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Instagram has been quick to reassure users that ‘when your best friend posts a photo of her new puppy, you won’t miss it’ Getty Our social media lives have become a battle for control, although it might not feel like it when we’re scrolling through tweets about

Messages, feared to be from Isis recruiters, sent on Sunday after video online apparently showed young people celebrating attacks Molenbeek in Brussels. Youths complain that some employers will not hire anyone with a postcode from the area. Photograph: Alamy Young men in the Molenbeek district of Brussels

Instagram’s feed is about to completely change. But there’s no reason to panic, or actually do anything at all. The site has announced that it will introduce an “algorithmic timeline” rather than sorting its posts chronologically. Instagram announced the change weeks ago, but a rumour just caught

Do you use animated GIFs as part of your social media strategy? Interested in how you to create them and make them work for you? In the early days of the Internet, animated GIFs had a bit of a bad reputation – poorly drawn, cheesy artwork whose

One of the most common methods to configure an office full of Microsoft Windows computers is with group policy. For the most part, group policies are settings pushed into a computer’s registry to configure security settings and other operational behaviors. Group policies can be pushed down from

Slack may be the darling of the group communication market right now, but there’s one thing it’s missing: voice and video calling. Microsoft is aiming to patch that up with a new integration between Skype and the popular messaging service. The imaginatively-named Skype integration for Slack creates

With its new offering “Instant Articles,” Facebook hopes to revolutionize how publishers post content to its network. On April 12th, the company will unveil the new feature on iPhone and Android Facebook apps, allowing publishers to post content (even longform) directly instead of via external links. What does all

Nintendo’s first smartphone game is somewhat disappointing for fans. PC Advisor readers had been hoping to see Super Mario, Zelda or Pokemon, but Nintendo has instead introduced Miitomo, which lets you create Mii characters like those found on the Wii and use them to interact with friends.

Windows 10 Build 10158 was delivered on Monday to the inner circle of the Windows Insider Program, giving them the opportunity to download and install the latest reasonably stable version of the operating system. The new build contains a number of bug fix updates, including a change

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) has announced it will use a $10 million (£6 million) grant from Paypal founder Elon Musk to fund 37 research projects that will aim to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is kept “beneficial”. A further $1.5 million will go towards building an