Facebook may finally be bringing the diet version of its app to Apple devices. The social network appears to have launched Facebook Lite for iOS devices on Thursday, but so far only in Turkey. The iOS version of Facebook Lite uses less data, saves space on your iPhone and can even work with 2G, according …
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Inrupt, the startup from web creator Tim Berners-Lee, isn’t about to squeeze Facebook off the internet, but it has attracted interest from tens of thousands of people. Inrupt is backing an open-source project from Berners-Lee called Solid that’s designed to let us keep control over own data instead of handing it over to companies like Facebook and Google. Over the …
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First things first: Yesterday’s free-logo deal? Back in business. Apologies to those of you who went through the process of creating a logo and then discovered the code didn’t work. It does now. (And, for the record, it did initially, because I tested it!) Today I’ve got one of the weirder — and better — bundles I can recall. For …
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Facebook wants to bring you even more video. The social media giant on Tuesday rolled out Premieres globally and expanded its interactive video polls and Top Fans features. Facebook interactive video polls will be available for most videos soon. Facebook Facebook started testing Premieres earlier this year. The feature lets you post prerecorded video clips — such as movie trailers or …
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With the US midterm elections just over a month away, Twitter’s cracking down on fake accounts. “We now may remove fake accounts engaged in a variety of emergent, malicious behaviors,” the company said in a blog post on its elections integrity work. It’s expanded its rules for identifying fake accounts, looking for stock or stolen avatar photos, stolen or copied …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Facebook on Friday disclosed a new data breach affecting 50 million users. Tesla CEO Elon Musk agrees to step down as chairman and pay fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC sued Musk over a tweet he sent out in August that inaccurately claimed he had secured funding to …
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World wide web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, aims to bring data back to the people. The computer scientist announced Inrupt’s open source project, Solid, in a weekend blog post. It’s “a platform based on the existing web” that gives you control over your personal information and allows you to decide where it’s stored, who can view different elements and …
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Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger said last week that they’re leaving the photo sharing service, six years after it was bought by Facebook. On Monday, they named their successor. Adam Mosseri, who was head of product for Instagram and before that the head of Facebook’s news feed feature, has been named Instagram’s new chief. But that wasn’t all the …
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In a vast, dark room, the lights glow a steady green, blue, yellow. I’m not inside the Matrix, but it’s not far off. With every step, I walk past thousands upon thousands of virtual interactions between real people happening through the world’s largest social network, Facebook. I’m inside the company’s newest European data center in Clonee, Ireland, a small town …
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If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure your Facebook account, you likely, at some point, gave Facebook your phone number. 2FA adds an almost impenetrable layer of security to your Facebook account, since it requires you to enter a code sent via text message before logging in. What you likely didn’t know was that Facebook would use that data …
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