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Instagram Now Has 800 Million Monthly, 500 Million Daily Active Users

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Instagram said Monday that it’s added another 100 million monthly users. That brings the photo-sharing app to 800 million monthly active users, up from 700 million in April, according to Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions at Facebook, who spoke at an Advertising Week event in New York City. Five hundred million of those are daily active users, the company said. That means that Instagram is still ahead of rival Snap in terms of users, based on Snap’s last report. Snap said in August that it had 173 million daily active users. Time spent watching video on Instagram is up more than 80 percent year over year, the company also said on Monday, and four times as many videos are being produced every day on Instagram compared with a year ago. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Here’s a full-length look at SpaceX’s spacesuit

Elon Musk dropped a carefully cropped look at the SpaceX suit for astronauts on his Instagram a couple of weeks ago, and came back with a more revealing picture today. Modeled in front of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft , it gives a better idea of what we might be able to expect. It’s far sleeker than what we’ve seen in use from NASA until now, and as Musk noted previously, it apparently actually works. The flexible, padded joint areas look like they’ll give wearers a good range of motion, while the boots are relatively lightweight. That’s not surprising since, as TechCrunch notes, these are for use while inside the Dragon capsule or transferring to other vehicles where the environment is pressurized, not a long walk in the cold vacuum of space. There’s no word on when we’ll get our next pre-Mars trip fashion show, so enjoy this pic for now. Astronaut spacesuit next to Crew Dragon A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Sep 8, 2017 at 1:04pm PDT Source: Elon Musk (Instagram)

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How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication

Two-factor authentication is generally seen as the safest bet for protecting your Gmail account. But a harrowing tale from indie developer Grant Blakeman , whose Instagram was hacked through Gmail, reveals how not even two-factor authentication can beat every security threat. Read more…

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This is why Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion: because its throughput of shared photographs i

This is why Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion : because its throughput of shared photographs is astronomical, and rising at an insane rate. (See also, the purchase of Instagram and the crazy offer for Snapchat .) [ KPCB ] Read more…

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Thorium fueled engine

Thorium Concept Car – Image Courtesy www.greenpacks.com Maggie has shared a couple ( here , here ) articles on Thorium as a super-fuel. This sounds like a fantastic implementation! Via IndustryTap : Laser Power Systems (LPS) from Connecticut, USA, is developing a new method of automotive propulsion with one of the most dense materials known in nature: thorium. Because thorium is so dense it has the potential to produce tremendous amounts of heat. The company has been experimenting with small bits of thorium, creating a laser that heats water, produces steam and powers a mini turbine. Current models of the engine weigh 500 pounds, easily fitting into the engine area of a conventionally-designed vehicle. According to CEO Charles Stevens, just one gram of the substance yields more energy than 7,396 gallons (28,000 L) of gasoline and 8 grams would power the typical car for a century.        

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Facebook announces Video on Instagram to take on Vine

With recent moves to add hashtag support, verified Pages , comments with inline photo embeds and more, it appears that Facebook is ready to take on competing social networks. It should come as no surprise to us, then, that it’s putting its acquisition of Instagram to good use by introducing a service — aptly called Video on Instagram –that rivals Vine , a similar service now owned by Twitter. Instagram’s version will be accessed by an icon on the bottom right corner of the app, and you’ll be able to record up to 15 seconds of video, using your choice of 13 new filters exclusively for the service. Contrary to its major competitor, this particular service (which will be available on iOS and Android versions from day one, and can be viewed on the web as well) won’t loop the video on an endless basis — rather, you’ll see it pop up in your feed and the video will run just once. In addition to filters, Instagram has introduced a stabilization feature called Cinema. Instagram’s blog post and video showing the new service can be found after the break, and the iOS version is already live on the App Store . Sadly, Instagram had no news about when we can expect to see the app on Windows Phone, but the team has been “talking with [Microsoft] and learning.” And folks, please promise you won’t go crazy on the cat videos. Update: Both iOS and Android apps are now available in their respective stores. Gallery: Facebook Instagram Video screenshots Filed under: Cellphones , Wireless , Mobile , Facebook Comments

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Instagram tops 100 million active users per month: what policy uproar?

Instagram started reporting its active user base in what many saw as an attempt to quell talk of an exodus following its terms of service debacle . It has a better reason to post hard numbers today, however: there’s now a neat, tidy 100 million active Instagram users every month. The milestone suggests that another 10 million mobile photographers got hooked on square-shaped photography in about five weeks, and it implies that the Facebook-owned company isn’t about to slow down just yet. Not that everyone is in a position to join the party , mind you. Filed under: Cellphones , Mobile , Facebook Comments Source: Instagram

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