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Snapchat gets ‘Quick Tap to Snap’ to skip lockscreen on Pixel 6 and other recent models [U]

Snapchat neglected Android for years up until just recently, but with the debut of the Pixel 6 series, the social media app is optimizing for one of the best values in Android. Snapchat will be, at least at launch, the only third-party app that can use the wide-angle selfie camera on Pixel 6 and will add other exclusive features, too.

This post has been updated with details on the rollout for “Quick Tap to Snap.”

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Google Cloud Platform outage brings down Spotify, Snapchat, and more [Update: Back]

Update: Third-party services started to come back online at 12:58PM, with Google reporting that all issues have been resolved as of 1:05PM.

Update 7/18: Google has issued a technical explanation for the issue that boils down to a bug in a new feature that wasn’t caught during testing.

The Google Cloud Platform is down this afternoon with the official status page noting outages for a handful of services. As a result, Spotify, Snapchat, and other companies that use Google as a backend are currently unavailable.


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Snapchat Spectacles 2 launch today with photos, water resistance & more [Video]

Snap’s first attempt at Spectacles were rather an, uh, spectacular failure. The company lost $40M after ending up with hundreds of thousands of unsold units.

An FCC filing earlier this month showed that the company wasn’t giving up, however, with the company’s CEO confirming yesterday that it would be releasing a new model this week. That model has launched today with a number of enhancements …


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