps.These updates and…