New York officials are seeking explanations following an allegation that Facebook collects personal data from apps including weight, alcohol consumption, menstrual cycles, heart rate and blood pressure. According to the Wall Street Journal, one app even allowed a person to record “sexual activity” as exercise and sent that data to Facebook. The New York Department of Financial …
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Facebook said Thursday that a work version of the social network that companies pay for now has more than 2 million users. Called Workplace, the enterprise product made its official debut in October 2016 but Facebook has never revealed how many people use the communications tool. The user numbers that Facebook Workplace released Thursday, though, don’t paint a complete picture. Facebook …
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Facebook is doubling down on ephemeral content. The social network said Thursday it’s releasing a new tool globally that lets users share events in Facebook Stories, a format that allows users to post photos and videos that vanish in 24 hours. Facebook announced in January that it was testing the events feature in US, Mexico and Brazil. The release of …
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Ask me to fix a broken car or motorbike, and you’d be out of luck. But that’s exactly what Microsoft wanted me to do. And the tool it gave me was its new mixed reality HoloLens 2 headset. After I slipped it on, a set of digital instructions popped up over an actual broken ATV, set up in a mock …
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BlackBerry on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter, accusing the social network of illegally using the former phone giant’s mobile messaging technology. Calling Twitter a “relative newcomer,” the lawsuit accuses the microblogging site of co-opting BlackBerry’s technology for use in several services, including the main Twitter app and Twitter Ads, the companies advertising platform. BlackBerry said Twitter’s alleged …
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Two high-profile far-right figures were kicked off social media Tuesday. Jacob Wohl, an internet hoaxer and conservative conspiracy theorist, was banned from Twitter for setting up fake accounts, according to the company. Wohl, a supporter of President Donald Trump, has used the platform to spread falsehoods about people, including special counsel Robert Mueller, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Rep. Ilhan …
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If you haven’t heard of TikTok, you’re now about a billion steps behind. The social video app, which lets users record themselves lip-synching to popular music videos and share the clips with friends, has just surpassed 1 billion downloads on iOS and Android. That’s according to new figures from data insights firm Sensor Tower, which says the app is now …
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Facebook faces mounting concerns about the mental health of contractors who sift through the site for hate speech, violence and porn, even as the social network beefs up its effort to police offensive content. On Monday, Facebook defended outsourcing the work Accenture, Cognizant and other companies. But the world’s biggest social network acknowledged it had room to improve the conditions …
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At the world’s biggest mobile show, the world’s biggest social network has an important mission: To spread the word about its vision to connect the world. Facebook is a familiar face at Mobile World Congress. It puts in an appearance at the Barcelona trade show every February. On Monday show the company shared a number of updates from its connectivity …
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At the biggest mobile show in the world, it’s easy to be blinded by the vast array of shiny new phones. They have a tendency to hog the spotlight. But look a little closer and you’ll see Facebook at MWC 2019. No, it’s not launching a phone — HTC tried that with the Facebook button-rocking ChaCha back at MWC 2011 …
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