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Cartoons About Our Relationship To Facebook Are Clever But Depressing

Does Facebook ever leave you feeling like you’re alone in a crowd? Like you’re having more of a relationship with a website than the people you’re connecting with? Then these illustrations might look uncomfortably familiar. Polish cartoonist and illustrator Pawel Kuczynski creates editorial cartoons about the role of Facebook, taking a critical eye to certain…

Oculus Doesn’t Know How To Build a VR Game Controller Yet

Some of the biggest brains behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset are on stage right now chatting about the future of VR, and they’ve got some bittersweet news. They just don’t yet see any way to build a proper controller to go with their incredible headset. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-oculus-keynote-live-right-here-right-now-1637183320 Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and famed video…

This Is The New Oculus Rift Prototype: Crescent Bay

No, you still can’t buy a consumer version of the amazing Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, but it’s getting really, really close! Oculus just announced a brand-new prototype at the company’s Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles, and they claim it’s a GIANT leap forward. While we don’t have full tech specs yet, it’s higher…

Judge: Yes, You Can Serve Legal Papers Over Facebook

It used to be that, when you wanted to slap someone with a lawsuit, you’d have to hunt them down the old-fashioned way—on foot, just like mom used to do. But now, a Family Court official has ruled for the very first time in the United States (it’s already common practice in Europe) that yes,…

Facebook Will Try to Stop Showing You Old, Irrelevant Posts

Facebook just announced its latest plan to fix Newsfeed, promising to show more timely content. Out with the old, in with the relevant and new. It looks like the change was spurred by everyone complaining when old crap kept popping to the top of their Newsfeeds: We’ve heard feedback that there are some instances where…

Report: Facebook Prepping New App for Private Sharing Called “Moments”

Facebook is reportedly testing an app codenamed “Moments” so people can share posts with a smaller circle of friends. TechCrunch reports multiple sources have confirmed the existence of this app, including one who has seen a live internal version. Here’s what they know so far: The product is currently being “dogfooded” by Facebook employees to…

Facebook’s Revamped App Settings Page Makes It Easy To Unhook Apps

If you head over to your Facebook Apps Settings page, you’ll be shocked to know how many useless apps you’ve got attached to your account. My account, for instance, is hooked up to 448 apps (there’s something called “are u in love?!?!?

The Microsoft Deal Could Finally Put Minecraft on Oculus Rift

Microsoft’s $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, the company that makes Minecraft, is still just a few minutes old. Lots of debris to sort through! But there’s one glimmer of hope for anxious Minecraft fans. The deal could finally pave the way to putting Minecraft where it truly belongs: On the Oculus Rift. While Microsoft…

Grandmas on Facebook Are Tagging Themselves Grandmaster Flash

Here’s a great social media trend: Grandmas on Facebook are accidentally tagging themselves as Grandmaster Flash. Apparently Nana didn’t get the message. To be fair, it’s easy to tag the wrong name in a post, thanks to Facebook’s auto-tagging feature. You’ve done it before, but the difference is you almost definitely correct your post. A…

Facebook’s Messenger App Logs Way More Data Than You Realize

Ever since Facebook first started pushing users over to its standalone messaging app (whether they liked it or not), there have been cries of outrage over what’s seemed like an inordinately large amount of required permissions. And while there’s still no indication that Facebook has any sort of bad intent, the company is collecting a…

Facebook Is Testing Self-Destructing Posts

Spotted by The Next Web, Facebook is testing a new feature that would allow people to schedule a time for their posts to be scrubbed from their timeline. This “Choose Expiration” feature lets you choose a life expectancy from 1 hour up to 7 days, based on user screenshots. Facebook has said they were testing…

Play Counts Are Coming To Facebook Videos This Week

Facebook is adding two new features to be more like Youtube. Starting this week, the social network will start displaying video view counts, so you can instantly tell how popular a certain clip is. You will also be presented with a list of related videos, just like YouTube, once you finish watching something. Facebook announced…

A County-By-County Map Of NFL Allegiance

Facebook’s Data Science team has released its 2014 NFL American Fandom Map, to mark the beginning of the NFL season. The map uses Facebook “likes” to determine the most popular NFL team in every U.S. county. The result is “one of the most comprehensive samples of sports fanship ever collected.” Even if you’re not a…

Facebook has backtracked on the only feature that differentiated its Slingshot app from competitors like Snapchat. When you receive a photo or a video now, you’re not required to send something back to “unlock” it. Senders can now choose whether they want you to send them a shot in return to unlock their content. [GigaOm]

The Complete Guide to Locking Down Facebook Privacy for Good

Facebook’s privacy settings are notorious for being convoluted and downright confusing—even Zuck’s own kin have had issues. Which is why Facebook has officially rolled out a “privacy checkup” to help you make sure you’re sharing exactly what you want. But since the checkup only goes so deep, here’s how to make sure your Facebook privacy…

The Final Version of the Oculus Rift Could Be As Cheap As $200

The version of the Oculus Rift that you or I might buy could sell for as cheap as $200, according to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. Luckey told Eurogamer that Oculus plans to sell its eventual consumer version for between $200 and $400, though he noted that may change based on scale, pre-orders, and a number…

Facebook Is Down, Here Are Some Coping Mechanisms (Update: It’s Back!)

Facebook is down (again)! Who knows for how long? Honestly it’ll probably be back by the time you read this post. But just in case, here’s a Facebook-like experience to get you through. A compilation of ice bucket fails! Someone’s cute baby! An ad for a t-shirt with your name on it! Opinions about politics!…

You Can Now Send a Netflix Rec to a Friend in a Facebook Message

Netflix indecision is the worst, so from time to time you’ll ask your friends what they’re watching. And then you forget what they told you and you’re back at square one. Now Netflix is making your life easier, by letting you recommend a show or movie to a friend directly from Netflix in a Facebook…

What separates a social network from a messaging application? The EU is about to find out, having sent a 70-page long questionnaire to competitors and customers of Facebook to work out if its WhatsApp purchase is legit in terms of competition law.

Keywords Are Going To Make Facebook Search on Mobile a Lot Better

Search on Facebook sucks so hard it would be funny if it wasn’t frustrating. Now it looks like Facebook is finally doing something about it, so allow me a minute bounce around my living room in joy. The social network is testing a feature for its mobile app that lets people search through old posts…