Snapchat Wants To Make Its Features Harder To Rip-Off

In the past we have heard how Facebook had tried and failed to acquire Snapchat. As a result, we’re seeing how Facebook is instead trying to introduce features to its various products and services that mimic some of Snapchat’s features. Instagram’s Story feature is a pretty obvious one.

Unsurprisingly Snapchat isn’t too thrilled about others copying their features, and in the future it looks like the company will be making it harder for the competition to copy them. How will this do this? According to a report from Bloomberg, Snapchat has recently acquired a Swiss company called Strong.Codes which is a company that specializes in protection against reverse engineering.

This means that should a competition try to dismantle its software to figure out how exactly Snapchat got a particular feature to work, this protection should prevent that from happening. However this isn’t to say that Facebook had hacked Snapchat’s app in order to figure out the feature, since sometimes it isn’t exactly how the feature is executed, but rather the idea behind it.

That being said, we guess we can’t really blame Snapchat for trying to protect itself against those who might be trying to copy them, and this acquisition should make things harder in the future.

HAVE A LOOK AT THE GOOGLE STREET VIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

For the first time, 48 years after the first manned mission landing on the moon, it is possible to explore the International Space Station (ISS) in 360 degree imagery from Google Maps and Earth.

This is the first Street View collection with annotations, a feature previously only available for Google Arts & Culture museums. People are invited to tour all 15 modules of the ISS and see clear and useful annotations highlighting things like the astronauts where the astronauts work out to stay physically fit, what kind of food they eat, and where they do scientific experiments.

“In the six months that I spent on the International Space Station, it was difficult to find the words or take a picture that accurately describes the feeling of being in space. Working with Google on my latest mission, I captured Street View imagery to show what the ISS looks like from the inside, and share what it’s like to look down on Earth from outer space.” said Thomas Pesquet, Astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA).

The size of the space station is very big and to capture images of it in 360 was the only solution to represent it how it was.

“It is a fantastic opportunity for everyone to fly with us and to experience the incredible feeling of being in space” Added Pesquet.

The ISS is an international Space Station, it has been the home to astronauts from around the world. It has been built by several countries and hosts Astronauts from United States, Japan, Russia and Europe. It has been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttle in 1998.

It is actually possible to see the Space Station from Earth as it is at 220 miles from our planet. 220 miles is considered in low Earth Orbit. It can be seen with naked eyes.

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