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How to post to Instagram from your PC

Almost a decade after its launch, Instagram updated its website to let users upload posts from a PC. You can now do this without…

Facebook to ditch facial recognition system: What this means for users

Facebook has announced it is shutting down its facial recognition system, the technology it uses to identify people in photos and videos. The shutdown…

WhatsApp rolls out iOS to Android chat transfer

WhatsApp has begun to roll out the option for users to transfer their chat history from iOS devices to Android using an adapter cable….

WhatsApp rolls out ‘View Once’ feature for photos, videos: How to use it

WhatsApp has announced a ‘View Once’ feature that lets users send videos and photos that disappear after their contacts have opened them. WhatsApp said…

Check these Somerset West fire photos on Twitter, Instagram

Wind and hot weather has combined to deliver the first major wildfires in the Western Cape of 2017, with Somerset West’s blaze being one of…

Snapchat-inspired Stickers coming to Twitter photos

Between longer videos, Twitter Engage and targeted advertising for emojis, Twitter has been very busy over the past few weeks. Now, the company has unveiled…

Make panoramas great again: Facebook 360 photos roll out

We’ve covered it last month, but Facebook has finally started a worldwide rollout of its 360 Photos feature. The feature allows users to upload…

Facebook will turn your neglected panoramas into 360 photos for VR

Let’s be brutally honest for a second. Panorama shots don’t get as much love as they should. It could be argued that social media platforms and…

City of Cape Town bans selfies at tourist hotspots, will impose hefty fines [update]

It seems like the world is finally starting to crack down on selfies. Following a series of bans from the Smithsonian museum in Washington,…

Apple is dropping iPhoto, Aperture for cleaner Photos app

Since 2007, when first introduced, the iPhone has taken the art of taking photos out of the hands of niche photographers and into the mainstream,…

Twitter now lets you stick multiple photos in a tweet and tag people

Yeah, a picture’s worth a thousand words… but sometimes you need more than one snapshot to get your point across. With Twitter’s latest update,…

Facebook launches new photo colab feature

This is an idea so obviously good that you’ve got to wonder why it took Facebook so long to come up with it. The…

Photo-based MXit app shows impressive growth — 400k users in one month

An app inside mobile social network MXit is showing some fairly impressive growth. The app, called JudgeME, was developed by mobile social network builder…

10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch

So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday… what, you weren’t in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats…

Check out these jaw-dropping photos from Nokia’s 808 PureView

Nokia’s 808 PureView camera phone with its 41-megapixel sensor blew people away at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday. It combines Nokia’s highest performing…

Here’s why Samsung reached deeper in its pockets after low profits

Clickatell launches WhatsApp payments on FlySafair

Africa’s top start-ups off to Copenhagen for GSA finale

Oikocredit invests $5m in Yellow to grow solar energy market

Here’s why OpenAI will charge for priority access to Chat GPT

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