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Once you make more than a few conference calls from home, you start to appreciate just how mediocre your laptop’s microphone and speaker really are. My advice: Get a speakerphone. You know, like the ones that pepper conference rooms back at the office. There are some value-priced gems out there. eMeet, for example, has a …

Earlier this month, it came to light that personal data from 533 million Facebook profiles had been scraped and posted on a website for hackers. That data leak has prompted an investigation by the EU’s privacy watchdog, but it may not be the last such event. In fact it’s a privacy problem that Facebook reportedly expects will arise again in …

A Minnesota jury on Tuesday found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all three charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in May 2020. “True justice requires much more,” former President Barack Obama tweeted soon after, and his sentiments were echoed across the tech sphere, including from the heads …

Video meeting giant Zoom is getting several new features aimed at boosting communication and making it easier to present and manage people on the platform, the company said in a Tuesday blog post.  The updates for Zoom meetings include more emoji options for Meeting Reactions. Instead of the current six options, you’ll see around 40. You’ll also be able to …

Facebook said Monday it’s rolling out a way for users to transfer their posts and notes to Google Documents, Blogger and WordPress.com, a move that could help ease concerns that the social network uses its monopoly power to squash rivals.  The world’s largest social media company, along with other tech companies such as Amazon and Google, have faced allegations from regulators …

Facebook plans to launch a series of new “social audio” products in the next few months, taking on buzzy audio-chat apps such as Clubhouse that have become more popular during the pandemic. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance on group chatting app Discord.  Screenshot by Queenie Wong/CNEET “We think that audio is of course also going to be a …

As the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with the murder of George Floyd, draws to a close, Facebook has outlined the ways in which it is preparing to deal with any fallout as the verdict is announced.  Across Facebook and Instagram, moderators are working “around the clock” to look for potential threats, Monika Bickert, vice …

Facebook said Thursday that since 2020, all its operations have been fully supported by renewable energy, hitting a goal the social media giant set in 2018 to combat climate change. The social network made the announcement ahead of Earth Day, an annual event on April 22 that focuses on environmental protection. The milestone shows what tech firms are doing to …

Facebook is under investigation in Europe for a leak that exposed the personal data of more than 530 million global users of its services. The Irish Data Protection Commission, the watchdog responsible for ensuring Facebook abides by European privacy laws, announced on Wednesday that it was opening an inquiry into whether the leak constituted a breach of the General Data …

Facebook’s content oversight board on Tuesday said it will start accepting user appeals over content people want removed from Facebook and Instagram. Previously, the appeal process could only be used to restore content that Facebook had removed from its sites.  The oversight board said the new option — which comes after someone has exhausted Facebook’s appeals process — is being …