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Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing app Snapchat, is laying off 20 percent of its staff this week, which equates to over 1,000 employees. [Read More]
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The Explode app allows users to send disappearing photos in iMessage -- in a similar way to features on Snapchat and WhatsApp. [Read More]
Snapchat has reserved the right to put its users' faces on ads and personalized sponsored content with its "My Selfie" feature. [Read More]
A police officer in Ohio was fired after posting a Snapchat photo of himself using the Ski Mask Lens filter in the app -- a photo the town's mayor says has "troubling racial connotations." [Read More]
In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images. [Read More]
The new series of Samsung Galaxy S24 phones will be the first-ever to upload and display HDR photographs on Instagram and Snapchat. [Read More]
BeReal has launched a new feed for photos exclusively of famous people in a bid to stay relevant.
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