Facebook will stop the practice of using phone numbers meant for two-factor authentication to suggest friends you may know. The move is part of the company’s efforts to clean up its privacy practices. Reuters reported the change on Thursday, which Facebook confirmed. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Facebook was using two-factor authentication data like phone numbers and email …

Hulu suffereding an outage late Thursday afternoon, with video playback going down. While the streaming platform’s app and website were loading and allowing you to browse and select a movie or TV show to watch, the video wouldn’t then play. “We’re having trouble playing this,” an error message said. “Rest assured, we’re working on it.” Down Detector reported more than …

Verizon turned on 5G in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday — its fourth new 5G city in four days and its 22nd altogether. Memphis’ rollout follows the same in Los Angeles on Monday, Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, and Hoboken, New Jersey, on Wednesday.  Verizon’s 5G network is already live in Dallas, Omaha, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Washington, DC, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Providence, Boston, Houston …

Several groups promoting fake cancer treatments have been banned from Facebook. Two of the groups that have now been shut out had around 33,000 members, according to BuzzFeed News Tuesday, and were removed from the social media site under Facebook’s rules about violent and criminal behavior.  The groups had promoted the use of black salve to fight skin cancer and …

The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that will prevent the government from using funds to help carriers buy Huawei’s telecommunications equipment. Other equipment considered to be a threat to national security is also banned under the draft Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, as reported earlier Monday by The Hill.  The move is “critical” to protect …

Google’s Rich Communications Service (RCS) text messaging is arriving Monday, according to a Thursday tweet from Sanaz Ahari, director of product management for Google’s communications services. The texting update will finally bring iMessage-like features to Android users. “Hi everyone! RCS is now available to all users in US as of Monday,” the tweet, spotted earlier by Pocket Lint, read. “Make …

The personal banking information for thousands of Facebook employees was stolen last month, Bloomberg reported earlier Friday. The data breach reportedly occurred when someone stole multiple unencrypted physical hard drives from a Facebook payroll staffer’s car. Info on the hard drives included names, bank account numbers, the last four Social Security Number digits, salaries, bonus amounts and equity details, the report said. …

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has suggested a robocall telemarketer be fined almost $10 million, after an investigation found he spoofed a competitor’s phone number to spread misinformation about a candidate during California’s 2018 primary election. The $9,997,750 fine could be imposed on Kenneth Moser and his company Marketing Support Systems, with the FCC saying they made 47,610 spoofed …

Waze has added snow warnings to its mapping app, where users can see real-time snow conditions, unplowed roads and ice warnings. The update was added Tuesday, as reported earlier by 9to5Google, and comes just in time for the winter break.  The snow conditions feature was developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation, according to 9to5Google. VDOT tweeted the …

Magic Leap reportedly sold just 6,000 virtual reality headsets in the six months after launching the product. This was far behind CEO Rony Abovitz’s goal of selling 100,000 Magic Leap One devices in that period, The Verge reported Friday, citing The Information — and the chief executive originally planned to sell 1 million in the first year. The Google-funded AR …