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GIPHY Arcade is a new subsection of GIPHY’s online site dedicated to bite-sized games. If you remember the days of Flash games such as Desktop Tower Defense, Red Remover and Bookworm, you’ll find GIPHY Arcade to be a familiar concept to you.

Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, mysteriously blacked-out over the weekend. The outage occurred on Sunday, Oct. 13 at roughly 2pm US Eastern time. Players had logged in to “The End”—a special event Fortnite held to mark the end of its tenth season—where a rocket blew up in the game and plunged everyone into a black hole.

Instagram’s new integrated Dark Mode was officially launched on 9 October 2019 for iOS13 and Android 10. The Dark Mode allows the user to change the background of Instagram to black, allowing the user to scroll through their Instagram feed with ease on their eyes in low light conditions. This could have significant health benefits for users and is one of the app’s most requested for features.

Facebook’s ambitious Live Maps project points to the revolutionary power of AR, writes Arnaud Robin,...

If you’re a brand or a content creator, it’s crucial that you’re well informed about the kinds of conversations that are happening around your videos, the best way to do so, would be to keep track of the comments that you are getting.

Over the last few months, we've heard more and more about deepfakes - a technique for human image synthesis...

At Oculus Connect 6, Facebook introduced Horizon, a giant virtual reality playground where users can build their own worlds, create and play games, or just socialize with friends who are represented by legless animated avatars.

Ahead of advertising week, Facebook introduced three new interactive ad formats:

Social media is a 2-way street where as much as it enables people to connect with each other, it also exposes its users to more criticism and judgement (Think “Mean Girls” where as long as you are not in the pack, you’re bound to be ridiculed”). As such, Studies have linked the increase of depression, anxiety and self-harm to the use of social media.

Social media platforms are now more than just a place where you can share your #OOTDs and share updates on your daily life.

Snap is taking its augmented reality tools to a much bigger canvas. The company boosts Lens Studio, their desktop app, with a collection of new features: new Landmarker templates, more facial lens templates, and an interactive tour for first-time users.

Tiktok, the social media platform that confounds Millenials but speaks to Gen-Z audiences worldwide, has now released a new e-commerce feature. Termed Hashtag Challenge Plus, Tiktok will now allow users to purchase products related to sponsored Hashtag challenges within its app. Users are first encouraged to post videos with a brand product, using the sponsored hashtag and participating in the viral hashtag trend. They can then proceed to purchase a brand’s product without ever leaving the platform.