It’s not just Facebook, Twitter and Google. Even Pokemon Go, the mega-popular smartphone game that became a phenomenon last year, was the target of Russian agents trying to meddle with the 2016 US election, according to a report Thursday by CNN. The effort was allegedly centered on a campaign called “Don’t Shoot Us,” an apparent …
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A researcher was still combing through Facebook posts from Russia-affiliated accounts when the social networking company deleted them from the public record. That’s according to The Washington Post, which reported Thursday that analyst Jonathan Albright had downloaded posts from six of the Facebook pages before learning information from all 470 accounts was no longer publicly available. Albright told the Post …
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Facebook is bringing Stories, the photo and video feature it cribbed from Snapchat, to yet another part of its platform. This time, the feature is coming to Pages, which are official Facebook pages used by brands, including publishers, artists, athletes and businesses. Stories are strings of video clips and photos that disappear after 24 hours. The format was first developed …
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to turn you — and another 999,999,999 people — into VR believers. As part of Facebook‘s latest quest to make virtual reality an everyday part of our lives, the company’s CEO is bringing out the biggest weapon he can think of to win over customers: deals he thinks you can’t refuse. The world’s biggest social network, which …
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Facebook users around the world experienced an outage of the social network Wednesday, which appears to be continuing for many. “Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services,” a company representative said. “We quickly investigated and started restoring access within about an hour, and we have nearly fixed the issue for everyone. We’re sorry …
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Congressional leaders say they plan to publicly release thousands of politically divisive Facebook ads purchased by Russian-linked operatives during the 2016 US presidential election. Representatives Mike Conaway and Adam Schiff, leaders of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, said Wednesday that they were working with the company to release the ads publicly after meeting with Facebook chief …
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What would truly get you to buy a VR headset? How about a $199 price? Facebook just announced Oculus Go, a standalone headset that doesn’t require a PC or a phone to get you into VR, at the company’s Oculus Connect developer conference. It’s coming in early 2018 for $199, or roughly £150 or AU$255 converted. According to Oculus …
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What’s the state of Facebook’s virtual-reality technology? We’ll find out today in San Jose. Oculus, the social network’s VR subsidiary, kicks off its fourth annual developers conference today in the heart of Silicon Valley. But with the virtual-reality movement seemingly stuck in neutral, the company has more to prove than ever. The day one keynote is scheduled to run from …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Online hate brought offline. In Real Life/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What’s the worst thing anyone’s ever said to you online? One of my favorites was a person who told me that every day he wished I’d never been born. He managed to time it …
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Virtual reality was one of the marquee tech trends of last year, but it’s gone a little stale. Facebook is trying to shake that up with its Oculus Connect developer conference Wednesday. Special guest CNET editor Scott Stein and I talk about what it’s going to take for virtual reality to be something anyone would want — and not just …
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