Codenamed “Eagle,” Snapchat is building a visual product search feature that delivers users to Amazon’s listings. Buried inside the code of Snapchat’s Android app is an unreleased “Visual Search” feature where you “Press and hold to identify an object, song, barcode, and more! This works by sending data to Amazon, …
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Drew Angerer/Getty Images The BBC’s “Panorama” documentary has investigated how tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat get their users hooked. The show spoke to Silicon Valley insiders who claim that social media companies deliberately engineer their platforms to be addictive. Facebook said it is working with third parties to …
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