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Instagram’s live stories are coming to the Explore tab. Starting today, you’ll be able to browse stories by their location or their hashtag, as long as they were shared from a public account. It’s a feature that will show off the massive amount of photos and videos being shared around the world every day on Instagram. And, as with most story-related features, it’s an idea Snapchat had first. Starting today, you’ll see new “rings” at the top of the Explore feed showing you stories taking place near your physical location — a city, for example. Tap into it and you’ll see public stories that were tagged with that location (“San Francisco”). If you want to hide an individual post from search, go to the list of story viewers and tap ‘X’ on the story. Instagram’s twist on the search is to enable it for hashtags as well as locations. Search #ootd to browse other peoples outfits of the day, for example, or #fromwhereirun to marvel at the self-absorption of joggers. Hashtag search will b...

At the beginning of this month some people started seeing the ability to create multiple-image posts on Instagram's beta app for Android. After a few weeks of testing, this feature has become official today. From this point on you're able to add up to 10 photos and videos to each of your Instagram posts - no longer is one post confined to one image or video. The batch posting is easy to use too - when uploading you see a new icon that, when tapped, will let you select multiple photos and videos. Once you've decided which of those you want to share, you can add a filter to all at the same time, or go one by one. You can reorder the entries by tapping and holding each one. These posts have a single caption, they're square only for now, and they will show up on your profile grid with a little icon on the first photo or video, which indicates that there's more to see. In the feed, blue dots at the bottom of such posts will indicate that your followers can swipe l...