Enlarge ImageFacebook hopes its M artificial intelligence technology will attract people to use Messenger even more. Facebook The next time you’re looking for a good burger, why not just ask Facebook? That’s the message behind a new feature for the world’s largest social network that’s being built into its text-like messaging service, Facebook Messenger. The …

Facebook is reworking one of its oldest features. Getty Images When politicians or celebrities want to have their minds heard these days, they don’t send out a press release or always call up a reporter. They post on social-networking sites and blogs. To help them out, Facebook is testing a new look for its “notes” feature, a service it began …

A week after Carlos Flores started wearing his new Pebble smartwatch, his friends called him out for being rude. Flores’ offense? Continually lifting his arm, craning his neck and reading a stream of messages after his watch buzzed and lit up. “If you need to be somewhere else, why don’t you leave?” he remembers a friend asking pointedly. It wasn’t …

Enlarge ImageFacebook is making it easier for its users to communicate with businesses and celebrities. Facebook Some of Stephanie St. James’ clients send her messages at 2 a.m., and she’s fine with it. As the head of Amazing Fairytale Parties, an Oregon-based business that puts on theme parties with organizers dressed up as characters who sing and play games, she’s …

Can Twitter ever be more than it is? That’s the ultimate question facing the 9-year-old social-networking company as it seeks a new chief executive who can lead it to a rosier future. To reach that goal, Twitter — like every other company in the tech industry — needs to show constant, meaningful growth. In Twitter’s case, that growth needs to …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with his arm around his wife, Priscilla Chan. The two are expecting their first child. Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Mark Zuckerberg got a thumbs-up recently from a special girl: his daughter-to-be. The CEO of the world’s largest social network said Friday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting their first child, a girl. “We’ve already been …

Video’s becoming a key draw for people on Facebook. Facebook Lights, action, Facebook! The world’s largest social network isn’t just a place where people chat with friends, share news stories and look at baby photos. It’s increasingly becoming a center for video — be it uploads of friends dunking buckets of ice on their heads or advertisements from McDonald’s reenacting …

Voat.co’s mascot is a goat. Because, the Internet. Voat With all the drama surrounding Reddit, from debates over free speech to its messy game of musical chairs among executives, it’s understandable some users might want to leave. Now they’ve found a place to go. It’s called Voat (rhymes with goat), and it says it’s fixed all those things people don’t …

For years, Reddit has been a free-wheeling, nearly anything-goes collection of Internet forums run primarily by volunteers and users. What is Reddit? That’s the $50 million question the company and the 164 million people who visit the site each month are grappling with. The company’s co-founder and new CEO, Steve Huffman, on Thursday laid out a set of new policies …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is preparing to release a new version of its OS X computer software Jason Cipriani/CNET The next big change for Apple’s computer software is to include even more features from the iPhone. That’s the message from the Cupertino, Calif.-based company which announced …