[ad_1] The Tribeca Film Festival is underway, and it’s live-streaming a handful of its talks. Through the festival’s Facebook page, you can watch conversations with celebs like Queen Latifah, Michael J. Fox, Denis Leary, Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish. You can also catch cast members from In Living Color, who will reunite to reflect on […]
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National Geographic is bringing an Antarctic adventure to Oculus Quest
[ad_1] Using the Oculus Touch controllers, you’ll be able to set up camp, form a wind barricade and zip up your tent to help you get a sense of what it might be like to survive such a tough environment. The National Geographic Partners Immersive Experiences team has been working with Oculus and VR/AR studio […]
New York AG is investigating Facebook over email contact scraping
[ad_1] Facebook claims 1.5M contact databases were harvested by its email verification process, but the total number of people whose information was improperly obtained may be hundreds of millions. It’s time Facebook be held accountable for how it handles consumers’ personal info. — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) April 25, 2019 Facebook said the data collection […]
Sri Lanka temporarily bans social media after terrorist bombings
[ad_1] The country isn’t alone in curbing social network use, joining the likes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran and Turkey. While Sri Lanka’s bans are momentary and ostensibly aimed at preventing already chaotic situations from getting worse, they share a common effect of chilling all online speech, not just extremists and misinformation, until […]
Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later
[ad_1] One variation had been around since the time of the attack. All of the videos Feinberg found were sitting on Arabic-language pages. Facebook has removed one of the videos as of this writing, and reiterated its plans to improve its filtering technology. It’s using audio recognition to spot clips that might otherwise evade filters, […]
Bots have invaded Instagram comments
[ad_1] Based on dozens of Instagram pages we reviewed, including those from ESPN, House of Highlights, LeBron James, Travis Scott, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and The Fat Jewish, these types of comments are becoming commonplace. Most of the accounts posting them have similar usernames, usually a name followed by a number (e.g. “cherylmason0” or “delpha_dibbert5”), […]
Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text
[ad_1] Facebook shared the news as an update to a month-old blog post, which could be seen as a suspicious move to attract less attention. But a company spokesperson said Facebook simply learned that more Instagram passwords than originally suspected were exposed. Facebook had estimated it would have to notify tens of thousands of Instagram […]
Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump
[ad_1] According to the report, the IRA had dozens of employees who were responsible for “operating accounts and personas” on all these social media sites. The IRA referred to these employees as “specialists,” and they were in charge of creating pages that pretended to be personal accounts of people in the US and, later, fake […]
Facebook is working on a voice AI rival to Siri and Alexa
[ad_1] A spokesperson told the news organization: “We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and future products.” Facebook has previous experience developing AI assistants, but none that could rival Alexa or Siri. It launched the M assistant for Messenger in […]
Facebook ‘unintentionally’ saved contacts of 1.5 million new users
[ad_1] Remember the weird revelation that Facebook was asking some new users for the password to their email account? Tonight Business Insider reports that since May 2016, if users entered their email password then Facebook used it to access their contact list and upload the contents to its servers without asking for permission. In a […]