Instagram has launched new instruments for creators, giving them extra artistic flexibility when making content material. The rollout contains new textual content animations, distinctive fonts and results for Instagram Reels and tales. The social media platform can be making it attainable so as to add textual content and stickers to pictures and carousels destined for the feed. With these adjustments, creators can categorical themselves and their concepts in their very own distinctive manner regardless of the format used to create content material.

In a weblog put up, Instagram introduced that new fonts, textual content animations and results can now be added to Instagram Reels and tales. Customers merely have to open the textual content device and faucet on the textual content button to see the brand new fonts. As soon as the choice is completed, they will additional tweak it by including an impact or animating it.

The brand new fonts can be utilized in tales and photograph carousels. Moreover, Instagram now additionally permits customers so as to add layer photographs by way of stickers on the aforementioned codecs. To attempt it, customers want to pick a picture they want to add from the machine’s media library and faucet on the textual content button. The gallery button, which seems on the top-right nook of the display screen, will be accessed to layer in extra photographs.

Customers also can change the sticker’s form from round to rectangular, and even unorthodox ones like a coronary heart or a star, by tapping on it.

Different Current Adjustments

This improvement builds upon a number of adjustments not too long ago launched on the platform, enhancing comfort and permitting customers to specific themselves higher and extra freely. This contains the enlargement of the carousel restrict to twenty pictures or movies, eliminating the necessity to break up media collections into a number of posts on Instagram.

The social media platform additionally partnered with US-based singer and actress Sabrina Carpenter for the introduction of the ‘tune on profile’ characteristic, which because the title suggests, permits customers so as to add a particular tune to their profile that greatest describes their temper or different preferences. The choice will be comprised of Instagram’s library of licensed tracks.

Apple is all set to announce a brand new iPhone household on September 9. We’re simply weeks away from the iPhone 16 launch occasion, however rumours about 2025’s flagships are already popping up on the Net. A current leak claimed that the iPhone 17 will pack extra RAM than the upcoming iPhone 16 fashions. Final yr, Apple geared up the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus with 6GB of RAM. The iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max arrived with 8GB of RAM.

iPhone 17 Tipped to Pack 12GB RAM

Weibo person Cell phone chip professional (translated from Chinese language) claimed that subsequent yr’s purported iPhone 17 fashions will function 12GB of RAM, up from the 8GB of RAM anticipated throughout upcoming iPhone 16 fashions. Growing the onboard reminiscence would assist the 2025 iPhone fashions meet the calls for of Apple Intelligence. The tipster, nonetheless, doesn’t make clear whether or not this RAM improve can be customary for all iPhone 17 variants.

The prevailing iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus have 6GB RAM whereas the Professional model pack 8GB onboard RAM. The iPhone 15 Professional fashions can run Apple Intelligence options at current.

All fashions within the iPhone 16 collection are anticipated to ship with 8GB of RAM. The iPhone SE 4, which is more likely to launch within the spring can be rumoured to pack 8GB RAM.

Again in Could analyst Jeff Pu, opined that Apple would improve the quantity of RAM in iPhone 17 Professional fashions subsequent yr. Pu claimed that iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max will get an A19 Professional chip alongside 12GB RAM, whereas common iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Slim (changing Plus variant) will stick with an A18 or A19 chip with assist for 8GB RAM.

We will count on extra rumours in regards to the iPhone 17 collection to floor on-line after the discharge of the iPhone 16 collection. Apple will announce the brand new iPhone fashions on September 9 at its occasion, referred to as “It is Glowtime”. The model is predicted to announce a brand new Apple Watch and AirPods alongside the brand new telephones.

The Open Community (TON) — the Telegram-linked blockchain community — skilled a technical concern within the early hours of Wednesday that noticed the community go offline, prompting exchanges like Bybit and Binance to halt deposits and withdrawals on the community in the course of the time. It appeared that the blockchain was present process a network-wide outage earlier than its builders disclosed the rationale for the downtime and restored the community. The TON blockchain remained offline for just a few hours, earlier than it resumed block manufacturing.

TON Community Downtime: What Precipitated the Outage

The TON blockchain stopped processing transactions for a notable time interval on Wednesday. A number of crypto and blockchain fans shared screenshots exhibiting that the blockchain was not creating new blocks. The observers additionally famous that it took as much as six hours for the TON blockchain to be up and working once more.

The explanation why this glitch occurred is the heightened buying and selling exercise across the newly launched memecoin – Canine. The Canine Coin is a part of a brand new recreation on the Mini Apps market on Telegram, named Canine. The sport lets Telegram customers play on the app and gather Canine Coin. The ecosystem of the Canine memecoin is supported on the Ton blockchain.

On August 26, the Canine Coin was listed on Binance and different crypto exchanges – after which transactions round this memecoin rapidly picked tempo. Customers who collected Canine Coin by taking part in its recreation on Telegram rushed to the market to commerce and promote.

“Because of excessive latest exercise (>20 million transactions in latest two days), rubbish assortment overloaded a lot of validators for sufficient time for them to misplaced consensus with one another,” the replace shared by the Ton blockchain claimed.

To resolve the state of affairs and restore consensus, the validators of this blockchain wanted to be restarted at about the identical time with particular flags.

As a precautionary measure, Binance and ByBit reportedly suspended deposits and withdrawals to and from the community. It’s at present unclear whether or not the TON blockchain-related companies are restored on these exchanges.

In the meantime, the TON blockchain was restored just a few hours in the past and is again on-line, whereas block manufacturing has resumed.

It was beforehand reported that TON’s native crypto token Toncoin misplaced about $2.7 billion (roughly Rs. 22,670 crore) in market worth following Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s detention in France.

Whereas the TON basis is a separate entity from Telegram, it’s the brainchild of Durov and his brother, Nikolai Durov. The community was conceived by its co-founders round 2019 however it reportedly launched on a wider scale in 2022.