Users are cleverly playing with profile banners. The setup usually starts with a post about struggling to crop or format an image. But when you click into their profile to check, the banner reveals ...

The like button is a standard feature of major social media platforms today like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, but it wasn't first introduced until 2005. The first social media platform to ...

Social media can be hazardous to your wealth. Researchers have found that social-media users tend to be less knowledgeable about finances and investments, overtrade their portfolios and incur ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

SYDNEY, July 30 (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the ...

Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important visuals. CSS background images aren’t indexed by Google Image Search. Google ...

One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. Luckily, journalists and creators ...

The latest viral car trend doesn’t involve mods or LED lights. It’s all about the sound your car greets you with. The setup is simple: TikTokers start recording before turning on the ignition, then ...

Google seems to be automatically adding social media links to Google Business Profiles. A post from Darren Shaw of Whitespark shows that hundreds or thousands of locations had their social media links ...

For some time now, Microsoft has also required users to log in to their computer with an online account in the home editions of Windows 10 and 11. Although it’s ...

A law that restricts social media use to people 16 and over goes into effect in December, but much about it remains unclear or undecided. By Victoria Kim Reporting from Sydney, Australia Australia has ...