Last week, at a company event in New York City, Instagram unveiled Direct, a private-messaging feature for its popular photo-sharing platform. The press was quick to compare it to competing social ...

You know that little icon you see when you pull down the screen to refresh a page on just about every mobile app on the market? What you might not have known is that Loren Brichter, founder of Atebits ...

Twitter announced today that they have been granted a patent for the popular pull-to-refresh gesture that you see in many mobile apps. However, as a part of the company's new Innovator's Patent ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, Twitter was officially granted U.S. Patent #8,448,084 for an ...

Like that “pull-to-refresh” feature found in many popular iOS apps, including Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, Sparrow and others? Been wondering why Apple hasn’t implemented the same thing in its own ...

Chrome on Chromebooks and Windows-2-in-1 devices is on its way to becoming more like its sibling on mobile. As lucasban has posted on Reddit, the pull-to-refresh gesture is now available on the ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...