Snapchat Stories are branching out, hoping to bring more people in. Stories, the app feature that lets people and publishers string together photos and video clips that eventually disappear, will be easier to share outside the Snapchat app, as part of a redesign unveiled Tuesday. The one big caveat: My Story, the compilation that you …
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Facebook plans to give its 2 billion users more control over their data before a landmark data collection law goes into effect in Europe this spring. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into affect in May, aims to give Europeans more control over their information and how companies use it. Companies that fail to comply face fines …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Scorning lesser tech souls? Kimberly White And now they turn on their own. It used to be that Silicon Valley was one vast love-in, with so many of its senior figures believing they were angels brought together to deliver the world to a better place. …
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Facebook is opening three centers across Europe to train more than 1 million people in digital skills over the next two years, the company said Monday. The sites will be based in Spain, Italy and Poland and will focus on training in media literacy and online safety for underrepresented groups, Facebook said in a blog post. The social network also announced 10 million …
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News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is calling on Facebook and other online news platforms to pay publishers for content posted to their sites. Murdoch issued the statement Monday, a week after Facebook made two major changes to its news feed algorithm. First the social network said it will prioritize posts from friends and family members over those from brands and …
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If Facebook gets its way, maybe the next time you want your friend to hold the door for a second, you’ll say, “Hang on for 705,600,000 flicks.” Well, OK, you probably won’t. But you could, because Facebook introduced a new unit of time on Monday called the flick. The company thinks it’ll be useful for programmers if not for talking …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An expert in responsibility avoidance? Paul Marotta/Getty Images The man whose mission it is, this year, to fix Facebook would prefer you to do it for him. All of you. All of you who can be bothered to answer surveys on Facebook, that is. This …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Not a Facebook fan? Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook and its ilk have taken a beating of late. Even former executives have admitted they fear social networks are doing terrible damage to kids’ psyches. Now there’s another senior tech figure who seems to be …
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