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A recent study was conducted by the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) and the Young Health Movement on the effects of social media platforms on the mental health of today’s mobile users. What the research team did was poll about 1,500 consumers based in the United Kingdom, especially those between 14 years old to 24 years old.
According to a report recently published by Recode, the Republican Party, among others, is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to have robocalls be funneled directly to the user’s voicemail, even stealthily (with the smartphone device not even sending an alert to that regard).
A couple of months after Snapchat integrated a feature called Search for Stories, Instagram is now debuting a similar functionality called Story Search in order to allow mobile users to search Stories. Specifically, Instagram account holders can now search for a location or a hashtag, and then be shown a Story compilation generated from Story posts by other users that also come with that location sticker, hashtag sticker, or hashtag attached in that post’s caption.
Recently this week in the beautiful city of Brussels in Belgium, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held discussions with the European Union with regards to the subject of possibly banning big electronic devices from being taken aboard the cabin of commercial flights coming from the European continent to the US, according to a report recently published by the Associated Press. After the talks, a decision was made, and it favors not going through with the ban.
Google yet again continues to try to make Internet surfing on mobile devices a more improved experience. Recently during its annual I/O developer conference, the tech giant revealed that its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) service is now currently on more than a couple of billion mobile web pages, spanning over 900,000 domains in the world wide web.
Emoji are cool and all, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to customize them into something that resembles us just a little bit? Well, Google Allo has got you all covered. Google has just rolled out a new feature in its Allo app that basically allows users to create custom emoji out of their own selfie face.
Google recently rolled out a new update to its app and mobile web search, which now allows users in the United States to easily look for interesting activities (music concerts, film festivals, sports games, art shows, seminars, conventions, etc) nearby, either later in the day or in the days or weeks to come. Google explains that every day, it sees millions of searches being done by users regarding local events and happenings. With Google being Google, it actually did something about it.
And apparently it gets worse -- the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reported to be planning to expand its ban on electronic devices bigger than a mobile phone in all cabins of commercial planes leaving Europe. According to a report recently published by the Daily Beast, the US government agency is said to be making the formal announcement soon.
Apple just became the most valuable publicly traded company in history. According to a report recently published by the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone maker’s opening stock price Monday was at $149.03 per share, which results to a valuation of $776.7 billion, surpassing its previous best mark of $774.7 billion recorded in February a couple of years ago.
According to a report recently published by Bloomberg, record industry bigwig Jimmy Iovine apparently is planning some ambitious things for Apple Music. The talk is that possibly months or years from now, Apple’s music streaming service will turn itself into a video streaming service provider as well.
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