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We may not have the physical fight Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk childishly threatened, but the Meta boss has launched a big hit on his Twitter rival with new social media platform Threads. Should you join? We weigh up the good and the bad so far.

After launching in July the first Photobox Instagram Photography competition rapidly went viral. Quickly amassing over 180,000 entries this competition became the world’s largest social media photography competition and, in entirely unsurprising news, a cute picture of a poodle took the top award.

​One of the problems with depression is the fact that detecting its onset can be difficult. A new computer program could help, however – it can detect depression in peoples' Instagram photos, even before the condition is diagnosed.

Most Instagram users probably check their feed with a smartphone or similar device. New York-based studio Breakfast, however, has created a machine that displays Instagram images and basic animations using thousands of spools of thread.

In long-awaited news for Instagram devotees, the Polaroid Socialmatic is now available for preorder. The camera has the ability to capture and print photos much like an original Polaroid, but is equipped with Wi-Fi to enable sharing over the internet and social media sites.

Polaroid is aiming to release its Socialmatic camera by the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015. Gizmag stopped by the company's booth at Photokina 2014 for a closer look.

Kidpost automatically scans your Instagram and Facebook feeds for your kid-related images, then compiles and sends them out in a daily email to a subscription list of your own making.

What could possibly go wrong? Adidas is preparing to release a smartphone app that takes your favourite photos and maps them onto a pair of sneakers, which you can then order. The example shoes actually look pretty sweet, but lord knows what Joe Public will want on his kicks.

The Polaroid-branded Socialmatic Instagram camera is scheduled to hit store shelves next year.

Instagram raised a stink with its new terms; does its backpedalling solve the problem?

Projecteo is a tiny projector which uses 35 mm slide film to set your Instagram photos free from their digital confines and project them onto any surface

Instacube is an Android-powered digital photo frame to which Instagram users can wirelessly push their photo stream over Wi-Fi.