As temperatures soar over here in the UK, in the US the heat is on TiktTok as Trump looks to wield executive power over Bytedance the Chinese owner of the popular platform, but is it legal? Speculation is rife over who might become TikTok’s new owner in the US, with Microsoft and now Twitter reportedly in the frame.
- With perfect timing, Instagram launches Reels dubbed the TikTok clone
- Snap brokers increased rights to add music to Snaps
- Facebook adds new sponsored post options for Groups allowing brands to target communities
- WhatsApp has launched a fact checking feature to stop the spread of misinformation
- Twitch Prime rebrands as Prime Gaming
- From self-care to social connection and of course sourdough, here are YouTube’s rising trends of COVID-19
- How two twins listening to old classics are making Dolly Parton and Phil Collins trend
- ‘NeRF n the wild’ may sounds like a new craze but it’s structuring collections of images into beautiful 3D images
- Google faked their Pixel4a launch with an incomplete webpage
- TwikTwok converts Twitter’s top videos into a TikTok feed
- IBM built an avatar to answer questions about marine litter
- TikTok announced the first recipients of their $1 billion creator programme
- Capture is a fitbit for carbon emissions
- Modelling nominative determinism, how to use AI to choose your baby name
- What will (inevitable) increasing regulation of tech look like?
- How cheap and easy deepfakes are getting closer to the real thing