Facebook’s team collaboration software, Workplace, is getting a free version anyone can sign up for. The company is calling the tier its standard version, and it’s currently testing it with a select group of users with a plan to roll it out later this year for any group that’s ea … | Continue reading
Facebook has created a new empire over the last six months. It has nothing to do with Snapchat or even virtual reality, and it's not just about video.SEE ALSO: Facebook wants your boss to let you use FacebookFacebook Workplace is the social network's effort to get serious about g … | Continue reading
In August 1945, a few days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the government released an official report on the history of the destructive weapon. “The work on the atomic bomb,” it explained, was undertaken in Los Alamos, where “an extraordina … | Continue reading
Goldman Sachs' first-quarter earnings report was a rare miss, and most other big banks reported large profits. Deputy Banking editor Aaron Lucchetti and Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero discuss what went wrong at Goldman. Photo: Reuters | Continue reading
Facebook’s been steadily growing its Developer Circles initiative in recent months and today the company provided an update on growth and announced a new partnership with Udacity during its annual F8 conference. Developer Circles is Facebook’s community-driven initiative for eng … | Continue reading
Facebook is finally announcing a real VR social app, and it’s called Facebook Spaces. The app allows you to create an avatar and browse through your Facebook feed. Moreover, you can use it as a virtual hangout of sorts. Facebook showed off creating artwork, playing games, listeni … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a lot of products to announce as he kicked off this year's F8, the conference for developers and other entrepreneurs who use Facebook in their products, but he first wanted to talk about relationships. "For the past decade, Facebook has focused on … | Continue reading
Google hasn’t had a terrific record with building social networks, but its Timeline feature for Google Maps is actually surprisingly similar to a primary facet of most social products, and it’s a very interesting addition to an app that has largely been focused solely on getting … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, Facebook held the first F8 developer conference where its platform debuted. Since then, a myriad of tools have been released to allow developers to build websites, apps, and bots on top of the social network and its “graph” of data. This year, however, the company … | Continue reading
My uterus needs more options. In 2013, a gynecologist told me that it was too short to fit any FDA-approved IUD. So I traipsed from Colorado to Canada to get a smaller IUD called the GyneFix. This IUD isn’t shaped like a “T”—as all American IUDs are—but, rather, a rod.Three years … | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding a new account recovery tool it debuted in January that allows other sites such as GitHub to establish encrypted account recovery tokens that are stored by Facebook. When a user loses their GitHub password and gets locked out of their account, he sends the r … | Continue reading
Facebook’s most fascinating virtual reality experiment, a VR hangout session where you can interact with friends as if you were sitting next to one another, is now ready for the public. The company is calling the product Facebook Spaces, and it’s being released today in beta form … | Continue reading
More than three years after its acquisition of Oculus, Facebook is a product even more deeply intertwined with people’s online identities. Today, Facebook is reaching an important milestone as it launches the first significant integration of social virtual reality into its core … | Continue reading
What started as fun and games has turned into big business. Esports is one of the fastest growing trends in the world, and investors have taken notice.Investment group ‘aXiomatic’ have done more than take notice. In 2016, the group purchased one of the largest teams in esports: T … | Continue reading
During the opening moments of this year's F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg began showing off the company's augmented reality strategy, and it's looks pretty damn amazing. Announcing Facebook's new augmented reality platform, called Camera, as an open beta starting today, Zuck showe … | Continue reading
The fast-growing industry of esports, with its large youth audience, has caught the attention of wealthy investment groups from the traditional sports world.'aXiomatic' is one such group, consisting of executives from the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Dodgers, and household … | Continue reading
Scientists recently detected a new crack forming in one of the world's largest glaciers, the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. Now, NASA has captured the first aerial images of the fissure, and the news isn't good.The post NASA photographs huge new fissure opening in Greenland glac … | Continue reading
Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, speaking today at the company’s annual developers conference, expressed condolences for the victim of a recent murder in Cleveland that was shared in a video on the social networking site. Zuckerberg mentioned Robert Godwin … | Continue reading
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opened his F8 keynote event today with a talk about augmented reality, and he showed an example of what AR games would look like. In the demo on stage in front of thousands at the F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., Zuckerberg showed a fa … | Continue reading
The InfoWars host Alex Jones has been described as a conspiracy theorist, a pro-Trump propagandist, a very rude lunch host, and (by our current president) a broadcaster with an “amazing” reputation. But he’s never been called a performance artist—at least until this week, when hi … | Continue reading
“The first chapter that made sense was to release products that people were familiar with . . . but the unique thing that we’re going to do is we’re not just going to build basic cameras, we’re going to build the first mainstream augmented reality platform.” While Snapchat might … | Continue reading
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Like most poems, “For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ to Love” is best read aloud. There’s audio floating around online of the poet, Warsan Shire, reciting it in a near-whisper, as if she recorded it in a shared space and didn’t want the person in the next room to overhear. It works. I … | Continue reading
