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Khaleej Times
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
Instagram rolls out new location sharing, reels features; security concerns raised
Instagram has launched three new major features — Repost, Instagram Map, and the Friends tab — for its users. The Repost feature will help users share others' content with your own followers and friends. The feature will give credit to the original poster. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Instagram Map The 'Instagram Map' feature is reminiscent of a similar feature on Snapchat. With this option, one can share their last active location with a chosen group of friends. The user can see their locations and content they've posted from interesting places. Also, the feature is designed with safety as a priority — parents of supervised teen accounts will be notified if their child turns on location sharing. "Share locations with friends and see what's happening around you on the Instagram map. And if you're a parent with supervision set up for your teen, you have control over whether they can share their location, and who they're sharing with," said Instagram. When the app rolled out the Map feature, it caused a wave of confusion among users who were worried that their locations would be visible to all their followers. Some users have since been shocked to discover that their location was being shared, viral posts have shown. "Mine was turned on and my home address was showing for all of my followers to see," Instagram user Lindsey Bell wrote in reply to a warning posted by "Bachelor" reality television personality Kelley Flanagan to her 300,000 TikTok followers. "Turned it off immediately once I knew but had me feeling absolutely sick about it." In a TikTok video, Flanagan called Instagram's new location sharing feature "dangerous" and gave step-by-step instructions on how to make sure it is turned off. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri fired off a post on Meta-owned Threads stressing that Instagram location sharing is off by default, meaning users need to opt in for it to be active. "Quick Friend Map clarification, your location will only be shared if you decide to share it, and if you do, it can only be shared with a limited group of people you choose," Mosseri wrote. "To start, location sharing is completely off." The feature was added as a way for friends to better connect with one another, sharing posts from "cool spots," Instagram said in a blog post. Users can be selective regarding who they share locations with, and can turn it off whenever they wish, according to Instagram. Friends tab The Friends tab within Reels helps users see what their friends have liked, commented on, or recommended via Blends. Instagram shared these updates through an official blog post, accompanied by a reel from platform chief Adam Mosseri, where he opened up about the new features in detail. All three features are available in the UAE as of this week. According to Meta, the new features are meant to make the app more community focused, and help people connect with their friends.
GSM Arena
06-08-2025
- GSM Arena
Instagram introduces Repost and location sharing
Vlad, 06 August 2025 Today Instagram has announced some new features, including Repost, which is basically Twitter's Retweet. You can repost public reels and feed posts, and your reposts will be recommended to your friends and followers in their feeds. Reposts will also be found in a separate tab on your profile so you (or someone else) can always go back and revisit them. Reposts are credited to the original poster. So when your public reels and posts are reposted by someone else, they're recommended to that person's followers, even if those people don't follow you. Thus, you have "a new opportunity to reach more people whenever you create something worth sharing", Instagram says. You can add a note to any repost by typing into the 'thought bubble' that appears on screen once you've hit the repost icon. Next up, a feature that Instagram copied from Snapchat, not Twitter - the Instagram Map. This lets you opt into sharing your last active location with the friends you pick. You can turn it off at any time, and open the map to see content your friends and favorite creators are posting from "cool spots". Instagram bills this as "a new, lightweight way to connect". Location sharing is off by default, and you can choose who you share it with (friends, Close Friends, or only selected friends). You can also choose not to share your location in specific places or with specific people. If you use location sharing, your location is updated when you open the Instagram app or when you return to it if it's been running in the background. If you're a parent with supervision set up for a teen, you can control their location sharing experience - you'll get a notification if they start sharing their location, and decide whether they have access to location sharing on the map as well as see who they're sharing their location with. Regardless of whether you're sharing your location, you can see location-tagged content on the map, including reels, posts, and stories from people you follow, as well as notes from people you mutually follow. All of this is available for 24 hours. You can find the map at the top of your DM inbox. This is currently rolling out in the US, with "more global availability soon". Finally, there's a new Friends tab in Reels, showcasing public content your friends have interacted with or recommendations from Blends you've started. Instagram says this will "help you see which reels the people you care about most are creating and engaging with". Friends started rolling out earlier this year, and is now launching globally. Source
GSM Arena
06-08-2025
- GSM Arena
Instagram introduces Repost and location sharing
Today Instagram has announced some new features, including Repost, which is basically Twitter's Retweet. You can repost public reels and feed posts, and your reposts will be recommended to your friends and followers in their feeds. Reposts will also be found in a separate tab on your profile so you (or someone else) can always go back and revisit them. Reposts are credited to the original poster. So when your public reels and posts are reposted by someone else, they're recommended to that person's followers, even if those people don't follow you. Thus, you have "a new opportunity to reach more people whenever you create something worth sharing", Instagram says. You can add a note to any repost by typing into the 'thought bubble' that appears on screen once you've hit the repost icon. Next up, a feature that Instagram copied from Snapchat, not Twitter - the Instagram Map. This lets you opt into sharing your last active location with the friends you pick. You can turn it off at any time, and open the map to see content your friends and favorite creators are posting from "cool spots". Instagram bills this as "a new, lightweight way to connect". Location sharing is off by default, and you can choose who you share it with (friends, Close Friends, or only selected friends). You can also choose not to share your location in specific places or with specific people. If you use location sharing, your location is updated when you open the Instagram app or when you return to it if it's been running in the background. If you're a parent with supervision set up for a teen, you can control their location sharing experience - you'll get a notification if they start sharing their location, and decide whether they have access to location sharing on the map as well as see who they're sharing their location with. Regardless of whether you're sharing your location, you can see location-tagged content on the map, including reels, posts, and stories from people you follow, as well as notes from people you mutually follow. All of this is available for 24 hours. You can find the map at the top of your DM inbox. This is currently rolling out in the US, with "more global availability soon". Finally, there's a new Friends tab in Reels, showcasing public content your friends have interacted with or recommendations from Blends you've started. Instagram says this will "help you see which reels the people you care about most are creating and engaging with". Friends started rolling out earlier this year, and is now launching globally. Source
