It’s widely known that Facebook allows advertisers to specifically target groups of people, but did you know that you can see which advertisers are actively targeting you? You can — and it may blow your mind.
As part of Facebook’s attempt to be more transparent, you can easily find out which advertisers are showing ads using a…
Facebook revealed last week at their F8 Developers Conference that they are close to a typing breakthrough. One that would allow testers to type straight from their brain at 100 words per minute. Sounds crazy, right? Well, not to the team of over 60 researchers, scientists, and engineers making this technology a reality.
What's the Purpose?…
With social media playing such an important role in everyone’s day-to-day lives, one has to wonder how this can affect the security of online accounts and profiles. Social media might have revolutionized the way we communicate with others, but it’s also revolutionized the way that hackers stalk their victims.
Imagine this worst case scenario:
Hackers can impersonate…
With all the hacking attacks we’ve seen in the news, it’s painfully obvious that only using passwords isn't enough to protect our information. We now have more security measures available than ever before. One of the more unique and effective solutions to have surfaced is Facelock, a clever solution that grants access based on how well…
Microsoft is forced to shut down Facebook integration.
There is trouble in the vast sea of 1's and 0's. Due to an update recently released by Facebook for their Graph API, Microsoft was forced to shut down all of its Facebook-related Connect features.
According to Microsoft's support page:
"Facebook has made an update to their Graph API…
Facebook will now support GPG encryption, which is a variant of OpenPGP encryption, in all email correspondence with customers. This provides end-to-end encryption for security-conscious individuals. However, this may not be for everyone as it requires some knowledge of the actual implementation of the encryption process, including how to obtain a PGP key. To obtain one, each party…
Facebook’s efforts to spread Internet connectivity to nearly every person on the globe will get off the ground this summer. A new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook’s prototype drone, Aquila, will be much larger than the one-tenth-scale drone that the company tested last year.
The full-size model will have the wingspan of…
Facebook Starts Testing Buy Button
Facebook has confirmed that it is now testing a Buy button on ads and page posts.
The button will let you purchase products directly from a business, without leaving Facebook. Currently, Facebook is testing the new feature with just a few small and medium-sized U.S. businesses.
"We've built this feature with privacy…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella releases disappointing memo
In a 3,200 word memo released to everyone who works inside Microsoft and even published on the company’s website July 11, 2014, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's latest CEO, expressed that change is coming to the software giant and gave a few new perspective points to the new wave to…
Liverail has been purchased by Facebook.
Watch out! Increase in video ads coming to a Facebook page near you.
Facebook has purchased the video advertising company Liverail, reports are claiming it paid between $400 and $500 million.
Facebook VP Brian Boland announced the buyout, saying that with the addition of Liverail, Facebook, will be better placed to serve more…
Thousands of former Myspace users, who long ago grew up, got Facebook and forgot that Myspace was ever a thing, got an unsettling message from the undead social network over the weekend. The site is still around, like some sort of digital zombie. And it has billions of pictures from a time before the Internet knew…
Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of the world’s number one social networking website, has now decided to run video advertisements. The ads will be automatically played 15 second videos that will be placed throughout the user’s news feed indirectly as to not disturb the individual or take the main focus from the one’s original…