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 improve Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal, Oculus and the general community, according to a company blog post. Facebook has […]
Facebook is reportedly working on facial-recognition software that would verify the identities of users trying to access the app. Jane Manchun Wong, a technology blogger and app researcher who unlocks features before they launch, tweeted out a prototype of Facebook’s facial-recognition identity login on. This is how Facebook's Facial Recognition-based Identity Verification looks like It […]
Facebook has decided that a rebranding is in order. The company has introduced a new corporate logo and brand strategy that it hopes will more clearly distinguish Facebook the company and its individual apps. There’s not much to say about the logo in question, as it’s just “Facebook” written in a a plain font. It’ll […]
Facebook’s stance on truth in political ads has been put to the test. Facebook has removed a ‘stunt’ ad from a Political Action Committee, the Really Online Lefty League, that falsely claimed Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal proposed by some Democrats. A company spokesman told Reuters that the ad was eligible […]
Facebook has announced the rollout of a new News tab as part of a limited to 200,000 users in the US. The company wants to dedicate this new section in its mobile app to a mix of 200 publishers like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, and USA Today, in an effort to keep them […]
Facebook is bringing its connected device strategy to the television. The company today announced Portal TV, an accessory that brings the company’s wide-angle video chats to the biggest screen in the house. Portal TV is begins shipping November 5th for $149 or you can also bundle two Portal devices together and take $50 off. Facebook […]
A new report from CNBC claims Facebook is teaming up with Ray-Ban parent brand Luxottica for its AR glasses that are internally codenamed Orion. Unlike augmented reality glasses that are currently available, Facebook’s smart AR glasses are apparently designed to replace smartphones. As per the report, Facebook’s smart AR glasses will lets users receive phone […]
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple have all received letters requesting sensitive information, as well as over 400 questions from the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee about how their businesses achieved dominant positions in their respective industries. The formal request was made as part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, also known […]
Facebook finally bringing it to the US today. Nathan Sharp, product lead at Facebook, revealed the news at an event in New York City, making the US the 20th country where Facebook Dating is now live. In addition to coming to the States, Facebook Dating is available in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, […]
A researcher has found several databases stored on an unprotected server that held personal information mostly phone numbers of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. When Mark Zuckerberg outlined Facebook’s “privacy-focused” future earlier this year, everyone was right to treat his promises with skepticism. The latest security breach exposed the phone numbers of 419 million […]
Facebook-owned Instagram made waves earlier this year when it began a test that removed ‘Like’ counts on users posts. According to a recent leak, though, that shift in philosophy will take hold on Facebook proper for some users. The change was first noted by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who discovered the new behavior in […]
The most advanced AIs today can perform select tasks with superhuman-like efficiency, beating the best humans have to offer at intricate games like Starcraft II and Go. But ask those same AIs to perform something outside of their area of expertise, and they’ll struggle. Creating an AI that’s a generalist is one of the next […]
Facebook is extending Hollywood studios’ ad buys on the social platform with the official launch of two new features movie reminders and showtimes. Users can hit the “Interested” button when they come across a movie ad in their News Feed, and they’ll receive a notification when the movie is in theaters, similar to how event […]
Facebook last week halted a program in which it was paying third-party contractors to listen to and transcribe audio clips from its users, said Facebook. Earlier, Bloomberg reported on the existence of the program and the fact it had been stopped. The contractors had no knowledge of where the audio was being recorded or how it […]
Facebook is developing a dark mode version of its Android app. This is according to researcher Jane Manchun Wong (via Android Police), who dug into the app’s code and discovered some parts of the app have been reworked to have a dark background. Facebook is working on Dark Mode for mobile I wrote a […]