HIGHLIGHTS Instagram has brought a shopping feature to Stories Brands such as Adidas and Louis Vuitton will leverage the new feature Shopping experience was originally a part of Instagram Feed Months after gaining traction from over 300 million daily active users, Instagram Stories will now start selling products. The fresh development has expanded the shopping experience on Instagram as previously its feed was exclusively serving ads to ... Read More »
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This spray-on memory will let you store data on any surface or object
A “spray-on” memory that allows for a tiny amount of data to be printed onto surfaces has been created by a team from Duke University. Students at the institution used an aerosol jet printer and nanoparticle inks to create a material capable of storing data that is also incredibly flexible. The chemists behind the project say the method, if adapted ... Read More »
Facebook to Let Users Buy Tickets Directly
Facebook users will soon be able to buy tickets directly as the social networking giant expands further into e-commerce, company officials said Tuesday. Facebook will in the coming weeks connect to ticketing leaders Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, which will offer an option to buy tickets for selected US events listed on the networking site. Eventbrite said it would provide a QR ... Read More »
Facebook Fixes Flaw That Could’ve Let Anyone Access Your Account
Facebook has awarded a sum of $15,000 (roughly Rs. 10 lakhs) to an India-born security researcher. Anand Prakash received the bug bounty from Facebook after disclosing a vulnerability in the social juggernaut’s website that enabled an attacker to gain access to anyone’s account. Prakash discovered a vulnerability on Facebook website that allowed him to change the user account password for ... Read More »
2016 ICC World Twenty20: Facebook, Instagram Let You Support Your Favourite Team
To cater to cricket fans around the world, social media giant Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram have tied up with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to let fans support their teams competing in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. “From March 8 to April 3, 16 men’s and 10 women’s cricket teams will face each other to determine who ... Read More »
Facebook Will Soon Let You Turn Off All Live Video Notifications
Facebook last year rolled out its Live Video feature to celebrities, followed by a rollout to verified profiles and pages on iPhone and Android. While all this is increasing the user engagement on Live Videos, many of them are finding it annoying whenever someone goes live and an unwanted notification is sent to them. This becomes more troublesome when users ... Read More »
Facebook Messenger May Soon Let You Pay in Offline Stores: Report
Over the past few months, Facebook has been aggressively making its instant messenger Messengermore capable by adding the ability to send money to a friend and talk to an AI bot. It seems the company has two more interesting features lined up, if the code of the iOS app is any indication. According to a report, Facebook could soon add ... Read More »