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This Artist Filmed His Life With Snapchat Spectacles for a Year and Created a VR Time Machine

Time travel is one of those things that fascinate people. Although time travel currently isn’t possible—thank God, as if humans needed another way to make a mess of things—this creator decided to do the next best thing: film his life with the Snapchat Spectacles 3 for a year and create a virtual reality time machine.…

Tech News Jody Serrano

All the Sensors in Your Smartphone, and How They Work

Many of your smartphone's coolest feats are accomplished with a wide range of sensors—but what are they and what do they all actually do?

Gadgets David Nield

Snapchat: Both Black and White Employees Made the Offensive ‘Smile to Break Chains’ Filter

Snapchat apparently wants to make sure people know that both Black and white employees were involved in the creation of the offensive filter, or Lens in Snapchat jargon, it launched on Juneteenth that placed an approximation of the Pan-African flag behind users and asked them to smile to break the chains of slavery. The company…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Snapchat: Yeah, Our Juneteenth Filter Asking Users to Smile to Break Chains Was a Bad Idea

Snapchat received widespread criticism Friday for its Juneteenth filter that prompted users to celebrate the anniversary of the end of slavery in the U.S. by smiling to break chains. By mid-day, Snap quietly pulled the tone-deaf filter and the company has since issued a public apology. Apparently, this Lens was a beta version that went…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Trump Campaign Accuses Snapchat, a Platform That Still Exists, of ‘Trying to Rig the Election’

Following Twitter’s lead on (finally) expressing its disapproval on the President’s inflammatory tweets, Snapchat has, well, snapped too. Snap, the company behind the Snapchat app, says it has stopped promoting Trump’s Snapchat account on its Discover home page for news and stories because his public comments on other platforms could incite violence, the New York…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

A Global Pandemic Won’t Stop the Desperate Desire to Go Viral

There’s a lot happening on social media, more than any one person can safely keep up with. Do you need to know about it? At Hall Monitor, we provide you with a digest to help you make up your mind. The world is changing faster than the internet can meme it. Just yesterday, the stock market…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

How Online Platforms Are Tackling Coronavirus Misinformation

As the deadly coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in China and around the world, several social media kingpins are fighting the outbreak on a different front: By curbing the spread of misinformation and fake claims online amid a public health emergency. False information on the coronavirus has only been proliferating on certain platforms as more…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

The Best Authenticator Apps for Protecting Your Accounts

Finding the authenticator apps that will help ease your privacy concerns.

Gadgets David Nield

Thing I Instinctively Hate Likely to Become Wildly Popular

In its quest to create new ways to make its denizens dissociate from reality, Snapchat is launching a cartoon series that puts user avatars in the episodes. Snapchat first started placing Bitmojis into content in November 2018 with the launch of Bitmoji Stories—regularly published comic strips that make the beholder the protagonist of various scenarios…

Television Jennings Brown

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

Sometimes social media dipsomania comes into harsh relief, as it did today when the technology wars manifested themselves as the ability to superimpose your face on a cat: aka, Snapchat’s new social drug “Cameos.” It’s terrifying. As TechCrunch first reported, Snapchat has selectively released a beta version of a feature which allows users to scan…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

What’s Worse: These Gucci Snapchat Spectacles or the Video Promoting Them?

Despite multiple generations plagued by lackluster sales, Snap continues to pump out more versions of its try-hard Spectacles. But now, thanks to the release of some limited edition Gucci-themed Spectacles 3, we’re faced with an interesting question. What’s worse, the new Spectacles themselves, or the short film Snap made to promote them? At first glance,…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Snapchat Reportedly Has a Dossier of Dirt on Facebook to Share With the Feds

It looks like Facebook’s anti-competitive bullying tactics may finally be coming back to bite the social media giant. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that current and former Facebook rivals are speaking with the Federal Trade Commission about the company’s practice of either snapping up its competition (e.g. Instagram),…

