Neowin News Feed for: Filters

WhatsApp video calls get new filters and backgrounds for all users soon

Paul Hill — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:38:01 +0000

WhatsApp is set to roll out new filters and backgrounds for video calls, allowing users to personalize their conversations with 10 options for each. Read more...

WhatsApp for iOS spotted testing AR effects and filters for video calls

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:24:01 +0000

The latest WhatsApp beta for iOS reveals that the messaging platform is testing a new feature that allows users to add effects and filters to their video calls. Read more...

This awesome change will help you get to your WhatsApp messages quicker

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:56:02 +0000

WhatsApp has a cool new feature which will help you save time when trying to respond to your friends and family. In the coming weeks, look out for a three-button tab bar at the top of your chats. Read more...

TikTok launches 'Effect House' that allows creators to make their own AR effects

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:16:02 +0000

TikTok has launched its Effect House to open beta that gives creators the tools and resources they need to create their own augmented reality effects and share them with other TikTok users as well. Read more...

Facebook is introducing new content sensitivity controls in Instagram

Usama Jawad — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:44:02 +0000

Facebook has announced new content sensitivity controls in Instagram, with configurations allowing you to better moderate what kind of content you want to see in the Explore tab of the platform. Read more...

Instagram's new keyword-based tool will filter out offensive DMs

Usman Khan Lodhi — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:50:01 +0000

Instagram has announced new tools to effectively stop harassment on its platform, including a keyword-based tool to filter out offensive direct messages and a preemptive blocking option. Read more...

SuperFan Studio is a new no-code service to create your own AR filters

Abhishek Baxi — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:26:01 +0000

Superfan Studio is a no-code, browser-based tool to create AR experiences. Superfan Studio aims to be a one-stop creation, distribution, and amplification platform for augmented reality. Read more...

Google Play Store search filter expanding to let you filter top and new apps

Rajesh Pandey — Tue, 12 May 2020 04:48:01 +0000

Google is improving the filters option on the Play Store by allowing one to further refine the search results based on ratings, Editor's Choice, and new apps. This is a server-side change. Read more...

Microsoft Store adds filters for price and rating for Xbox One users

John Keefer — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:16:01 +0000

Searching for things in the Microsoft Store can be a bit cumbersome at times. Luckily, Xbox Insiders had been testing new sorting options over the last few weeks, and the changes have just rolled out. Read more...

Facebook Messenger brings filters and reactions to its video chat with latest update

Ehtisham Ul Haq Shams — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:44:01 +0000

Facebook has just released a filter-focused update to its Messenger app, which adds the Snapchat-like filters and reactions to its video chat along with a couple of other improvements. Read more...

MPs considering blocking adult sites which don't add age verification

Paul Hill — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 02:10:01 +0000

British MPs are considering new amendments to the Digital Economy Bill 2016-17 which could see adult sites that don't implement age verification being blocked in the country. Read more...

Sky to switch on porn filter, by default, for new and existing users

Paul Hill — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:46:01 +0000

Sky has announced that its Broadband Shield will be enabled by default for new and existing users. It follows a trial which showed, when enabled by default, people were more likely to use it. Read more...

Overwhelming majority of UK broadband users opting out of porn filters

Andy Weir — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:45:10 +0000

UK broadband users are rejecting the ISP-level porn filters introduced at the behest of the government, with 95% of BT Broadband customers, and 92% of those on Sky Broadband, opting out of using them. Read more...

Get around the UK's national 'porn filters' with a simple Chrome extension

Andy Weir — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:09:17 +0000

Default filters for adult content introduced by UK ISPs are blocking innocuous sites while failing to block hardcore porn - but the 'Go Away Cameron' Chrome extension offers a complete workaround. Read more...

UK web traffic for porn higher than for all social networks combined

Andy Weir — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:01:16 +0000

As the UK prepares for porn to be blocked by default on all ISPs, user data shows that 8.5% of all UK web activity is based around adult content - more than the US, but not as much as Germany. Read more...

Twitter brings Instagram-like filters to iOS/Android app today

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:21:15 +0000

Twitter has announced that photo filters are now available in their apps for iOS and Android, allowing people to "enhance" their photos in an Instagram-like fashion from within the app Read more...

Instagram-style photo filters coming to Twitter

Andy Weir — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:00:07 +0000

As Instagram grows at a phenomenal rate, it seems that Twitter wants a piece of that action, as plans to introduce Instagram-style photo filters and other features into its mobile apps are revealed. Read more...

Australia's Conroy Announces Mandatory Internet Filters

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:44:26 +0000

Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites. Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service... Read more...

Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:45:08 +0000

Advanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk... Read more...

Microsoft Nets New Phishing Filters for IE

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:55:42 +0000

Microsoft is using data-mining techniques from a third party in its Internet browsers to guard against "phishing" attacks, where dubious Web sites try to harvest personal information from unknowing victims. Digital Resolve, of Norcross, Georgia,... Read more...

Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:25:24 +0000

Thanks Andareed for submitting this in Back page News on our forums. Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such... Read more...

RadLight Ogg Media DirectShow filters 1.0.0.1

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:30:34 +0000

RadLight Ogg Media DirectShow filter suite enables playback of Ogg and OGM files in any DirectShow based player (tested with Windows Media Player and, of course RadLight 4). It also comes with its... Read more...

Beware free spam filters

Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:08:44 +0000

Don't bother deploying free spam filtering software you find on the Internet -- it is what spam writers use to carry out quality control on their efforts, said one computer security specialist. ... Read more...

Microsoft builds spam filters into Exchange

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:12:30 +0000

According to InfoWorld, "Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address on Sunday at the annual Comdex 2003 trade show in Las Vegas to announce plans to make the... Read more...

E-mail filters not fooled by signed spam

Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:09:11 +0000

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The trick was... Read more...