Like TikTok, Triller’s focus is on short-form video content. And, since Triller added a social element to its platform in 2018, any Triller influencer marketing campaign can include influencers creating and sharing videos to promote your brand and products with their followers, throwing their own authority behind your brand and inspiring trust in your brand through the trust they have with their followers. Triller has experienced slow but steady growth since coming onto the scene in 2015, but its popularity has surged since TikTok has run into trouble, being banned in India and facing a potential ban in the United States....

Filming on Marvel, ABC, and IMAX’s Inhumans mini-series may already be underway, but it appears they’ve added a new cast member in Chad James Buchanan. The first-of-a-kind series will see the first two episodes debut for a limited time in IMAX on September 1st before all eight episodes air on a weekly basis on ABC, and the cast and crew have been working on the project in Hawaii for the past few weeks....

Instagram Subscriptions has yet another feature coming to the social media to help creators increase revenue while also making the app more attractive than its current competitor TikTok. Here’s what’s new. Instagram Subscriptions was announced this morning by Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to him, creators will have a destination for subscriber-only content on their profiles, post exclusive Reels for subscribers, and share feed posts that only subscribers can access....

One of Snapchat’s most popular features is its private chat platform, which is coincidentally the sole feature that Instagram has struggled to copy. Instagram, however, has started to roll out new capabilities to its Direct platform that it hopes will give it an advantage over Snapchat… As reported by TechCrunch, Instagram has expanded the options available to users when they send a photo or video from the Instagram Direct camera. Now, users can choose to allow recipients to view the message once, replay it temporarily, or see a permanent thumbnail in the chat log....

After adding support for following hashtags earlier this month, Instagram is now rolling out a new “Recommended for You” feature, TechCrunch reports. This feature will see the social network insert posts it thinks you may like directly into your feed… “Recommended for You” has been rolling out to select Instagram users over recent days, but the company has officially acknowledged the feature in a new Help document today. Instagram explains that what appears in this section is based on posts liked by the other accounts you follow....

Instagram is all about sharing experiences, be it through photos or quick videos. Now the company wants to let you share your burst photos as videos, too. On Thursday, October 22, Instagram officially announced a new app called Boomerang. With the app, users will be able to take a series of quick photos, burst photos, after which the app will automatically stitch them together and create “mini video” from the results....

The Drug Enforcement Administration has warned in a recent internal document that iMessage’s secure end-to-end encryption is preventing law enforcement from eavesdropping on suspects in criminal investigations. CNET got its hands on the document that warned “it’s ‘impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices’—even with a court order approved by a federal judge”: Christopher Soghoian, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, said yesterday that “Apple’s service is not designed to be government-proof....

One more important thing to be noted is Hash Functions and Cryptography are altogether totally different from each other. Encryption is a two-way function i.e. encrypted data needs to be decrypted using a private key, thus they are reversible. Hashing or hash functions are one-way functions (i.e., hashes cannot be reversed). Thus, hashing is faster than cryptography. The most common use of hashing is password checking. When the user enters the password, the hash of the password is generated and compared with the hash in the database....

The common variable types A variable defines the amount of memory to be allocated for a particular type of data and how that memory chunk should be used for an application. The various different types of variables are differentiated either by the size of the memory chunk that they use or how the data stored at that memory block should be interpreted. The table above shows definitions for some of the most common types of variables in 32- and 64-bit architectures....

Investors fear that the fate of global stock markets are too heavily dependant on a handful of tech giants, Apple among them … Investors are now concerned that they have a disproportionate influence on broader stock indexes like the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite. The NYSE FANG+ Index—which tracks 10 global tech heavyweights, including Facebook, Apple and China’s Alibaba —slumped 5.6% on Tuesday, its worst one-day drop since its inception four years ago....

iOS has a lot of small changes in addition to the headline features like Dark Mode. This includes updates to Control Center. In addition to toggling WiFi and Bluetooth, you can now switch networks and connect to new devices from within the Control Center platter. Control Center has always offered toggles to connect/disconnect from WiFi and Bluetooth. Remember: access Control Center on iPad Pro and iPhone X series devices by swiping down on the right-hand side of the screen....

Update: Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell has said that the FBI’s latest filing is a “cheap shot” and notes that the tone of it “reads like an indictment.” Sewell went on to add that the FBI is “so desperate at this point that it has thrown all decorum to the wind.” Furthermore, the Apple executive said that the brief was meant on the FBI’s part to “vilify” Apple. The Department of Justice has today filed its latest response to Apple in their fight over unlocking the iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino gunmen....

Starting Wednesday, Apple customers in mainland China can order products online and pick them up for free at their local Apple Store. The service, long offered in the United States and elsewhere, is now available on Apple.com.cn. Previously, customers in mainland China could purchase products while at an Apple Store or choose one of several delivery options online depending on regional availability. In-store pickup brings to mainland China the same convenient service Apple Stores around the world have enjoyed for years....

Bloomberg speculates that India could refuse to grant Apple permission to sell used iPhones in the country citing comments from a telecommunications ministry official today. Apple had hoped that used iPhone sales would be a good way to get a foothold in a country where its market share is just 2%, and where 80% of phones cost less than $150. Its iPhone Upgrade Program in the United States gave the company a plentiful supply of used phones that it could have sold at much lower prices in India without sacrificing margin, which must have seemed like the perfect plan … The U....

If you’re an Infinix Hot S3 user and looking for the official Stock Firmware to download, you can follow this full guide below. Here you can check how to flash the firmware file on Infinix Hot S3. We have also put up the stock firmware advantages, firmware info, and requirements for your ease. Android is full of customizations and tweaks that all the users can easily perform. But users have to follow the guide and step-by-step process properly in order to do customization successfully....

Despite dramatic improvements to Apple Watch speed, some high profile apps have been actively pulled from watchOS over the last several months. Instagram is the latest major app to disappear from Apple Watch as part of today’s iPhone app update… There’s no mention of the Apple Watch app being pulled in the release notes which only mentions the typical bug fixes and improvements, but updating to version 39.0 on iPhone removes Instagram for Apple Watch when paired....

Apple’s iOS software wizard Scott Forstall saved iMessage as the last of the ten big iOS 5 features in Monday’s WWDC keynote talk. We’ve shown iMessage in action in our eleven-minute overview of iOS 5 features and the iOS 5 features page teases with some interesting capabilities promising to override costly text messages whenever possible: That pitch leaves a lot of questions unanswered. For example, do iMessages count against my text messaging plan?...

The good news is you don’t have to worry too much about these little problems individually — it’s when they all start piling up that they become an issue. Thankfully, you can fix many of these issues without having to take your computer to be repaired or even to see a technician. There are several simple ways you can resolve small hangups and other frustrations, so put together a cheat sheet as a reminder to take care of these issues often....

[slideshow] Algoriddim released its highly anticipated Vjay app for iPad [iTunes $9.99] today following up on the popular Djay app. As of this writing, every review is 5 stars. The downside is that it does not work on the original iPad. Description ☆ INTRODUCTORY SALE: 50% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME ☆ Introducing vjay – see, hear, and touch the future! vjay transforms your iPad into a cutting-edge mashup machine, directly integrated with the media libraries on your iPad....

Two recent reports attempt to provide answers to these questions. Dark Reading’s “Strategic Security Survey” highlights the fact that phishing continues to haunt the enterprise, placing ahead of malware and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as the most common cause for data breaches in 2021. In fact, more organizations experienced a data breach last year due to phishing than any other cause: 53% of organizations reported a phishing-related breach compared to malware at 41% and DDoS at 17%....