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8 Gemini AI Prompts That Turn Ordinary Photos Into Professional Portraits

These eight Google Gemini AI prompts transform ordinary photos into polished portraits for LinkedIn, personal branding, family photos, and more.

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Meta Tests Paid Instagram Subscription in Mexico, Japan, and the Philippines

Meta is testing Instagram Plus, a paid tier for regular users that adds Story features focused on privacy, reach, and in-app audience control.

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‘Serve, smile, procreate’: Yesteryear author Caro Claire Burke on the rise of the tradwife

As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers

Gingham dresses, linen aprons; toddlers smiling toothily out from their perch on a perfectly cocked hip. And the mothers holding these babies? They’re beautiful, obviously. They speak in a whisper. Their skin tone is varied in the exact range and spectrum of honey.

Tradwife. It’s a frilly word, the kind that holds a gun to your head and demands you say it in sing-song. The media coverage of the phenomenon has been as breathless and decidedly feminised as the term itself. I have yet to find an article on the topic that was not written by a woman, which feels ironic, given that the term – as well as the vision therein – was originally coined and circulated by men, born out of the dank, murky caves of online “incel” forums, where anonymous usernames set forth the deeply unoriginal vision of a wife who would do everything the real women in their lives refused to do: manage the house, give birth to children, have sex on command, and most importantly, ask nothing in return.

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A Jury Just Blamed Meta and YouTube for Social Media Addiction

A jury finds Meta and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction case, signaling major legal risks for Big Tech and platform design.

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Tencent Brings OpenClaw AI Agents to 1B WeChat Users

Tencent integrates OpenClaw AI agents into WeChat, bringing autonomous assistants to 1 billion users and raising new security and governance concerns.

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Meta Offers Guaranteed Pay to Lure TikTok, YouTube Creators to Facebook

Meta launches Creator Fast Track, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach to جذب top TikTok and YouTube creators back to Facebook.

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Instagram Users Urged to Save Encrypted DMs Before Feature Disappears

Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages.

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Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK

Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok

An official “BookTok” chart is set to launch later this year in the UK, offering a monthly rundown of the the most popular titles on social media platform TikTok.

The ranking will combine verified retail sales data with social media engagement to track which books are resonating most strongly with readers online.

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Meta Buys AI Social Network Moltbook as Superintelligence Labs Expands

Meta is acquiring Moltbook, the AI-agent social network, as it ramps up 2026 spending on Llama, smart glasses, and AI infrastructure.

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