Concerned parents with children who are taking part in unsupervised trick-or-treating or other guardian-free Halloween activities can find some anxiety relief without tagging along. Don’t go all crazy-stalker-parent on them, but you can easily use location sharing between mobile phones with various apps. Find My Friends If you’re an iPhone family, there is actually more …
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Now playing: Watch this: 5G video that changes according to your reactions. Scary… 4:17 On this podcast, we talk about: How movies and shows could be more interactive with 5G Apple CEO Tim Cook’s views on data privacy CNET’s exclusive interview with the FCC on rural broadband The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of …
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More pages and accounts got kicked off of Facebook. The social network on Tuesday said it has removed 68 pages and 43 accounts linked to Brazilian marketing group Raposo Fernandes Associados for violating the company’s misrepresentation and spam policies. RFA used fake accounts and pages to post huge amounts of clickbait, much of it sensational political content, that directed users …
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Facebook’s messaging app is getting a new look, and the tech firm wants to keep it simple. On Tuesday, the social media giant unveiled a new version of Messenger that the company said is easier for users to browse. Instead of nine tabs along the bottom, users will now have only three tabs: Chats, People and Discover. The Chats tab displays …
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Instagram. WhatsApp. And now Oculus. Top executives at companies Facebook has acquired keep heading for the exits. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, who co-founded the virtual reality startup Facebook bought for more than $2 billion in 2014, on Monday became the latest high-profile leader to depart the world’s largest social network. That list reads like a who’s who of the tech …
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Mozilla is trying to find out if you’re willing to pay $10 a month to get better privacy — and to give the Firefox maker a little financial independence from Google. Mozilla makes money through search-ad deals, notably with Google, in which it’s paid for sending Firefox users’ search queries to Google. Google shows ads next to the search results, …
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Facebook has apologized after a British woman who lost her child continued to see baby product ads after changing her advertising preference on the site. Anna England-Kerr found that her feed “was filled with ads for baby things” despite using the social media site to share the news that her daughter had been stillborn and changing her settings to avoid …
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Facebook has hired a former deputy prime minister of the UK, Nick Clegg, to lead its global affairs team, the company announced Friday. Clegg, who served as deputy PM from 2010 to 2015 as part of the country’s coalition government, will take up the role of senior vice president, global affairs and communications, next Monday. He takes over from Elliot …
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I speak enough French to get by, and for some reason I thought that foundation would help me during a recent vacation to Italy. It did not. (It’s like those Italians have a different word for everything!) Needless to say, whether you want to be a world traveler, gain an edge when applying for a job, or impress a date …
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Facebook knew it was misleading advertisers about the average time users spent watching videos long before admitting it. And it tried to shift attention from the error, a lawsuit says. The social network revealed in September 2016 that it artificially inflated a key metric, total time watched divided by views, for two years because it only counted videos as viewed …
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