Facebook may be a little closer to creating its own virtual money for you to send around to your friends. The social network giant has reportedly set up a company in Switzerland to focus on payments and blockchain, the technology powering cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. A Facebook cyrptocurrency would be tied to the US dollar, Swiss publication …
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Got wall? Cool. Let’s turn it into a home theater. Today only, and while supplies last, the Anker-made Nebula Mars II portable projector is on sale for $330 . That’s $30 less than the last time I wrote about it and the lowest price to date. (It normally runs $500.) See it at Amazon The Mars II (sequel to the popular, but …
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Should Facebook be broken up? In recent weeks, some politicians in the US and even one of Facebook’s co-founders have expressed strong opinions that the world’s largest social network has grown too powerful, and that it should be split off into its component parts. But the EU, typically more heavy-handed than the US when it comes to regulating Silicon Valley …
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Facebook has all the photos you took at your girls’ weekend at the beach. That’s no surprise, because you posted them to your profile page. But Facebook has ways to get even more information about your getaway. The company isn’t just a social network. It’s an ad network too, and it follows you around on the internet and in real …
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Facebook has added data from surveys to better predict what pages users want at the top of their News Feed. Posts from family and friends, and news articles or videos from pages followed, will now be ranked at the very top of the page, Facebook said Thursday. The changes focus on quality of user experience over quantity of time spent …
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YouTube will amp up the content available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, with Google‘s massive video company saying its VR app will be among the launch titles for the closely watched device, which is set for release Tuesday. That’ll make YouTube one of the most widely recognizable names for people wondering what you can actually watch on an Oculus …
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Carl Mazur, a photographer in Utah, freaked out when he saw an ad for Rokinon camera lenses pop up on Facebook. That’s because it appeared 20 minutes after Mazur’s chiropractor mentioned the brand to him during a visit. Mazur had heard stories about the social network eavesdropping on conversations through the mics on smartphones in order to deliver more precisely …
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Tech giants and political leaders from around the globe came together in Paris on Wednesday to pledge their commitment to tackling the spread of terrorist content online, following the attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March. In a summit hosted jointly by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google agreed …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: After you talk about something specific, an ad related to that very topic pops up on your Facebook feed. It’s uncanny, unsettling and, like most urban legends, nearly everyone has a variant of this story. Thanks to the wealth of data the mammoth social network already has on you — your location, network …
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Facebook said Tuesday it would ban users from its Live streaming feature for a set period of time if they violate certain community guidelines. The move is in response to the Mosque massacre that occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, in which a gunman livestreamed his gunning down of 50 victims. “Starting today, people who have broken certain rules …
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