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Snap Inc. teamed up with fitness tracking application Strava on the Strava Activity Lens, an augmented reality experience that enables users of Snapchat and ...

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By connecting up your Strava and Snapchat accounts, you can now share stats and activity maps from your recent workouts.

Your most recent workout will automatically appear, or you can toggle through different activities to share. For a time, my cycling life centred around racing road and track, but that’s since broadened to include multiday two-wheeled, one-sleeping-bag adventures over whatever terrain I happen to meet. You can also share a slideshow from your camera roll by tapping ‘Memories’ to access photos from your workout. Sounds good and ready to get sharing? To push your activities from Strava to Snapchat, all you need to do is: open the Strava app, find your profile and from there just select the “Activities” tab and scroll to the activity you’d like to share. [Strava](https://www.cyclingweekly.com/tag/strava) and Snapchat account together, each time you finish a bike ride – or other activity – stats and activity maps from your session will be generated ready for you to share on Snapchat.

Calling all millennials: we can now stop taking pictures of our watch to show off our runs.

On Snapchat, you can find the Strava Lens in the app’s Lens Explorer or on Strava’s public profile. Shareable activities must be marked as visible to “everyone” or “followers-only,” and include a visible Strava map. Select the “Activities” tab and scroll to the workout you want to share.

Encrypted messaging app Signal will soon have an ephemeral "stories" feature, with video, pictures or text that disappear after 24 hours.

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The one-time tech visionary who invented Snapchat's disappearing-photos feature vanished from the public eye after a nasty legal battle with his co-founders ...

Snapchat has launched a new AR Lens integration, in partnership with fitness app Strava, which enables users to provide interactive, visual updates of their ...