Four of the five biggest companies in tech now are backing an effort to make video easier and cheaper online. On Monday, Facebook joined the Alliance for Open Media, a consortium building new video compression technology that doesn’t require any patent licensing payments. The effort unified next-gen video compression work already under way at Google, …
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Love Bill Murray and baseball? Then head to Facebook next week. A new unscripted series featuring the comedic actor and his brother will debut on Facebook Watch on Monday. “Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray’s Extra Innings” will feature 10 episodes, released each week, where the brothers travel to visit minor league baseball organizations in various cities across the US. The …
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Popular social music app Musical.ly has been bought by Beijing Bytedance Technology for a reported $800 million, according to Bloomberg. Bytedance, a company valued at $20 billion and which produces the Toutiao news aggregation app, announced the news on Friday morning but did not announce the financial terms, according to Bloomberg. Musical.ly lets users lip-sync along to short music …
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Facebook is asking people to share their nude photos. But this isn’t what it sounds like. The goal of the social network’s plan is make sure people’s nude photos aren’t used for revenge porn by a disgruntled ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Facebook already has a reporting system in place for when someone’s intimate photos are shared …
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Looking for a new place to rent can be a terrible experience. Facebook says it wants to help. The social network on Thursday announced an update of the Marketplace section of Facebook, where people can go to buy or sell new and used stuff locally. Now, users in the US will have more options when they are sorting through house …
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Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, had some harsh words about the social network during an interview this week. The tech investor, also a co-founder of Napster and, perhaps most recognizably, the guy played by Justin Timberlake in “The Social Network,” said Facebook was designed to exploit the way people fundamentally think and behave. There have been “unintended consequences,” Parker said, …
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Editors’ note: This story is part of our Turned On special report exploring the intersection of sex and technology. It contains sexually explicit descriptions and may not be suited for younger readers. In the sunny living room of a Mediterranean-style house in Oakland, California, Rosalind sips coffee through a straw. The 24-year-old research assistant wears a thin green utility jacket …
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The Christmas season seems to start earlier and earlier each year. I find that by the time the holiday actually comes, I’m so Christmassed out I’m not even excited. If this happens to you too, I’ve found a way to limit Christmas a little bit: I’ve removed it from my Facebook feed — in my browser at least — until after …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The executives were in town for an annual gathering of advisers to Tsinghua University in Beijing, according to Reuters. Both Cook and Zuckerberg serve on the advisory board for Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management. Xi spoke to business leaders and officials at a meeting …
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