If you've been waiting to get your hands (or wrists) on the new Huawei Watch 2, now's your chance. | Continue reading
Netflix has ordered an animated Carmen Sandiego series, io9 reports. The 22-episode series, inspired by the popular ‘80s computer game, will star Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) as Carmen. Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) will co-star as The Player.Each episode in the series will … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a platform for developers to build new experiences into its in-app cameras, saying it would bring augmented reality into the mainstream and position Facebook to reap the majority of the benefits. Speaking on stage at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, CE … | Continue reading
Spotify has announced a new Messenger bot to help users share and find music directly within Facebook’s omnipresent messaging app. The music-streaming giant published a blog post detailing the feature earlier this morning, but it now seems to have pulled it. The new partnership i … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg believes that augmented reality will play an important role in building communities. While the camera has become the center of many of Facebook’s apps, especially as it continues to cannibalize Snapchat, the Facebook chief executive believes there’s more that can … | Continue reading
It’s a become something of a broken record, but Facebook has been on something of a Snapchat copying rampage, adding a variety of camera effects with similar augmented reality filters. But at its F8 conference today, Facebook revealed a larger plan for these cameras: creating an … | Continue reading
Spotify will be launching a bot for Facebook Messenger users that lets friends discover and share music directly in their chats. The bot, which takes advantage of Facebook’s soon-to-launch chat extensions, includes search tools, music recommendations, and sharing functionality f … | Continue reading
Facebook will rely on an army of outside developers to contribute augmented reality image filters and interactive experiences to its new Camera Effects platform. Later today the first effects will become availabe inside Facebook’s Camera feature on smartphones, but the Camera Ef … | Continue reading
When you're browsing online at work, you might sometimes feel like you're engaging in borderline criminal activity – but hey, at least you're not an actual prisoner while you're booking your next vacation while you're on the clock. Two inmates serving sentences in an Ohio prison … | Continue reading
Razer introduced two new earbuds today: the Hammerhead BT and the Hammerhead for iOS. Both models feature Razer’s signature black-and-green color scheme and, of course, Razer’s branding. Both units cost $99.99 and include an in-line remote and mic. The iOS version works with Siri … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of tracing naysayers out there who say it’s “cheating,” or that it doesn’t actually help you learn to draw, but I beg to differ. The best way to learn to draw is by doing, and if it takes using a lightbox or a projector toy to get started, so be it! SketchAR is the … | Continue reading
Theranos has been agreeing to a lot of things to keep it afloat lately. Today, the company once known for its one-drop blood testing tech has agreed to pay out $4.65 million in refunds to Arizonans who purchased blood tests between 2013 and 2016.The company also agreed this week … | Continue reading
Mike Huckabee has received the vindication we’ve all dreamed of one day getting from Comcast: an apology.Comcast has issued a public apology to the former Arkansas governor for missing a scheduled appointment at his home. “We completely understand Governor Huckabee’s frustration … | Continue reading
The new version of Google Earth has been revealed, adding features like a way to check out a random location, interactive tours and more. | Continue reading
One of the biggest hits on Steam is getting its first major patch. Bluehole is updating Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, the studio’s Battle Royale-like online multiplayer game that has servers of 100 people fighting to the death. The patch will address a number of issues that are … | Continue reading
reMarkable is a "paper tablet" and features a “canvas” display that looks and feels like real paper. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, E Ink, and Invention | Continue reading
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against the founder of white supremacist website The Daily Stormer on behalf of a Montana woman who was targeted in an anti-Semitic harassment campaign. The plaintiff, real estate agent Tanya Gersh, alleges that Andrew Anglin en … | Continue reading
I'm bad at mouse movement. When my mouse sensitivity is low, I'm bad. When my mouse sensitivity is high, I'm worse. Seriously, if you need headshots, please look elsewhere. But now at last there's a mouse that can determine exactly how terrible I am, with the power stats!Thermalt … | Continue reading
Remastering a video game is a tricky thing. On the one hand, you want to preserve what made the experience so memorable in the first place. There’s usually a reason why you want to remaster a game, after all. But — and this is especially true of games that were originally release … | Continue reading
More revolving doors at a London venture capital firm. TechCrunch has learned that Ophelia Brown has left LocalGlobe, the VC fund founded by father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein. Read More | Continue reading
Kakerlaken und digitale Technik sind nicht zwingend ein Gegensatz, aber die Insekten sind eben auch klassische Computer-Killer, die Geschichte, die die Jungs von Kotaku ausgegraben haben, kommt also nicht ganz überraschend: unabhängige Reparatur-Dienste... | Continue reading
The Ecobee3 Lite connected thermostat is receiving a software update to make the device compatible with external temperature sensors. The Ecobee3 already ships with one room sensor for $199, but the $169 Lite version never did and still doesn’t. Ecobee says users who already own … | Continue reading
After a nationwide manhunt, alleged killer Steve Stephens is no longer at large. According to a statement by Pennsylvania State Police, Stephens was located by officers in Eerie County and took his own life after a brief pursuit, shortly after 11AM. Police had received a tip that … | Continue reading