Security and privacy have always been hot topics on social media, with much discussion taking place over issues such as image ownership, privacy settings, and how to not invite 1.2 million partygoers to your 15-year-old daughter’s birthday party. As a result of this ongoing discussion in the news, most of us know better than to […]
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Christmas is a time of giving, and this year the team at SALT decided they would like to give back a little something to their local community. Our chosen charity is Holbeck Elderly Aid, who do a wonderful job of supporting the older population of Holbeck to live independently through organised activities, transport, befriending, home assessments, and […]
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Celebrities, brands and the general public alike are prone to errors on social media which can easily go viral. As Jon Ronson’s book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed highlights, there is always a hate mob online ready to take down anyone who dares to make a mistake in the public eye – whether it be […]
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The American public have voted, and Donald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election. One of the many questions on the world’s lips right now is, what happens to the @POTUS Twitter account? After all, it has a healthy 11.4m followers, and has been fairly involved in making Obama’s views heard online during the election campaigns. President […]
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Since May this year, Twitter has been busy working on ways to help people get more out of its 140-character limit. This has so far resulted in images, GIFs, and links no longer being counted towards the limit, which has brought much joy to the Twitter community. It seems there is now further delight for […]
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A collective of engineers at the University of Washington’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab have discovered a way to pass a four-digit code through human skin using everyday technology, lending itself to exciting concepts such as unlocking a door or a safe just by touching it. Sure, this could be achieved with a fingerprint sensor […]
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A recent Instagram update lets you see the best videos without disrupting your main feed. Its overhaul of the Explore page sees a string of new video channels with, most importantly, a personalised ‘Videos You Might Like’ feed which draws across the network. There are also various themed, hand-created channels, such as feature spotlights on specific […]
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It has been reported that behavioural psychologist Sean Young sees a future where a program is ‘trained’ to think like a psychologist in order to screen the social media accounts of individuals, assessing them for text or image patterns and combinations which could signify depression or other mental health illness. The theory is that whilst […]
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Social media has a bad reputation; it’s often perceived as a group of platforms which cause and encourage extramarital affairs, stalking, party crashing, and generally bad events to occur. This opinion is especially popular amongst those who don’t use social media. However, this is not true. Social sites and apps do not cause these events; […]
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‘That’ time of year is slowly creeping up on us again (I know, I know – I’m still recovering from the last one too!) So, with Christmas comes a nation of shoppers looking for gifts for loved ones. Not to mention people desperate to spend their Christmas money in the post-Christmas sales. If you own […]
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Bradley Horowitz stated last week: We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google… other than using Google+ itself. With Google+ being broken down into just 3 components (Hangouts, Photos & Streams), and the rest of it’s features being binned, it really feels like this is the […]
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For those of you who don’t already know, Uber started life in 2009 in San Francisco, and what started as a top-end luxury car service in one state in America has since become an international taxi lift app phenomenon. Uber is regarded by many in the UK to be the best thing since sliced bread, […]
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