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While Facebook can be pretty annoying on showing you ads about something you just talked about, the company have decided that they enforce a temporary ban on ads of medical masks. This is to prevent exploitation by groups or individuals in the wake of COVID-19.

Huawei have been accelerating their development on the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) since losing its Android license in May 2019. But recently, it seems that the progress is going well as it has come to our attention that three popular apps will be available on Huawei's AppGallery soon.  

If you have a sharp eye, you would notice that the IGTV icon has disappeared on your Instagram main menu. First introduced about two years ago as a new platform for video content creators, but it looks like nobody really cares and this is not a mistake. In fact, it seems that only 1% of users actually tap on the IGTV button on the main user interface.

vivo, as well as TNTCO, has officially announced that you could get a 15% discount on your TNTCO purchase if you own any vivo smartphone. Only purchases made at the TNTCO store in Pandan Indah from 13 January until 29 February 2020 will be eligible for the aforementioned promo.

It seems like Facebook is trying to bring a more positive vibe to its photo-centric social media platform Instagram. Earlier, we’ve heard the platform is attempted to hide the likes of the posts, which is to promote the idea of focusing more on content rather than like counts. Now, it is trying to keep the social media platform clean by banning the influencers to promote vaping and smoking.

While most of the online tutorials do show how to add multiple photos in Instagram Stories, but this only worked on iOS devices until now. Today, Instagram is finally rolling out a new Layout feature that allows you to include multiple photos in a single story. Now both iOS and Android users will be able to add multiple photos in stories without a third-party app.

Instagram has been fighting against online bullying since last year by introducing the AI system.Today, the company has rolled out a new feature on the AI system which will be warning the users to change the caption whenever the AI detects it as a “potentially offensive” caption.

Instagram’s Community Guidelines can be overreacting to certain contents sometimes and innocent people’s accounts would get deleted in the blink of an eye. This has caused a hot debate whether the guidelines truly know what is appropriate to be posted and what is not. Many have been careful while sharing content on the platform as well. However, it was reported that 1300 porn star's accounts have been deleted despite not showing nudity.

Facebook has announced a new app which allows them to get feedback from users in a faster and more responsive way for all of its apps including Instagram and Whatsapp. Not only that is new, there is also a source saying Facebook would be introducing one of Instagram's features which is ‘Close Friends’ on Facebook. 

Dating apps like Tinder are helping you to search for ‘the one’ and many of the people are using such online dating services nowadays. Therefore, Facebook, the social media company, has also jumped into the bandwagon earlier by releasing Facebook Dating on Facebook. Now, it has a new feature that allows you to share your Instagram Stories as well.