Now playing: Watch this: Disney is going to take over Hulu. Now what? (The 3:59,… 4:24 Now playing: Watch this: Disney is going to take over Hulu. Now what? (The 3:59,… 4:24 On this podcast, we talk about: Disney now has complete control of Hulu. San Francisco is voting to ban facial recognition. WhatsApp’s vulnerability …
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A recently discovered WhatsApp flaw made it possible for hackers to remotely install spyware on an iOS or Android device, without the phone’s user even knowing. WhatsApp has already patched the flaw, both on its server and through an update for the app. If you haven’t updated the WhatsApp app right now, do that immediately. The flaw and subsequent fix …
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Politicians are responding to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’ op-ed that argues the social media giant should be broken up. “FB has become too big and too powerful, and it’s part of a trend in our economy of an increasing concentration of corporate power,” Hughes said in a tweet promoting his May 9 New York Times op-ed. “We can fix this: break …
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Facebook is gathering support for its cryptocurrency-based payments service, a report said. The social network talked to Visa, MasterCard and other financial and e-commerce companies about backing the endeavor codenamed Project Libra, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources. Back in December, a report suggested that Facebook is working on a US dollar-linked digital currency that’ll let …
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Facebook is holding its annual developer conference, F8, this week. During the opening keynote on Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg assured users the company is focusing on privacy and touted a new mantra: “The future is private.” In addition to trying to convince users the company has begun to take privacy seriously, there were plenty of new features, apps and product …
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Sitting on a grey couch at Facebook’s headquarters, Stan Chudnovsky starts talking about what humans can’t live without. The head of the social network’s Messenger service isn’t speaking about food, shelter or water. Instead, he points to what he and I are doing at this very moment: communicating. Now playing: Watch this: Facebook launches Messenger for desktop 1:33 “There is …
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Facebook might be considering reintegrating some of its Messenger service back into its primary app. Researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who is well known for reverse-engineering popular social media apps, posted screenshots to Twitter on Friday of Facebook’s app with a Messenger icon in the top right-hand corner, which taps through into the Messenger inbox. “For now, this new ‘Chats’ section …
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WhatsApp Business is now available in Apple’s App Store. The Facebook-owned messaging app is expanding with the WhatsApp Business app for iOS users, according to a Thursday blog post. The business version of WhatsApp rolled out to Android devices in January 2018. The app has a suite of features designed to make it easier for small businesses to communicate with customers, …
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Tired of getting added to random WhatsApp groups from strangers? Good news. WhatsApp’s latest changes give you control over groups you engage with on the messaging app. Instead of being added to a group without your consent, the app now lets you decide who can add you to a group, WhatsApp said in a blog post Wednesday. Now you can …
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Google Inbox is dead. Long live Google Inbox! As of today, Google’s beloved email app Inbox is no more. Fans loved it because it took a different approach to managing email by breaking out messages into different categories instead of one long list, as Gmail does. It’s a downright shame that it’s gone. But before you gnash your teeth in …
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