Celebrating a friend’s birthday on Facebook is about to get more interactive than just posting a message on their wall. The social network said Thursday that it’s introducing a new way to celebrate birthdays in Stories, a feature that lets users post photos and videos that vanish in 24 hours. Now you can add digital …
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Instagram is working on new guidelines for account removals. The photo sharing site plans to roll out a new policy in which accounts are taken down after a certain number of violations in a particular time frame. The number of violations and how much time is allotted weren’t disclosed because the company doesn’t want people taking advantage of the guidelines. …
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Facebook wants to help filmmakers build a platform and users find quality content. To do so, the social media site is changing up how it ranks videos. In a blog post published on Monday, Facebook Product Management Director David Miller said going forward the social network will prioritize original content. “We want to help media companies — whether large, small, global, …
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You’ve seen this cinematic vision of the future: holograms in your conference room, consulting on glowing, floating 3D plans. Windows popping up in the air with real faces joining in videoconference, like portals to other worlds. Avengers: Endgame had a few scenes peppered with visions like these. The Microsoft HoloLens 2 is getting something that’s the closest thing I’ve seen …
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For the past couple years, tech companies like Apple, Google and even Facebook have been doing something seemingly against their interests: Encouraging us to stop using them. On Monday, Microsoft joined those companies by encouraging business people to be more mindful of their time too. The new features, built into the company’s Office 365 business productivity service for Windows PCs, Macs …
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Instagram is getting a slew of new features, including a camera tool called Create Mode, enhanced shopping tools and support for starting a fundraiser within the app. Instagram has already started rolling out the new tools. Here’s how to use them. Read more: Facebook at F8 announces an Instagram experience less focused on likes Using Instagram’s new camera Create mode …
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Facebook is cracking down on extremist figures and groups. The social network on Thursday barred Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts InfoWars, as well as far-right commentators Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer. The ban, which included InfoWars, extends to the social network’s Instagram photo-sharing service. The social network also banned Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and …
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Facebook is gathering support for its cryptocurrency-based payments service, a report said. The social network talked to Visa, MasterCard and other financial and e-commerce companies about backing the endeavor codenamed Project Libra, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources. Back in December, a report suggested that Facebook is working on a US dollar-linked digital currency that’ll let …
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Have you ever opened the Facebook app only to keep seeing an annoying friends’ posts keep showing up first, and wonder why? There hasn’t been an easy way to figure it out, until now. Recently, Facebook announced the expansion of its “Why am I seeing this ad?” feature to include posts from your friends. Previously, Facebook only detailed why you …
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Verizon Communications is looking for a buyer to take blogging website Tumblr off its hands as it looks to improve its media business’s bottom line, The Wall Street Journal reports. The sales process, which the Journal warned might not result in a transaction, comes as Verizon struggles to make its transition from a wireless and broadband company into a media brand and …
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