Instagram tries to build virtual communities for college students

Remember how Facebook used to be an online community to connect Harvard students? Well, it seems the social network wants to connect with its past and is extending this to its other social network Instagram. The Facebook-owned company is testing out a feature that will bring college students together into groups. Instagram is inviting select users to join groups for their schools. The social network is able to figure this out based on the accounts they follow, their connections, and public posts. This can be seen as Instagram’s attempt to attract the younger set of users who now refuse to use Facebook.

Those who opt in need to choose their university and graduating year from a set of predetermined choices. Once they’re in, Instagram will show them lists arranged by members’ classes to make it easier to find people from the same year. Public stories are also viewable within the list. There is also access to direct messaging members in the list. Instagram has to develop this further though to make sure creeps don’t make it in. CNBC says one of its reporters got invited to join the community for their alma mater as a current student. Instagram assures that the feature is in its early phases and tools to report inappropriate usage are in place.

Sony Xperia XZ3 leak shows design similar to Xperia XZ2 Premium

Sony went in a different design direction when it launched the Xperia XZ2 Premium. And it seems the Japanese company wants to keep that look with the rumoured Xperia XZ3. MySmartPrice leaked an image of the supposed lower-end version of the XZ2 Premium and it looks almost identical to the previous flagship except it loses one rear camera. Some of the rumoured specs include Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, (at least) 4GB of RAM, and either a 1080p or 1440p display (Sony has kept 4K panel for its Premium phones). We expect to hear more about this phone at IFA 2018 in Berlin, Germany, which is happening next week.

Source: Android Police

Here’s a look at the full world map of ‘Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’

There’s a whole lot of exploring you can do in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, if the world map is any indication. According to Powerpyx, the full world map of the upcoming Ubisoft game is said to cover 130km², which is 62 percent bigger than Assassin’s Creed Origins map was. The latter has bigger land mass but this new game makes up for that with all the water between the many islands you can explore. If seafaring isn’t your thing, there’s still mainland Greece and Macedonia to explore. The game is being developed for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It’s set to come out on October 5.  

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