The Tribune

• FACEBOOK is adding an “instant video” feature to text messages within its Messenger app. This means users can send each other videos while they are texting in the app, in case words are not quite enough.

This is different from video calls, which have been available in Messenger since 2015. The latest feature is for those times when you don’t necessarily want to make a full-fledged video call, but find that a photo or text won’t do. To send instant video, both you and the recipient have to have Messenger open. Tap on the video icon to start sharing real-time video.

• LENOVO has unveiled a twist on the laptop: its new 10 inch Yoga Book won’t have a physical keyboard.

The Yoga Book retains the clamshell design of the laptop, but puts a second touch screen where the keyboard normally goes. People can type on a touch-screen keyboard there, or just write or draw on that second screen with an included stylus. You can even use a regular pen or pencil, though you’d want to put a sheet of paper over the screen to avoid damage.

Although Lenovo calls Yoga Book a tablet, the keyboard part isn’t detachable, making the device a laptop. The keyboard, though, can fold all the way to the back to make the device feel more like a tablet.

• MTV says it will consider airing its Video Music Awards (VMA) live across the United States in future, a reflection of how the annual celebration of pop culture is increasingly being experienced online instead of on television. This year’s show, featuring a Beyonce mini-concert, was watched by 6.5 million people on one of the 11 Viacom networks that aired it. Last year the audience was 9.8 million.

The network said that there were 149 million streams of VMA content online over two days, a combination of live streaming through MTV’s website and aggressive packaging of video clips on other social media venues. The majority of streams (86 million) came on Monday, after people heard or read about the show and wanted to check out clips. The comparable number of streams for 2015 was 30.7 million, MTV said.

• PARIS is hosting its first Drone Festival on Sunday, including an international race along the Champs-Elysees.

Drones of varying shapes and sizes will be zipping along the avenue, lined with trees and luxury stores, in a circuit that stops just shy of the Arc de Triomphe.

While drones are increasingly used by French security services, civilians are forbidden from flying them over Paris without special permission.

Paris City Hall authorised them for Sunday’s event, aimed at introducing the public to France’s civilian drone industry.

• FACEBOOK’S changes to its “Trending Topics” section are being questioned after it featured a false report about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

The story posted falsely claimed Kelly had been fired by Fox because she secretly supported Democrat Hillary Clinton. Another topic trending was #McChicken, which took users to stories about a video of a man using the McDonald’s sandwich in a sex act. Facebook announced Friday that an algorithm would select trending topics in place of humans but human editors would still screen them.