Sure, Facebook screwed up on the Russia thing, but so did Congress, the media and US spy agencies. That’s the word from the social network’s former chief of security, Alex Stamos, who aired his views in a Washington Post opinion piece Saturday, three days after a front-page report in The New York Times threw a …
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Facebook is reportedly testing a feature for Messenger that would let you and your friends view a synchronized video together in a group chat. The feature, reportedly called “Watch Videos Together,” would let people “chat about the same videos at the same time,” according to screenshots of code posted to Twitter on Friday by Ananay Arora. “Everyone in this chat can …
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Facebook is letting people delete their messenges, but you may not have access to the feature just yet. The Remove feature rolled out Thursday in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia and Lithuania on Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android, according to TechCrunch, which explained how the new feature works. We already knew you’d be able to delete sent messages within 10 minutes, …
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From Russian election meddling to a massive data privacy scandal, Facebook has faced a seemingly endless list of troubles. Now a new report suggests the social network’s leadership may be among its biggest challenges. Over the past three years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg ignored warnings, deflected blame and were distracted by other projects as the social network lurched from …
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It looks like Mark Zuckerberg can hold a grudge. The Facebook CEO reportedly ordered his management team to start using only Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook made public comments about the social media company’s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a report Wednesday in The New York Times. “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Cook …
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Curious what it feels like for Oprah Winfrey look you in the eyes from the body of an all-powerful purple bug on a treadmill? Now you can. Winfrey joins other big-name stars, like John Legend, Constance Wu and Diego Luna, in Crow: The Legend, a free 20-minute virtual-reality experience released Thursday on Facebook‘s Oculus store. The Pixar-like journey follows Crow as he attempts …
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For reasons that are unclear to anyone outside of Facebook, the iOS and Android apps make a ton of noise. There’s a sound when you refresh your feed, when someone starts typing or when you get a new alert. And frankly, the sounds are annoying. Thankfully, you can disable the in-app sounds in a matter of seconds. Disable on iOS …
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You may be creeped out by how much tech companies want to know about you. So is Canopy. Canopy — a new startup built by people who’ve worked at Spotify, Instagram, Google and The New York Times — wants to upend a fundamental concept that propelled many of the internet’s biggest companies to power: To get personalized service, you have …
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There was a time when the Yahoo homepage was one of the most important pieces of real estate on the internet. Verizon hopes to relive that prominence. The new Yahoo app’s look is more streamlined, but inspired by the old Yahoo homepage. Yahoo The carrier, now Yahoo’s owner, said Wednesday it’s launching a free new Yahoo app as a one-stop shop for …
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Spheres, the virtual-reality experience that made waves earlier this year when it landed VR’s first seven-figure distribution deal, is breaking out of the film-festival circuit and is now available for public consumption: The three-chapter series debuted for $9.99 on Facebook‘s Oculus Rift VR headset Tuesday. So far, scarcity of quality VR content has been a persistent weakness crimping virtual reality’s growth. …
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