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Facebook just revealed details about Libra, the company’s cryptocurrency that will allow users to make purchases or make transfers with fees close to zero. According to cybersecurity experts, Libra may be purchased or withdrawn online or at specific exchange points. The company today launched Libra’s white paper, in addition to announcing its testing network to […]
Facebook was long-rumored to introduce its own cryptocurrency. Now, stepping into the all-new crypto world, Facebook has finally made its Libra Cryptocurrency official. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has launched its cryptocurrency wallet called Calibra for its Libra cryptocurrency, based on blockchain technology. The aim of launching a new digital crypto wallet is to allow users […]
Facebook has been in the news for its own cryptocurrency for a while now. With the company’s plans to soon step into the crypto arena, the latest buzz tells us more about Facebook’s new venture. According to a new report, Facebook has been in talks with several financial institutions for its Project Libra and the […]
Instagram down? You are not alone; Instagram is down for everyone. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook. Yes, the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram has been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing its website and applications to go offline. According to the Instagram’s outage map displayed on DownDetecter, […]
Facebook’s fate now involves controversies that have ignited after the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Following all the data-breach issues, Facebook could now land up in a new one — courtesy — Mark Zuckerberg’s old emails. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s employees (close to the matter) have found old emails that suggest […]
Facebook invited lots of criticism earlier this year for having paid users in the 13 to 35 age group for permission to install a “Facebook Research” VPN on their phones. The users were paid up to $20 a month. Upon being widely criticized for accessing data of such users, Facebook had to defend its stand. […]
In January, Facebook landed itself in trouble and got its developer license revoked after it was revealed by TechCrunch that the social media company is paying teenagers to install its research app that grants the company access to user’s web activity and internet usage. Now, Facebook has relaunched its research app, but this time it […]
Object recognition is a computer vision (CV) technique using which computers can recognize objects, such as items in our common households. Now many companies have developed their own systems which are becoming better over time. The closest object recognition tech you can find is right on your phone, Google Lens. Facebook uses the technique to […]
Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans are gaining more traction as the days pass by, at least, according to the news headlines. It got a couple of names like Libra and GlobalCoin. Past reports have suggested that the new blockchain-based money won’t arrive until 2020. But according to The Information, the blue network could unveil its much-hyped cryptocurrency […]
Seems like Huawie’s nightmare in the U.S. market is not ending anytime soon. Now the social media giant, Facebook is banning Huawei from pre-installing their apps to future devices to be released by the Chinese Electronic giant. Huawei’s woes started with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order mandating U.S. companies to cease doing business with […]
Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram has aptly become the go-to social media app and is a convenient way of sharing our lives on social media. For us, it’s the gram time every time; be it about the girl’s night out or new ice cream to try out, we always tap on the camera icon app on […]
Facebook is doing whatever it takes to curb any repercussions from the Cambridge Analytics scandal. Still, the list of lawsuits the company hasn’t ended yet. Right now Facebook is defending itself against a class-action lawsuit related to the scandal. According to a report by Law360, the company’s CEO Orin Synder has made a comment that […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is an ad-free messaging service, but things are about to change from 2020 onwards. At the annual Facebook Marketing Summit held in the Netherlands, Facebook has confirmed that in-app ads will be displayed in the messaging app starting from 2020. Users will see ads within the ‘Status’ feature of WhatsApp as confirmed by […]
The latest report from Motherboard is an important but unsurprising revelation. According to the report, Snapchat’s internal tool ‘SnapLion’ is often abused by employees to access users’ snaps without their permission. Snaps are photos that disappear after some time, however, Snapchat employees have access to these photos and regularly violate users’ privacy, the report added. […]
A massive trove of data containing contact information of more than 49 million Instagram influencers and celebrities has surfaced online. As reported by TechCrunch, the database existed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and was not encrypted or protected by password, making the details visible to anyone. The database that was discovered by security analyst Anurag […]
Facebook has recently announced two significant News Feed changes it’s bringing to the users. It adds to Facebook’s long going operation of “Make Facebook Great Again.” Basically, the company is trying to fix its reputation after the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. The first ranking factor is that the social network will prioritize who are your […]
In December 2018, the career website Glassdoor released its annual list of the best places to work. On the list, Facebook ranked in seventh place and got a 4.5 award score out of 5. In the previous iteration of the list, the social media company ranked 1st. The report didn’t surprise anyone, thanks to the […]
It is unclear whether the WhatsApp vulnerability has been exploited or how many victims have been targeted. WhatsApp is used by roughly 1.5 billion people around the world, and the presence of a security hole that can be exploited for conducting spying on targeted individuals is certainly a troubling discovery. According to security researchers at […]
WhatsApp has today disclosed that a vulnerability allowed hackers to install national grade spyware on phones. The vulnerability was discovered in May this year and exploited a flaw in the audio call feature of the messaging app. The caller was able to install the spyware on the affected phones even though the receiver declined the […]
Facebook co-Founder Chris Hughes wants his former company to break up. He, like many skeptics of big tech, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, is sure that Mark Zuckerberg — Facebook’s CEO — has too much power for one man. Chris and Elizabeth are in favor of an anti-trust fix. This translates to the formation of a […]
A recent report by Reuters suggests that Facebook has hired a team of contract workers in Hyderabad, India, whose job is to comb through millions of Facebook users’ photos, status updates and other content they have posted since 2014. Facebook employees ‘label’ items into five different “dimensions,” or categories, and feed this data to the AI to […]