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Instagram  has long struggled with moderating its posts (most often around whether or not female  nipples are allowed ). Now the company is offering up a partial solution: it will soon begin  blurring “sensitive” posts , which you will need to manually reveal. Instagram doesn’t specify what qualifies as a “sensitive” post other than it having been reported by a user and then deemed so by a moderator. However, the company does say these posts don’t actually violate Instagram’s community guidelines, they might just make some people unhappy: As part of our goal to build a safe environment, we also have some updates to announce. Soon you may notice a screen over sensitive photos and videos when you scroll through your feed or visit a profile. While these posts don’t violate our guidelines, someone in the community has reported them and our review team has confirmed they are sensitive. This change means you are less likely to have surprising or unwanted experiences in the app. If yo

Emoji 5.0 has 69 new candidates coming in a few months. We ranked which ones we thought were the best. 1 Face with finger covering closed lips New emoji are expected to be released in a couple of months, and  Emojipedia on Thursday  offered up a look at all 69 new candidates. Here are our favorites This emoji has the most potential when you want to throw social media shade at people you've never met online. A quick shush is much fewer characters than typing out entirely "never tweet." For now, it's the closest emoji to say "stfu" with some subtlety. Photo by: Emojipedia 2 Face with monocle This emoji is essentially the thinking face, just replace the hand on the chin with a monocle on the right eye. Just look at how perturbed this emoji is. Photo by: Emojipedia 3 Face with one eyebrow raised It's like a toned down version of the thinking face emoji, for when you're skeptical of som

Here's how to listen to and delete recordings on your Google account, and how to stop them from being saved to begin with. When you ask Google a question, these recordings are automatically saved to your Google account. While the recordings are only accessible by you, they may include some private information you don't feel comfortable having in the cloud. There's no reason to panic. It's easy to access and delete recordings, and prevent Google from saving them in the first place. Here's what you need to know: Voice activity management Head to the Voice & Audio Activity page. You may be prompted to sign-in again. Play voice recordings. Nicole Cozma/CNET You can listen to recordings using the Play button under each one. This is useful if you recall using voice search to look up something like a movie or book title recently, can't remember the exact words, and want to learn more about it now. Choose the time frame that you want to delete. Nicol

Google Allo still exists. Furthermore, it's still not been forgotten by the search giant, and keeps on getting updates once in a while. Today is one such occasion, and this time the news isn't new stickers - just kidding, there's some news about stickers, but it's not the most important. That award would go to the newly launched function that lets you share documents and other types of files through Allo. Here's the list of supported file extensions: .pdf, .doc, .apk, .zip, and .mp3. That should make users happy, and it's important to note that while some of Allo's competitors (say, WhatsApp) do offer similar functionality, some don't (Facebook Messenger for example). To share such files just use the new paper clip icon seen above, while you're in any Allo conversation. Tapping that will take you to your device's file explorer, where you can select what you want to share. The odd thing is that you can't share Google Docs, Slides, and S

Image caption Twitter says it has suspended a total of 636,248 accounts since mid-2015 Twitter says it shut more than 377,000 accounts for promoting terrorism in the second half of last year. It represents a 60% increase on the last numbers provided by the company, which covered the period from February to August 2016. Twitter has faced pressure to do more to stop groups such as so-called Islamic State from using its platform. Last year, MPs said it had become a "vehicle of choice" for spreading extremist propaganda on the internet. In Twitter's  latest transparency report  - which covers the period from 1 July to 31 December 2016 - it said internal measures to tackle the issue had improved. It said that 74% of the accounts it had suspended had been "surfaced" by internal, proprietary spam-fighting tools. That compares with a third in its previous figures. It also said it had shut a total of 636,248 accounts for promoting terror since August

Instagram’s advertiser base has doubled again. The Facebook-owned photo and video app is announcing that it now has 1 million monthly active advertisers, compared to  500,000 in September  and  200,000 just over a year ago . Some of that growth can be attributed to the simple fact that a lot of people use Instagram — 400 million every day, as of January. But James Quarles, who leads Instagram’s ad business, said the platform stands out in a few key ways, beyond just attracting a lot of eyeballs. First, he said Instagram is a place where people follow their passions, whether that’s “a very mainstream thing like following their favorite musician, or a niche business like candy art.” One sign that that’s paid off for companies with a presence on Instagram: 80 percent users follow a business. Second, there’s the “ease and simplicity” of using Instagram. For example, Quarles said, “It takes only four taps to place an ad on a business profile.” And lastly, he said Instagram is

In a horrific incident that unfolded in Chicago over the past couple of days, a 15-year-old girl who had been missing since Sunday was sexually assaulted by several young men, and the attack was broadcasted on  Facebook Live . While the clip has since been taken down by Facebook after being ordered to do so by Chicago police, it was being watched simultaneously by roughly 40 people – none of whom phoned authorities to report it.  Thankfully, the girl was found on Tuesday and reunited with her mother. However, the perpetrators are still at large, and that raises a number of difficult questions. For starters, what prevented the livestream viewers from alerting the police? It could have something to do with what’s called the  Bystander effect , which is described as a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. There are many factors that contribute to this, but it leads me to wonder whethe

Whoa! This unusual (and risk-free) hack can free up hundreds of megabytes, or maybe even a couple gigabytes. 0:56 0:00 It seems like iPhone storage is always at a premium, especially if you have an entry-level model with just 16GB (an economic necessity for many an iPhone owner). It's the rare user who doesn't know the pain of trying to download a new app or snap a few more photos and seeing the dreaded "not enough storage" message. You've probably heard all the usual "free up space" tips, but I'm willing to bet you haven't heard this one. It's an honest-to-goodness magic trick, one that may fill you with joy while simultaneously making you a little mad at Apple. Your iPhone doesn't need to be jailbroken, and this doesn't void your warranty or involve any kind of risk. Try it, and see what happens. Here's the drill: Step 1:  Tap the Settings app and then tap  G

It’s been just about a year since Google  unexpectedly announced  the first preview of Android Nougat. Today, the company is launching the first developer preview of the next version of its mobile operating system, currently code-named  Android O  (but we’re really hoping it’ll become  Android  Oreo once it’s released). One major difference between the early Android N and O previews is that Google immediately made over-the-air updates of Android N available to anybody who wanted to give it a try (and those early releases were surprisingly stable and functional). This time around, it’s not launching the new release into the Android Beta channel right away. Instead, developers who own a Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Pixel, Pixel XL or Pixel C device (or want to use the emulator) will have to  manually download  and flash their devices. After a bit more testing with developers, Google will open enrollment into O through Android Beta. “For this release, we wanted to focus on gi