Instagram's controversial choice to switch from its chronological feed to the current algorithm-informed feed has been a hot topic since it was enacted in 2016. Recently, some suspicious activity has suggested that the app may soon switch back to the former arrangement. User @jackharding posted to his … Read More

Like Facebook, navigating through Instagram's settings will only give you the option to temporarily disable your account. Disabling your account will hide your profile, photos, likes and comments from the platform. Find the disable option by clicking the person icon in the top right corner and selecting Edit … Read More

Forced changes to our habitual Instagram activity never goes down well – note the public reaction to every Insta update as proof. There was the time Instagram controversially switched its logo, the algorithm change that affected who saw our posts and don't even get us started on the threat that …

The latest WhatsApp app version update adds a much needed prolonged timeframe to delete messages for all involved. The "Delete for everyone" option will now stay for 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds, instead of the seven minutes you had before. Very specific, we know, it's 4096 seconds, or …

If you use WhatsApp to communicate with your friends, you can now delete a message up to one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds after you send it. The “delete for everyone” function was first added to the app last October, but users only had seven minutes after sending a …

The meteoric rise in popularity of messaging apps means communicating with people around the world has never been easier, but it's also enabled us to send messages we later regret. Thankfully, WhatsApp is giving users longer to undo their shameful conversations by extending the time they can … Read More

If Twitter can continue to drive ad click-through while also keeping prices low for advertisers, the appeal of doing business on the platform will only continue to rise. The company also sees a long-term growth opportunity in its data licensing and enterprise segment, and an 11% year-over-year sales … Read More

London mayor Sadiq Khan says tech companies should show a “stronger duty of care” to live up to their promise of providing places where people can connect, and where information is shared equitably. According to excerpts of prepared remarks, Khan will excoriate platforms such as Facebook and … Read More

Aral, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says false stories on Twitter are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the true ones. And the study found that bots — Russian or not — had very little do with it. "The bot results points to human …

There are a lot of cash-sharing services out there that are specifically designed to be used between friends and family, as a way to split the bill without ever exchanging paper money. The most popular payment apps include Venmo, Google Wallet, Snapcash, and a handful of bank P2P services. Read …