How you respond to your friends on Facebook is about to change, as the social networking company begins rolling out its new Reactions worldwide. The new feedback “emotions” offer you more ways to react to someone’s post by including responses such as love, laughter, excitement, s … | Continue reading
Facebook's redesigned Like button is finally here.After months of testing, the social network is finally rolling out reactions to everyone, Facebook announced Wednesday. The update, which includes four new reactions — Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry — will be available to all user … | Continue reading
Facebook wants to get everybody online, whether that’s through regular networks or high-flying drones. But to do that, it has to know where people actually are. The best population maps available today aren’t precise enough for Facebook’s needs. So instead of waiting for somebody … | Continue reading
Snapchat just got a little more like FacebookThe app rolled out a new "Birthday Party" feature on Tuesday, which allows you to unlock special Snapchat lenses on your birthday and on the birthdays of friends. You can enable the feature by entering your birthday in the app's main s … | Continue reading
The latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to pick a side in Apple and the FBI's war of words is Bill Gates, and in a surprising turn, he's backing the law.The Microsoft founder pushed back on Apple CEO Tim Cook's claim the case would set a troubling legal precedent, he told the Finan … | Continue reading
Facebook is practically king at reminding you when your friends are celebrating their birthdays, pushing you to say hi and wish them well. Today, the company will now encourage you to leave a video — with the ‘Birthday Video Cam.’ When you access your Facebook via mobile (iOS onl … | Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a way to make wishing "happy birthday" to your friends a little more personal.The company announced a feature on Monday that allows users to record 15-second videos that can be shared to a friend's timeline. You'll also be able to select from various birth … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Mark Zuckerberg is on Apple's side, but we're still not sure what he'd do if the FBI asked him to help break into a customer's encrypted phone. The Facebook CEO and founder gave his thoughts on a variety of topics in a keynote conversation on Monday, closing up the fi … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — Mark Zuckerberg made his second annual appearance at the mobile industry’s big event as a keynote speaker where he discussed everything from his 3-month-old baby to his love of virtual reality. Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the Mobile World Congress 20 … | Continue reading
Facebook had a high-profile setback when its Free Basics mobile connectivity program got blocked in India earlier this month over net neutrality issues, but its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is adamant — even upbeat — about the social network continuing to look for other ways to provide se … | Continue reading
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is using AI to create high-resolution maps of 20 countries in order for it to understand how best it can deploy internet to the 10 percent of the world that isn’t connected. As the technical side to Facebook’s Internet.org project, Connectivity Labs mo … | Continue reading
At the 2015 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona today, Facebook announced the formation of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an effort that resembles the Open Compute Project (OCP) that Facebook kicked off five years ago but is narrowly focused on development of new tele … | Continue reading
Facebook’s continued fascination with VR reached new heights today, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke of the company’s new initiatives in VR onstage at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Specifically, he talked about the increased effort towa … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a much-needed shot of adrenaline to Samsung’s Unpacked press conference by making an unannounced appearance on stage to talk virtual reality and to praise his South Korean partner. “VR is the next platform, where anyone ca … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance onstage during Samsung's keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona SundayDuring his remarks, Facebook's chief executive spoke about the company's vision for virtual reality and praised Samsung for its Gear VR headset, ca … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a few updates for its virtual reality (VR) efforts. The company said it has established a formal Social VR team that will build on the achievements of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Of course, the new team will collaborate with the Facebook … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,759 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the eight most interesting patents. Facebook’s imposter detection Patent Number – US 9,2 … | Continue reading
In an announcement post on Facebook, the company revealed the details of this new feature, which primarily targets users who share a single device. | Continue reading
Lets say you’ve got kids. They like Messenger for talking with other kids about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days.You’re happy to let them use Messenger in the evenings, but they’re not quite old enough for a phone of their own just yet. What to do?Fa … | Continue reading
A few days ago, the rumor mill pointed out that Facebook Messenger would soon support SMS and multiple accounts for Android. Half of that came true today. Via an update, Facebook Messenger will now support multiple accounts, which the company is framing as a feature for families … | Continue reading