WhatsApp users are getting some new customization features – for a price. According to WABetaInfo, Meta is rolling out a WhatsApp Plus subscription to “a limited number of users,” offering several cosmetic and quality of life perks, including exclusive stickers, different app themes, custom app icons, premium ringtones, the ability to pin up to 20 […]
This sentence construction (“It’s not just this — it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that it’s no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it’s almost a guarantee.
The DDoS attack against Mastodon’s flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.
Tinder now lets you prove you are human by scanning your irises at a physical orb device made by Sam Altman’s World.
Here’s what I learnt after trying to kick Reddit and YouTube cold turkey for a month.
Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.
A new University of Bristol study suggests dieters may use indulgent food content as a craving substitute, even as other research links social media to body-image harm and disordered eating.
Watching food videos may help dieters reduce cravings and avoid overeating, according to new research.
YouTube’s new zero-minute Shorts timer removes them from your homepage entirely, giving you an easy way to cut back on scrolling without deleting the app.
YouTube’s time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes. The feature was expanded in January to give […]