Baseball is coming to your Facebook page. The social media giant and Major League Baseball are partnering to stream 20 games this season — one a week — to all Facebook users in the US. The games, streamed as part of Facebook Live, will air on Friday nights. The first game will be the Colorado …
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Snapchat made a big mark on augmented reality by putting digital flower crowns on real people. Now Google may make its own mark by showing you digital information about real flowers. On Wednesday, the search giant announced a big push into augmented reality, which overlays digital images on what you’d normally see through a camera. The new technology, announced at …
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YouTube is trying to make its virtual reality app more social. Google’s video site announced Thursday at its I/O developer conference that people will be able to watch VR videos together while in its VR app. While you’re in there, you and a small group of friends can sync up videos to watch together simultaneously and talk to each other …
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Thailand last week gave Facebook an ultimatum: Shut down all pages deemed illegal by Tuesday or face repercussions. Although 131 Facebook pages blacklisted by the local Criminal Court remain accessible today, it seems the platform will not be dealt any legal consequences in Thailand even after the deadline set by authorities has passed, reports Reuters. After Facebook had taken down …
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Facebook has long been plagued with problems related to content monitoring. This week, it added one more to the list. The social media giant has removed Women on Web, a page that included information on how to get abortion pills in places they’re prohibited, according to a Facebook post on Thursday by its affiliated group, Women on Waves. Facebook attributed …
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Thailand’s internet has become increasingly censored in recent years, and now the country is threatening Facebook. The social media giant has been ordered by Thai authorities to remove all posts deemed illegal in the country by next Tuesday, failing which legal action will be taken, reports Bangkok Post. The order came from Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) and …
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We’ve all seen them: tacky, suggestive, borderline explicit ad images littered across spammy, low-rent, minimally informative websites looking for a few easy clicks on Facebook. On Wednesday, the social media platform announced an offensive. “Starting today, we’re rolling out an update so people see fewer posts and ads in News Feed that link to these low-quality web page experiences,” Facebook …
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If you get FOMO from being away from Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, Opera’s new update will please you very much. Opera today introduced a new browser that integrates messaging apps to its sidebar. Codenamed Reborn, the browser lets you chat with friends through Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram on a side window while you work on the main browser. Other …
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Xiaomi‘s got its eyes on expanding in the Latin American market. The Chinese smartphone maker on Tuesday said it would start selling two of its phones, the Redmi Note 4 and the Redmi 4X, in Mexico. The Redmi Note 4 will start at 5,499 Mexican pesos (approximately $296, £221 or AU$390), while the Redmi 4X will start at 3,999 Mexican …
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Facebook is closing its Oculus Story Studio, the award-winning unit that crafted computer-generated short films for the social networking giant’s VR headset maker Oculus. The closure of the 2-year-old studio, which produced such shorts as “Dear Angelica” and “Henry,” was announced in a blog post Thursday by Jason Rubin, Oculus’ vice president of content. “We’ve been looking at the best …
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