Facebook will not let anyone use its data to spy on you
Facebook, the world’s largest social network and one of the companies that collect plenty of personal data from its customers, is committed to preventing third-parties …
Facebook just totally ripped off Snapchat Stories, but that’s hardly a surprise
Another day, anther Facebook feature that looks like a complete and total clone of something Snapchat has been doing for ages. This time Snapchat’s Stories …
Facebook reports journalists to the cops for reporting child porn to Facebook
The BBC has published a long-running report into Facebook and child abuse today. The report details how secret Facebook groups have been used to share …
The most-downloaded Android apps of all time are exactly what you’d expect
Google has released some data on the most-downloaded things from its app and content store, in celebration of the Play Store’s fifth birthday. Although I’d …
Facebook is slashing the Oculus Rift price by 25% as rivals pass it by
Facebook subsidiary Oculus, once the king of VR startups and a bonafide Kickstarter darling, is now cutting the price of its Rift virtual reality headset …
This Chrome extension fixes Facebook’s worst problem
Spending time on your Facebook News Feed is always dangerous. Doing so now that Facebook auto-plays videos with sound makes browsing at work about as …
Facebook copies Snapchat again with a ‘new’ WhatsApp feature
Today, WhatsApp announced that it’s adding a new feature, called Status, to its notorious app. The feature goes into beta in France and the Netherlands …
Facebook ruins News Feed using autoplaying videos with sound
Facebook is about to get louder. On Tuesday, Facebook announced a series of changes and additions that are currently rolling out to the site’s video platform. …
Facebook’s new Oculus gloves let you type in VR
You need special controllers to manage virtual reality environments, but Facebook is already working on a different kind of accessory that would give you a …
Facebook just made your weather app obsolete
In its ongoing quest to become the only service you need in your life, Facebook is giving mobile and desktop users the ability to check their …
Even without the lawsuit, the Oculus Rift appears to be collapsing
When Oculus first hit the scene back in 2012, everyone assumed that the Rift was going to be the king of the virtual reality revolution. …
How Snapchat and Facebook’s billionaires are changing rules to keep power forever
As part of the papers filed for its IPO yesterday, Snpachat’s parent company Snap revealed the ownership and power structure that the company will use …
You won’t believe this one weird trick Facebook is using to fight clickbait and spam
Like any social network, Facebook has its fair share of problems, but its historic inability to accurately manage, filter, and verify the content being shared …
Managing Facebook privacy settings is now easier than ever
Facebook lets you customize plenty of privacy-related aspects of your Facebook experience, but not everything is crystal clear, and you might ignore some important settings …
Hugo Barra lands at Facebook, where he’ll be the VP of VR
We’ve seen him shape the future of Android and Google, and then he moved to Xiaomi where he worked on transforming the Chinese phone maker …
Facebook is copying Snapchat’s best-known feature
Life imitates art, Facebook imitates Snapchat. For Zuckerberg’s website, captivating fickle millennials is a life-or-death fight, and what millennials seem to really be into right …
Facebook may have encouraged Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown to record locker room celebration
Following the Pittsburgh Steelers’ victory over the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday, All-Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown quickly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. …
Google may be forced to stop reading your Gmail for ads
The European Union is looking to take additional steps to guard the privacy of European internet users. The new initiative might limit the power of …
Once mocked, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a stroke of genius
In April of 2012, Facebook shocked the tech world when it acquired Instagram for $1 billion. At the time, the acquisition raised quite a few eyebrows, …
Twitter’s new video streaming solution is so much better than Facebook Live
As Twitter struggles to stay relevant in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by giants like Facebook and up-starts like Snapchat, Twitter has announced …
Facebook’s Safety Check feature triggered by fake news
Facebook’s Safety Check feature has been erroneously triggered in Bangkok by a wave a false social media reports about a bomb explosion that didn’t happen. …
EU goes after Facebook for misleading information during WhatsApp purchase
WhatsApp represents one of Facebook’s most important acquisitions and a very costly one. It’s also one of the most popular messaging applications out there, having …
Facebook Messenger does group video chats with up to 50 people
You wanted it, and Facebook delivered! It’s Facebook Messenger chat app now supports video chat with up to 50 people. The bad news is that …
Here’s how Facebook is going to stop the spread of fake news
After already acknowledging its rampant fake news problems and promising to come up with some sort of solution back in November, Facebook today announced its actual …
Trump’s meeting with US tech leaders might be all about ‘asserting dominance’
President-elect Donald Trump has an important meeting on his agenda for Wednesday afternoon: leaders of the most prominent tech firms in America have been summoned …
Facebook was accidentally reposting old photos and people are flipping out
Facebook has spent most of 2016’s final weeks defending itself in the heated controversy over fake news on its platform, but now it’s got another …
Oh look, Facebook is copying Snapchat again
Facebook has a long and storied history of being “inspired” by other apps and then implementing those new features only to kill them off again …
Facebook bans — then unbans — the B.S. Detector plugin that flags fake news stories
A few weeks ago we wrote about the B.S. Detector plugin. It’s a handy little tool that automatically produces a hard-to-miss pop-up tooltip whenever you’re …
Facebook is adding ‘Pac-Man,’ ‘Space Invaders,’ and other classic games to Messenger
Facebook Messenger is continuing it daring quest to be more useful than Facebook itself by adding games that you might actually want to play. Pac-Man, …
Former Facebook news writer blames Gizmodo and ‘bro-grammers’ for fake news epidemic
There has been plenty of finger-pointing in the wake of Facebook’s obvious penchant for promoting fake news stories. Now, a former Facebook news writer is …
