Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced. You’ll be able to post, interact with other posts, and look at your feed, spokesperson Christine Pai tells The Verge. The web version is live for everyone, Instagram head said in a post. At first, Threads on the web was essentially a glorified way to look at somebody’s profile – you couldn’t even like or reshare a post even though the web app included the buttons to do so. (If you clicked them, Threads would show you a QR code to download the mobile app.) The new desktop web interface looks a lot like the one in the mobile app, though with some small differences; the navigation icons are on the top of the page, and to switch between the For You and Following feeds, you’ll click a button in the bottom-left corner. However, the web experience doesn’t let you do everything that you can in the mobile app. According to Pai, that means you can’t do things like edit your profile or send a post to Instagram DMs from the web.

YOUTUBE TESTS A NEW HUM-TO-SEARCH FEATURE ON ANDROID
Google is testing a new YouTube feature that lets you hum or record a song to search for it. If you’re part of the YouTube experiment for the feature, you can hum or record three or more seconds of a song so that Google can try to identify it, according to a support page. Once YouTube identifies the song, it will show you relevant content about that song. Basically, it’s a Google-y take on Shazam, which is owned by Apple. Google says it’s rolling out to “a small percentage of people across the globe who watch YouTube on Android devices.” This feature isn’t entirely new for Google, as it introduced a hum-to-search feature in the Google app and Google Assistant in 2020. The YouTube version relies on the same technology, but the publication noted that the YouTube version works faster than the Google one, which needs 10-15 seconds to figure out a song.