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A fictional Facebook Portal videochat with Mark Zuckerberg
TechCrunch: Hey Portal, dial Mark Portal: Do you mean Mark Zuckerberg? TC: Yes Portal: Dialling Mark… TC: Hi Mark! Nice…
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Snapchat now has cat lenses. (Yes, for your cat.)
It’s 8:00 PM on Friday night and you’re home alone and already drunk. Oh, is that just me? Well no…
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Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages
In April, TechCrunch broke the news that some of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages were deleted from recipients’ inboxes in what…
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Facebook bans hundreds of clickbait farms for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
Facebook has announced a relatively small but significant purge of bad actors from the platform: 810 pages and accounts that…
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Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info stolen, 14M’s bios too
Facebook has now detailed what data was scraped and stolen in the breach it revealed two weeks ago. 30 million…
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Zyl is now a nostalgia-powered photo app
AI-powered photo management app Zyl is going back to the drawing board with a streamlined, more efficient redesign. The app…
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Instagram tests tapping instead of scrolling through posts, first in Explore
The effortless way you fast forward through Stories could be coming to more of Instagram. A screenshot from user Suprateek…
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Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth
What if you could peek behind what’s in your photos, like you’re moving your head to see what’s inside a…
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Facebook Groups can now launch up to 250-person chat rooms
If you miss the old AOL chat rooms, you’ll love Facebook’s plan to combine Groups and Messenger without spamming you…
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How Amazon solved the smart bot problem (VB Live)
Smart customer service chatbots are cool. But there’s a reason companies like Amazon are ditching them in favor of a…
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