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Today’s Facebook iOS Update Brings Chat Heads to Your iPhone

Upset that you won’t be able to know the joys of your friends’ floating, disembodied heads on your screen, iPhone users? Fret no more, because while you won’t be getting the entire Facebook Home experience, the Chat Heads feature should be hitting iOS devices sometime later today. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-facebook-chat-heads-5993646 The update was announced by Facebook CTO…

Why Your Twitter Friends Are More Interesting Than You

Ever felt you can’t quite match up to the people you follow on Twitter? While you’re tweeting about that lunchtime cheese sandwich, their feeds are full of elegant witticisms, important-sounding conferences and bungee jumps. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault – your Twitter friends are just more interesting than you. Sociologists have long known that…

Facebook Is Talking to Apple About Making Facebook Home for the iPhone

According to Bloomberg, Facebook is currently in talks with Apple to bring Facebook Home to the iPhone. Mind you, that doesn’t mean we should expect Facebook Home to actually come to the iPhone (as that seemingly wouldn’t jive with Apple’s MO) but it does show Facebook’s obvious desire to bring more Facebooking to more phones.…

It’s Super Easy To Try Facebook Home on Your Unsupported Android Phone

Facebook Home is here, and although it’s not tied to its flagship hardware, the list of phones that officially support it is kind of underwhelming. If the phone you have isn’t listed, have no fear: you can try out Facebook Home too, and the workaround is pretty easy. https://gizmodo.com/go-get-facebook-home-for-android-now-5994518 The process is almost identical to…

I Love This Girl Who Splices Herself Into Awesome Facebook Cover Photos of Movies and TV Shows

Like the wonderful Libby Cooper before her, this girl is just beyond awesome. She remixes her Facebook Cover Photo so that her profile picture pops up seamlessly in movie sequences, TV shows and video games. It’s perfect. https://gizmodo.com/this-girl-has-the-best-facebook-cover-photos-5972714 Anyone with that kind of dedication to this kind of silliness will always be worthy of a…

Go Get Facebook Home for Android Now

Facebook Home for Android just went live. In addition to using it on the newly available HTC First, you’ll be able to get it on “select” Android phones including the HTC One, HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II. Go get your homescreen on. [Google Play] https://gizmodo.com/go-get-facebook-home-for-android-now-5994518

Chat Heads Are Now In the Facebook Messenger App for Android

The weirdly named Chat Heads feature was a big focus on the new Facebook phone. But just like the “Home” launcher itself, you won’t need an HTC First to get it. The Facebook Messenger app for Android just got an update will full Chat Head functionality. [Google Play via The Verge] https://gizmodo.com/what-are-facebook-chat-heads-5993646

Mark Zuckerberg’s teamed up with tech execs and venture capitalists to launch a political advocacy group called FWD.us.

Facebook Home Review: Surrender Yourself Unto Zuck

Facebook Home isn’t a Facebook Phone, nor is it really “a bunch of apps,” or a new operating system. It’s an admission: Facebook means a lot to me, and is an interesting view of my life—and I want to look at it all the time, everywhere I go. If that sounds like you, Home is…

Facebook Apologized to a Mom After Accidentally Banning Her Twice for Posting Breastfeeding Pictures

Facebook doesn’t like boobs (even when they’re just elbows) so much that it banned a mother from the social network for posting pictures of her breastfeeding her children. What’s interesting is that Kemp’s photos weren’t especially revealing (in the explicit sense of the word) and that Facebook actually allows photos of breastfeeding to be posted.…

Word is that Facebook is shutting down the leaked version of Home. Ours is still working. For now anyway.

You Can Try a Leaked, Janky Version of Facebook Home Right Now

Facebook home won’t charge into the Google Play store in all its launcher-replacement glory until April 12. But if you need to see it right now, you can satiate your sick urge with a pre-release leak unearthed by Modaco. The apks were ripped out of a pre-release HTC First ROM, and are a little buggy,…

5 Best Facebook Home Alternatives for Android

Facebook Home, the social network’s new user interface for Android, won’t be available for download until April 12th. Even when it hits the Google Play Store, Home will only run on 7 phones, one of which is the newly-released HTC First that has it preloaded. Fortunately, you can get a more immersive Facebook experience on…

Mark Zuckerberg Talks Home, the Future of Sharing and Life Outside Facebook

On the day Facebook launched its new software for Android, Home, WIRED scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg in order to chat about the product and what the future holds. Here are some choice cuts from the Big Blue’s head honcho, before you go read the whole thing. On the motivations behind Home: Facebook accounts…

What Facebook’s Real Facebook Home Would Look Like

Facebook announced a phone! No, Facebook just announced Facebook Home. Facebook announced a home? No, it’s just a home screen. Hmm… what would a real Facebook home actually look like? The guys at Joy of Tech wondered just that and created a comic that shows what Facebook distilled into a home would look like. Foundation…

Why Your Shitty Android Phone Won’t Get Facebook Home

So Facebook Home is coming to Android phones. But just the good Android phones. The HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II, and the new HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and HTC First for now. That’s it, that’s the list. If your phone is more than a year old, no…

Excited about the new Facebook phone, iPhone users? Well, too bad—apparently, it won’t be coming to iOS any time soon.

What Are Facebook Chat Heads?

One of the centerpieces of Facebook’s new interface are “chat heads,” Facebook’s vision for the way that we should do messaging. Sounds fun! But what are they, exactly? And will they really change how we communicate? Chat heads are Facebook Home’s chat and messaging interface… As the Zuck said during today’s press conference, phones are…

HTC First: Pure Facebook Phone (Update: Hands On)

The HTC First is a new smartphone that’s deeply integrated with Facebook Home. The AT&T phone runs on a modified version of Jelly Bean and it’s the only phone to come pre-loaded with Facebook Home. Facebook Home is the rumored Facebook phone we’ve been hearing about for what seems like forever now. It basically replaces…

The Facebook Phone: It’s Finally Sorta Real (Update: Eyes-On)

We’ve been talking about it for years now—half dread, half excitement—and now it’s no longer just our imaginations. The Facebook Phone is as real as it’s probably ever going to get: it’s called Facebook Home a complete Android takeover that converts your smartphone. It’s important to know what Facebook Home, “the Facebook Phone,” isn’t. Facebook…