Instagram is the latest service to make efforts toward fighting online abuse, rolling out text filters to dismiss trolls. The question is, will it succeed? These filters are pretty straightforward and ...

Apple's new spam text filtering feature could end up being a multimillion-dollar headache for political campaigns. iOS 26 includes a new feature that allows users to filter text messages from ...

Microsoft is introducing new text filtering options on Xbox One consoles, giving players more control over what kinds of messages they receive. The company says this is both to improve parental ...

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The average person receives an awful lot of spam and scams by phone, text, and email. Apple and ISPs offer anti-spam tools for email (with varying degrees of effectiveness), and cell carriers and ...

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An update to Google-owned photo editor Snapseed today adds new filters that allow users to overlay text on images in a variety of styles. Snapseed 2.8 includes a variety of fonts, colors, and other ...

What’s better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That’s Facebook Messenger’s strategy to steal the visual communication crown from Snapchat, thanks to its new camera ...

The bash shell has a bunch of commands for processing text—things like sort (which can sort lines in a text file), tr (which you can use to convert uppercase to lowercase, or to delete entire classes ...