Facebook is making its line of Portal-branded smart video calling devices more relevant to consumers, including those who don’t even have a Facebook account. The company today says its Portal family of products will now work with just a…
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Snapchat seems to be testing a new feature inside its app. The new feature called Cameo, and spotted by French users of the app, lets you use your selfies to replace faces of people in videos and GIFs which you can share with your friends.…
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Facebook AI Research (FAIR) says it’s created the latest AI to achieve state-of-the-art performance when playing the card game Hanabi. The AI system achieves a score of 24.61 out of 25, while the previous best got 23.92 out of 25. In…
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Pakistani authorities have approached Twitter management against the unannounced crackdown on Pakistani Twitter accounts at the behest of the Indian government. The spokesperson of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTIA), Khurram…
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Facebook filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Chinese citizens, accusing them of operating a hacking campaign targeting ad accounts on the social network. Hackers have increasingly been going after Facebook ad accounts, using their…
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Instagram will begin verifying user ages upon creation of an account, making it compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Instagram will now start asking those who sign up for their date of birth in a move the platform…
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Earlier this week Twitter said that from December 11, it would start deleting accounts on its platform that haven’t been logged into for at least six months. Since then, the company has been clarifying a number of issues linked to its…
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Instagram is hiding Like counts to make people feel better. But what if you’re curious, competitive, or just petty? Now you can re-embrace the popularity contest by installing the Socialinsider Chrome extension that reveals Instagram Like…
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Twitter says it wants to be more upfront about the way it handles user data, and has launched a new Privacy Center with that goal in mind. Admitting that “we have room for improvement” when it comes to communicating with its users about…
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Some Facebook employees recently told their managers that they were concerned about answering difficult questions about their workplace from friends and family over the holidays. What if Mom or Dad accused the social network of destroying…
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Twitter is updating its global privacy policy to give users more information about what data advertisers might receive and is launching a site to provide clarity on its data protection efforts, the company said on Monday. The changes,…
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Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of ‘Data Transfer Project,’ an initiative the company launched last year in collaboration with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter.…
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It’s not friend portability, but Facebook has announced the launch today of a photo transfer tool to enable users of its social network to port their photos directly to Google’s photo storage service, via encrypted transfer. The photo…
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Social media usage is often associated with negative impacts on the brain including depression, sleep deprivation, etc. Experts in several studies claim that excessive social media usage is one of the main causes of teens growing up with…
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A new survey has found that Canadian men are shopping on social media more than women. PayPal Canada’s Social Commerce Trend Study found that 33 per cent of men who use social media are doing their shopping through those platforms on a…
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Twitter has paused its plans to delete accounts that haven’t been logged into for six months, after an outcry over protecting the accounts of those who have died. The story began earlier this week, when Twitter announced it was going to…
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SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook suffered an outage on Thursday (Nov 28) because of what it called a software problem, hindering access to the social platform and its other apps such as Instagram. As of around 1800 GMT they had been down for…
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Twitter is warning inactive users to log back into their accounts or risk losing access. The company is going to embark on an account purge. On the plus side, the company is reclaiming the Twitter handles so that active users can grab them…
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Facebook and Twitter have announced that personal data related to hundreds of users may have been improperly accessed after users logged into third-party Android apps with their social media accounts. According to a report by CNBC, users…
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Ahead of the publication of its full financial statements in Ireland, Facebook has revealed its pre-tax profits rose 43pc on the previous year. Facebook Ireland has said that it paid €63.2m in corporation tax to the Government last year,…
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Facebook today introduced Viewpoints, its new dedicated market research app that offers rewards for participating users who contribute in surveys and other tasks. That came a year after the company got involved in privacy scandals as a…
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Twitter users can now hide replies, without going as far as removing them from the platform entirely. After testing the tool earlier this year, Twitter announced (via tweet, of course) that users can now hide replies. The option begins…
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In another example of social media platforms snatching up ideas popularized by other apps, Snapchat is offering users a glimpse into the future (or past) with an augmented reality (AR) Time Machine. The new Snapchat face filter, which…
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Porn stars and sex workers say that Instagram keeps deleting their accounts even when their posts don’t violate the site’s content standards, according to a new BBC News story. “They discriminate against us because they don’t like what we…
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Facebook will reward users for taking surveys, completing tasks and participating in research with its new market research app, Facebook Viewpoints. The social media giant said it plans to use the insights from users 18 and older to…
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