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Facebook Gets into Smart Speaker Market with Portal; Can They Be Trusted?

Facebook is jumping into the smart speaker business with Portal. But can you trust Facebook Portal after all the social network’s missteps over the past few years?

By Laura Tucker – Oct 9, 2018

Facebook Security Breach Lands It in Trouble Again

Troubles have continued to mount after a Facebook security breach. It left the personal information of almost fifty million users vulnerable.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 1, 2018

Protect your Facebook Account from Hackers

Your Facebook account contains a lot of information that hackers like to get their hands on. Learn how to protect your Facebook account with these steps.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Sep 26, 2018

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How to Share Your Screen with a Facebook Friend

Facebook added the live-screen sharing features last year. Learn how you can easily share your screen with Facebook friends on Google Chrome.

By Andrew Braun – Sep 16, 2018

Facebook Users’ Trustworthiness Score: Here’s How It Works

Facebook has started assigning its users a hidden “trustworthiness score” for reporting fake news, but there may be more to the story.

By Andrew Braun – Sep 10, 2018

Facebook Teaming Up with NYU to Use AI to Have Faster MRI Exams

Facebook and New York University are working together on a current research project using artificial intelligence to create a faster MRI exam called fastMRI.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 22, 2018

Facebook Asked to Wiretap Messenger and Refuses

Facebook is being asked to wiretap Messenger to help with a criminal case, but they are refusing, saying it would force them to break the encryption.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 20, 2018

What Exactly Is Facebook Doing With AI?

Facebook has been investing a lot of effort on artificial intelligence, and the sheer scale and rate at which AI is added into its products makes it worth a look.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 17, 2018

After Cambridge Analytica, Facebook Still Has Data-Leaking Bugs

It only took a few months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal before a hacker discovered a Facebook bug that could lead to more data leak.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 29, 2018

Facebook Lists Weapon Accessories in a Banned Ads List for Minors

Facebook has decided to reign in their advertising policies and will no longer be directing ads for weapon accessories at minors.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 18, 2018

Facebook’s Troubles Mount as It’s Discovered Private Posts Made Public

If you regularly post to Facebook, you should be worried.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 8, 2018

How the New “Nigelthorn” Facebook Malware Works and How to Avoid It

Facebook has seen a lot of attacks in the past, but the recent malware, referred to as “Nigelthorn,” is particularly nasty for Chrome users.

By Simon Batt – May 22, 2018

Would a Facebook Subscription Model Work?

Facebook is now discussing a new subscription model that might help it avoid future privacy problems, but would a subscription model work? Let’s explore this option.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 16, 2018

What Would An “Unsend” Feature in Messenger Do to Facebook?

Have you ever sent a message that you’d like to take back? Facebook might actually include this feature in Messenger, allowing people to “unsend” messages.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 9, 2018

Use the Facebook Container Extension to Prevent Facebook from Tracking You

If you are a Firefox and Facebook user, you can use the Facebook Container add-on to keep Facebook’s tracking strictly inside its own tab and disable its trackers on external pages.

By Andrew Braun – Apr 7, 2018

How to Stop Facebook from Quietly Collecting Your Phone Call Data

Facebook’s mobile app was found to have collected, and continues to collect, phone call metadata. Here’s how to stop Facebook from collecting your phone call data.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 6, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg: Most Facebook Users Should Assume Their Data Has Been Compromised

When the news of Facebook’s data breach became known, it sent many into a panic. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that most users should assume their data has been compromised.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 6, 2018

How to Prioritize Facebook’s News Feed to See What Matters to You

You probably get so much information on your Facebook news feed that you don’t even want to look at it. This can easily be fixed by prioritizing Facebook’s news feed so that you see what you want first.

By Fabio Buckell – Feb 22, 2018

Facebook Being Used Less, But They’re Not Worried

Facebook has announced that users are now spending around fifty-million hours less time each day on Facebook. But they aren’t worried at all.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 5, 2018

Facebook Moves to Ban Cryptocurrency Ads, Calling Them “Misleading or Deceptive”

If you’re still deciding whether or not to invest in cryptocurrency, Facebook has decided to ban cryptocurrency ads, believing that they are “misleading or deceptive.”

By Laura Tucker – Feb 1, 2018

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A famous African Grey parrot named Alex became the first and only animal to ever ask an existential question about itself—after learning over 100 English words, identifying shapes, and counting objects, Alex looked into a mirror and asked his handler, “What color?” to learn that he was grey

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In 2014, a simple counting glitch known as the “Gangnam Style bug” forced YouTube to completely rewrite its core software architecture—because the site’s engineers had used a 32-bit integer to count video views, never imagining a single music video would surpass 2.1 billion views and completely max out the platform’s counter.

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In the early 1970s, a phone phreak nicknamed “Captain Crunch” became famous for a startling trick: a toy whistle packaged in Cap’n Crunch cereal boxes produced a perfect 2600 Hz tone — the exact frequency AT&T used to signal an idle line — letting him fool the phone system into handing him free long-distance calls

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Sony’s PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly imported over 4,000 of the gaming consoles — sparking an intense military investigation over fears that the systems would be chained together to build a crude, low-cost supercomputer capable of guiding long-range missiles

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When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes’s fingerprick blood analyser toward soldiers in Afghanistan, and the only reason it never reached the battlefield was an Army regulatory officer named David Shoemaker who kept warning the FDA the device was not approved.

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