Facebook has a great costume idea for Halloween, as it makes moves to catch up with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. In 2013, the social media giant failed to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. On Monday, a report said the company earlier this year tried to buy Snow, a similar social network in Asia, but couldn’t …

Apple’s new Touch Bar took over social media on Friday morning. The MacBook Pro and Apple’s event that introduced it are trending across Facebook and Twitter, as users argue over whether the new Touch Bar feature should have replaced the function key. Twitter users are also getting into the Halloween spirit — and ruminating on what to do if they’ll …

At least it lasted longer than six seconds. The popular microvideo platform that Twitter scooped up in 2012 is headed for an abrupt ending, as Vine announced in a blog post Thursday morning that it would be shutting down its app. Vine was a widely used app where videos looped and were limited to 6-second clips, pioneering a short-form video …

Bye-bye, function keys, hello Touch Bar! Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro on Thursday, with a built-in touch strip at the top of the keyboard where the F-Keys, media controls and escape button used to be. It’s the most noticeable change to tech giant’s laptops in recent years. We discuss if it’ll set the standard for future laptops. We also …

People on social media are furious at the Philadelphia 76ers — and not because they lost a game. The outrage stems from a decision apparently to pull the national anthem singer because of the shirt she wanted to wear. The Chicago Cubs, meanwhile, are basking in love on social media after their win against the Cleveland Indians that ties the …

Bye-bye, function keys, hello Touch Bar! Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro on Thursday, with a built-in touch strip at the top of the keyboard where the F-Keys, media controls and escape button used to be. It’s the most noticeable change to tech giant’s laptops in recent years. We discuss if it’ll set the standard for future laptops. We also …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft Surface Studio and Windows 10 want to bring… 2:26 These are more than surface level updates. As Microsoft pushed new 3D software and the Surface Studio at its New York Windows event on Wednesday, the PC giant squeezed in a small, but important update for its Surface Book. The new Surface Book i7 offers 16 …

Self-driving vehicles are pretty exciting on social media, especially when they’re delivering a truckload of beer. Facebook and Twitter were buzzed about new technology on Wednesday morning, after an autonomous truck traveled more than 100 miles in Colorado with brews on board. Can you imagine if it were full of pumpkin-spiced lattes? Social Cues is your road map for what’s …

Microsoft is painting in a new dimension. The tech giant showed off an update to Microsoft Paint on at Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in New York. The program jumped from two- to three dimensional drawings and will be able import scans from cameras and Minecraft. It’ll also let you draw and make freeform 3D objects. The “Doodle Sketch” tool instantly …

Social media is wringing its hands over another potential spying scandal hitting AT&T. This comes almost a decade after the carrier first faced lawsuits over a National Security Agency spy program — and amid a general atmosphere today of privacy worries that wasn’t helped by this month’s accusations that Yahoo had been spying on its users as well. Social Cues …