Otago Daily Times
29-04-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
‘Pat on the back' for repurposed posts
Marlborough's Repost is shaving costly time turning old treated vineyard posts into good-as-new farming posts with their own machinery. Owners Greg and Dansy Coppell recycle broken posts, saving thousands of tonnes of timber from landfills. Over the five years since they started the business they have streamlined this process, in between running a 500-hectare sheep and beef farm near St Arnaud. The couple won the Agri-Innovations Awards with their portable hydraulic nail puller at the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Canterbury's Kirwee. Broken pine posts treated with a mixture of copper, chromium and arsenic (CCA) to prevent fungal rot and insect damage are costly to dump and unable to be burned. Mr Coppell said his wife entered their innovation in the awards and they were happy to get a "pat on the back" from the panel of three judges placing them ahead of 17 entries. He said they were up against many tech companies and it was good to see a simple solution being recognised. Their first machine to remove nails was built from an old silage wagon and bale feeder hooked up to a tractor. "Now we have a really sleek, efficient machine that costs very little to run and produces a post about every 14 seconds. It's completely mobile and we go to the source and that just takes a heap of logistics and cost out of double-handling stuff." Mr Coppell said the time-consuming part of re-purposing posts was removing nails, plastic clips, tek screws and staples. The mechanised operation has taken a lot of the work out of this laborious task which used to be done by hammers, grinders and crowbars. "You lose enthusiasm pretty quickly because time is money and especially when you have another 30 kilometres to go pulling these nails out so we streamlined the system. Farmers have known about this for a long time, but it's just time is the enemy." A hydraulic cramp with two jaws has a pushing and grabbing mechanism which bites and holds nails with two rams pushing posts away. Alongside the nail puller are drop saws designed to operate hydraulically after burning out commercial models, while a pointer puts new points on posts next to the mobile system. Mr Coppell said he and his father pushed around a few ideas before settling on a hydraulic design to remove as much manual labour as possible. A multi-ripsaw they also built turns half rounds into fence battens or droppers for lifestyle block owners and walkway decking. In their next venture the Coppells are looking at machinery to extract deeper nails from construction framing and other timber and transforming pallets into wood shavings for livestock. They first need to solve a supply issue as vineyards are in a downturn and there is a waiting list from sheep, beef and dairy farmers for their posts. Part of a pivot will be supplying new trellis posts in a partnership with a Marlborough company and offering a trade-in scheme for old CCA posts they can on-sell. Mr Coppell was brought up on a high country station at the back of Ward and his father was putting in old vineyard fence posts when viticulture was in its infancy in Marlborough. He became a builder for 20 years, eventually buying their St Arnaud farm to find they would need to put in about 30 kilometres of fencing. The alternative to costly new posts was recycling vineyard posts, free at the time. He would spend a day loading a truck by hand and then had to pull the nails out, cut them off or leave them in. "I realised after poking around the vineyards doing this how big a volume it all was. You pick up 1000-odd posts and there's another 90,000 there so I pitched the idea to some of the vineyards." Initially, he put this in the too hard basket after doing the numbers until realising he needed to charge vineyards a fee for their removal which was much less than landfill costs. Mr Coppell said the re-purposed posts gave farmers another option and kept new round wood operators honest. "This is one thing in my life that has got bigger picture purpose than anything else. Marlborough's landfills have probably only got half the lifespan what they plan to and are making changes there to say we are not going to accept this waste. "That's where we hopefully come in to get the product to farmers at a good price to get them productive as well."
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Uzbekistan Airways reroute European flights to avoid Russia, Belarus as 'precaution'
Uzbekistan Airways airliners have changed their routes when flying to Europe to avoid Russian and Belarusian airspace as a "precautionary measure," the Uzbek news outlet Repost reported on Jan. 28. The news comes a month after an Azerbaijani airliner crashed in Kazakhstan after flying through the Russian airspace. Baku said that Russian air defenses mistakenly opened fire against the plane, bringing it down and killing 38 of the 67 people on board. "These are simply precautionary measures and, to some extent, route optimization," the press service of Uzbekistan Airways was quoted as saying by Repost, claiming the change is not directly connected to the downing of the Azerbaijani plane. Since Jan. 20, Uzbekistan Airways airliners fly over Azerbaijan and Turkey when heading west. The Azerbaijani airliner was traveling from Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechen Republic on Dec. 25, 2024, but was forced to change course and crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau. Independent observers and Azerbaijani officials said that it was hit unintentionally by Russian air defense fire while attempting to land at Grozny's airport. The airport was allegedly under a Ukrainian drone attack, and Russia's military failed to notify the airport in time to deny all civilian passenger planes entry into its airspace to avoid suffering fire by the activated anti-air missile system. Russian authorities claimed the plane crashed due to hitting birds, but Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev directly accused Russia of downing the plane and demanded an admission of guilt and reparations, straining relations among otherwise close allies. Read also: 'Absurd versions' — Azerbaijan's president accuses Russia, condemns Putin's denial of involvement in plane crash We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
