The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with…
Snap Recalls All of Its Selfie Drones Due to Fears They’ll Become Flying Fireballs
A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it.…
‘On My Way to Blow Up the Plane’: Teen Faces Huge Fine After Joke Leads to Fighter Jets Scrambling
Photo: NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP (Getty Images) In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his…
UC Irvine Students Hospitalized After Hackers Sent Disgusting Images to Their Discord Server
A disturbing cyberattack on Discord reportedly sent some University of California, Irvine students to the hospital on Wednesday, according to a CBS News report. Hackers infiltrated student Discord servers and…
Snapchat Finally Adds Embeds, Along With Some Lackluster AI
Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight…
Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can’t
Image: ThomasDeco (Shutterstock) As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the…
Snapchat Adds Linktree-in-Bio Feature
Image: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock) In the wake of Instagram effectively killing its reliance on Linktree, the social media landing page service has found a new titan to partner with. Snap and…
Snap’s Pixy drone flies off into the sunset as it’s reportedly canceled
Snap Inc. is grounding Pixy and ending future production of Snapchat’s selfie camera drone as part of a broader reprioritization of company resources.
Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in AR
Spectacles might finally reach their potential with the help of Snap’s augmented reality tech. In a “one more thing” moment at the Snap Partner Summit on Thursday, Snap CEO Evan…
Snap still isn’t very diverse, but its engineers are trying to build a more equitable product
Snap engineers are working to root out racial bias from the company’s products, even as improving diverse representation in the company’s workforce is slow going. Snap, Inc. released its second…