Instagram is testing a new feature called Limits that allows users to lock their accounts and limit potential interactions if they feel they are the target of harassment. When introducing the tool, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, referred to the recent Euro 2020 final, in which three black players from the English national team … Read more
Instagram is testing that users have the ability to post to their feeds from their desktop browser. This is the first time the photo sharing app has allowed posting from outside of its app. The company confirmed the test to Engadget. “We know that a lot of people access Instagram from their computer,” said a … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
Primarily responsible for PATH’s COVID-19 diagnostic platform from left to right: Lorraine Lillis, Scientific Program Director for Diagnostics; Neha Agarwal, Assistant Director of Diagnostics, and Olivia Halas, Program Coordinator for Diagnostics. (PATH Photos) While all eyes are on the COVID-19 vaccine, the more dangerous variants of the virus are increasingly dominating. In Washington State, the … Read more