insert_link Tech Made Simple Tik Tok announces new Policy Changes to make the platform more “Safe and Secure” On the heels of its first Congressional hearing for product safety, TikTok has announced policy changes aimed at making the short-form video social platform safer and more secure, particularly for minors, LGBTQ and minority users. In October, TikTok vice president and head of public policy Michael Beckerman testified along with executives from Snapchat and YouTube, addressing questions from U.S. senators as to the social media site’s impact on teen eating […] todayFebruary 17, 2022
insert_link Fashion Kohl’s, Snapchat Team Up on an Easy Way to Shop for Athleisure Gear Department store chain Kohl’s teamed up with Snapchat on an augmented reality virtual closet earlier this spring, enabling Snapchatters to browse clothes from home via the messaging application. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the inventory in that virtual closet pivoted to athleisure items for the many people working from home. Snapchat’s AR Portal technology enables users to virtually browse a selection of Kohl’s athleisure products, and the app’s shoppable AR technology enables them […] todayMay 14, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Yap is becoming the New “It” Room for Chatting Are you a fervent chatter? You might want to check out Yap, the new chat application built by Postlight, a digital product studio, that seems to be the new "it" room for chatting it up. Yap is pretty simple. It’s a six-person chat room (“Because seven is annoying,” says the official blog), where every message you post erases the one you posted before it; you can only say one thing […] todayDecember 18, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Adobe Premiere Pro brings AI-powered Auto Reframe for Editing Videos for Your Social Apps Adobe is hoping to eliminate the tedious, time-consuming process that comes with editing videos for different social platforms with its new AI-powered Auto Reframe feature for Premiere Pro. For example, if you’ve got a video that you want to post to YouTube, the Instagram grid, and Instagram Stories, you’d currently have to manually edit that video for three different aspect ratios. Auto Reframe can automatically identify the main action happening […] todaySeptember 19, 2019
insert_link Health & Wellness Is Your Teen’s Time on Social Media Affecting their Mental Health? For some adolescents and teenagers, using social media like Twitter or Instagram can be as easy as breathing, and costs about as much. But a new study released Wednesday suggests there could be a hidden price: their mental health. Young people who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media are susceptible to depression, anxiety and other illnesses and are more likely to internalize bad feelings about […] todaySeptember 16, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Could Snapchat Employees be Spying on You? Companies store a ton of data. You know this. Everyone knows this. But we’re not always happy about the kinds of data they store. We rightfully get pretty touchy when we hear our address, credit card number, mental health inquiries, or private conversations are just hanging out on some internet server where they might wind up in the wrong hands — like, say, an employee of the company that collected […] todayMay 29, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Snapchat Set to Launch Gaming Program Cheddar reports that Snap may be launching a new gaming platform for Snapchat as early as next month at the company’s Snap Partner Summit in Los Angeles on April 4th. Then The Information reported last Summer that Snap was working on a gaming program. And CNET reported that Snap also bought an Australian game studio named Prettygreat back in January. Essentially, all signs point to yes, this is happening. This […] todayMarch 18, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Apple Puts the Smackdown on Facebook Apps Things are getting more heated between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to TechCrunch, Facebook had long been paying people $20 a month to download an app called Facebook Research that essentially gave the company full access to collect data from their phones, including which websites they visited, the messages they sent, and all the apps they used. However, the Facebook Research app wasn't […] todayFebruary 4, 2019
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