Social Media Catie Keck

Snapchat Is Once Again Pivoting Back to News

Snap, parent company of Snapchat, is trying to do the whole social media platform tries to lure journalistic outfits into producing content for them thing again, per a report in the Information on Tuesday. Details are limited. But the Information’s sources said that Snap is talking with media companies about a “dedicated news section inside…

Tech News Tom McKay

Instagram Is Reportedly Building a New Messaging App Named Threads

Instagram is working on a new messaging app called Threads “meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends,” the Verge reported on Monday, in what seems like yet another attempt by a Facebook-owned property to edge in on Snapchat’s turf. According to the Verge, Threads is designed as a sister app…

Social Media Tom McKay

Snapchat Glasses, Except Now Way More Expensive

It seems Snap just can’t give up its obsession with techy camera glasses. That’s because after losing a buttload of money trying (and failing) to sell its first Spectacles, and later following up with a second model to little fanfare, today, Snap announced the Spectacles 3, which are somehow uglier than ever and come with…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Snap Back?

Snap Inc. has been slowly righting its ship recently, stymying its nose-diving stocks prices and exodus of users. The Snapchat creator’s Q2 2019 earnings imply that things are looking up. Ever since the company’s stock went public in March 2017, Snap’s been having a bit of a rough time to put it lightly. Starting in…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Florida Woman Charged With Felony After Daughter Is Filmed Licking Tongue Depressor in Medical Center

A woman who reportedly shared a video to social media of her daughter licking a tongue depressor at a medical facility in Jacksonville, Florida and replacing it in a jar of unused ones was arrested this week on a felony charge. Cori Ward, 30, allegedly filmed the video at the All About Kids & Families…

Tech News Catie Keck

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

A 20-year-old college student used the Snapchat gender-swap filter to catfish a cop on Tinder, in a creative act of vigilante justice. NBC Bay Area reported on Tuesday that the student told police that he set out to find potential pedophiles after his friend told him she was sexually assaulted during her childhood. Ethan (last…

Crime Jennings Brown

Major Google Outage Hits YouTube, G Suite, and Third Party Apps Including Discord and Snapchat [Updated]

Google suffered major outages with its Cloud Platform on Sunday, causing widespread access issues with both its own services and third party apps ranging from Snapchat to Discord. As of early Sunday evening, issues had persisted for hours; according to the Google Cloud Status Dashboard, the outages began at roughly 3:25 p.m. ET and were…

Tech News Tom McKay

Average User Still Spending 38 More Minutes On Facebook Per Day Than They Should

Facebook, a company so heinous that it was cited by the United Nations as being complicit in genocide, is still the most popular social network in the world. But people are at least spending less time on the site these days. A new report by eMarketer shows that the average American user of Facebook spent…

Social Media Matt Novak

This Artist Filmed His Life With Snapchat Spectacles for a Year and Created a VR Time Machine

All the Sensors in Your Smartphone, and How They Work

Snapchat: Both Black and White Employees Made the Offensive ‘Smile to Break Chains’ Filter

Snapchat: Yeah, Our Juneteenth Filter Asking Users to Smile to Break Chains Was a Bad Idea

Trump Campaign Accuses Snapchat, a Platform That Still Exists, of ‘Trying to Rig the Election’

A Global Pandemic Won’t Stop the Desperate Desire to Go Viral

How Online Platforms Are Tackling Coronavirus Misinformation

The Best Authenticator Apps for Protecting Your Accounts

Thing I Instinctively Hate Likely to Become Wildly Popular

Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat’s New Face-Swapping Feature

What’s Worse: These Gucci Snapchat Spectacles or the Video Promoting Them?

Snapchat Reportedly Has a Dossier of Dirt on Facebook to Share With the Feds

Snapchat Is Once Again Pivoting Back to News

Instagram Is Reportedly Building a New Messaging App Named Threads

Snapchat Glasses, Except Now Way More Expensive

Snap Back?

Florida Woman Charged With Felony After Daughter Is Filmed Licking Tongue Depressor in Medical Center

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

Major Google Outage Hits YouTube, G Suite, and Third Party Apps Including Discord and Snapchat [Updated]

Average User Still Spending 38 More Minutes On Facebook Per Day Than They Should

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Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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