Facebook on Tuesday said its political ad transparency rules are expanding to the UK. That means British political ads will note who paid for them, and those doing the paying will have proven their identity and location to Facebook — by providing a passport, driver’s license or residence permit that’ll be checked by a third-party …
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Facebook is reportedly planning another video chat device, but this one could be for your TV. The world’s largest social network is building a camera-equipped device that sits on top of a TV and allows video calling along with entertainment services, according to Cheddar. The device is reportedly code-named “Ripley” and uses the same technology as Facebook’s Portal video chat …
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Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday. Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …
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When Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom thinks back to the start of his social media company, he compares the process to launching a rocket. “Instagram didn’t feel done by any stretch of the imagination, but it felt like it was in orbit. And if we let go and let others take it, it would continue to go on,” …
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You may soon be able to take back what you send on Facebook’s Messenger platform. The company is working on a prototype of the Unsend feature, according to TechCrunch. Facebook said in April that it would add the feature, after it was caught deleting messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tipster Jane Manchun Wong tweeted screenshots Friday of what appears to …
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DuckDuckGo now runs 30 million private searches a day. The privacy-focused search engine on Thursday said in a tweet that “it took us seven years to reach 10 million private searches in one day, then another two years to hit 20 million, and now less than a year later we’re at 30 million! Thank you all. #ComeToTheDuckSide.” DuckDuckGo fun fact: …
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Now you can post 3D photos on your Facebook news feed. Facebook on Thursday started rolling out a feature that turns 2D shots taken with a compatible dual-lens phone into 3D photos. On your news feed, you can scroll, pan and tilt to see the photos in 3D. Everyone is able to see 3D photos in their news feed now, …
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Instagram is taking action against bullying on its platform. On Tuesday, the Facebook-owned photo sharing network rolled out a machine-learning tool that detects bullying in photos and captions. If the AI tool deems a photo unkind or unwelcome, it will send the snap sent to Instagram’s community operations team for further review, according to a blog post. The AI tool …
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Magic Leap, one of the most talked-about, overhyped startups in the tech industry, reached a major milestone this summer when it released its mixed reality headset to developers after years of promises. Now CEO Rony Abovitz and his team are working to convince developers and creative types who’ve paid $2,295 for the first-generation Magic Leap One “Creator Edition” to invest …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 545: iPhone charging woes, Facebook’s… 29:05 Is it too much to ask that when you plug in your iPhone to charge, it charges? Apparently so. But a fix is on the way for a charging bug in Apple’s new iPhone XS. CNET’s Katie Collins and Richard Trenholm concentrate their very hardest to learn …
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