The NFL is throwing flags for GIFs and videos — at least when it comes to teams posting footage of football games. Teams that post videos and animated GIFs of games — including highlights, reactions, and anything shot in stadiums — to social media will face hefty fines, according to memos ESPN reported on earlier …

A prominent part of modern social life is the Facebook Event. It’s the concert, fundraiser, book reading, gala or pub crawl you say you’re going to attend, but probably won’t. Now Facebook wants to make it easier for you to RSVP to stuff, and also find more stuff to RSVP to. On Friday the company launched Events by Facebook, a …

Just two months after cribbing one of Snapchat’s most popular features, Instagram has a big hit on its hands. Instagram Stories, which lets people post a string of videos and pictures that disappear after 24 hours, has 100 million daily viewers, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told BuzzFeed. Overall, the photo-sharing social network, which turns 6 years old today and is …

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., is planning an initial public offering as soon as late March, according to The Wall Street Journal. The offering would reportedly value the company at $25 billion or more. Snapchat, a mobile app that lets users post pictures and videos that disappear after a set period of time, recently renamed itself Snap Inc. The decision …

Yahoo‘s bad fortune in recent weeks could come with yet another cost. Verizon, which has agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion, is now asking for a $1 billion discount, according to a report Thursday by the New York Post. Yahoo has been hit with a mountain of bad press recently. Earlier this week, it was reported that the US …

It’s finally here: the Google Phone. Well, not quite. It’s officially called “Pixel, Phone by Google,” and the search giant unveiled it Tuesday during a much-hyped event in San Francisco. The Pixel, available with either a 5-inch or 5.5-inch display, is a grown up Google phone, meant to compete with the top brass of the smartphone world, including Samsung and …

Snap, the company formerly known as Snapchat, is peddling sunglasses with a built-in video camera. Those Spectacles are certainly a sight to behold: big, flamboyant, colorful. Whether you love them or hate them, you now apparently have someone to thank (or blame). The person behind the upcoming Spectacles is mobile veteran Steve Horowitz, according to Recode. If you’re going to …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 Let’s get this out of the way: Over the weekend, Snapchat unveiled a pair of video camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles, and the whole effort could crash and burn miserably. But if Snapchat has earned anything, it’s the benefit of the doubt. The $129 shades, which are coming …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, more than 1.1 million …

Now playing: Watch this: Inside Facebook’s new hardware lab 2:34 Deep inside Building 17 of Facebook’s corporate campus in Menlo Park, California, past a set of doors by a poster that says, “Measure twice, cut once,” there’s a machine that does a whole lot of measuring and cutting. The hulking contraption, which almost touches the ceiling of the room, sports …