Karissa was Mashable's Senior Tech Reporter, and is based in San Francisco. She covers social media platforms, Silicon Valley, and the many ways technology is changing our lives. Her work has also ...

Snapchat is exploring how facial recognition technology could be used to protect the privacy of its users. A new patent from the smartphone messaging company, issued by the United States Patent and ...

Laura Clery is taking her face-morphing routine to Snapchat with a new short-form sketch series for Comedy Central. The internet comedian — who has more than 3.2 million Facebook followers and 1.3 ...

Snapchat can already recognize faces well enough to apply puppy dog ears and floral crowns, so why not use the technology to blur the background for a better selfie? Apparently, Snapchat is thinking ...

If you spent hours during Easter weekend trying to complete the Snapchat Egg Hunt, you're in for a real treat. The beloved social media app has just introduced Snappables, which are cool new virtual ...

I told myself I wasn't going to do this. I wasn't going to get sucked into the cliche excited tech coverage of this amalgamation of social media and physical technology, but here we go. Snapchat, soon ...

Snapchat will soon be able to automatically create Bitmoji using just a picture of your face — at least, that’s what a recently made public patent application seems to indicate. Reported first by ...

Snap has patented a way to monitor precisely how people are feeling at events like gigs or speeches. The technology would use facial recognition on Snapchat selfies, as well as take cues from messages ...

Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch, motion and facial expressions to compete for high ...

Last night, Blac Chyna freaked out on Snapchat, and we don’t blame her. Her face was covered in blotchy patches of red dryness after getting a facial. “This facial that I did, it broke me out real bad ...

A law passed eight years ago in Illinois is causing legal problems for some of the largest social-media companies in the U.S. In May, two men filed a lawsuit against Snapchat under a state law passed ...