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How to turn off Facebook’s expanded facial recognition features
Facebook takes advantage of facial recognition in several ways.
How to find out if your private Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
Following the scandalous revelation that Cambridge Analytica exploited the Facebook platform to collect data on undecided US voters through an inconspicuous quiz app, the social network has now released a web-based tool to check if your account may have been exploited.
Mark Zuckerberg has pointedly dismissed Tim Cook’s ideas about Facebook
Facebook's chief executive took issue with recent comments by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who criticized Facebook's privacy practices amid a scandal around its data practices and the social network's role in political campaigns.
What privacy entails, in Steve’s own words
Steve Jobs was a man of many great quotes, and all of them good.
Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update option
Facebook is running a limited trial of a new Voice Clips feature.
Facebook admits Messenger is “too cluttered,” promises massive streamlining this year
In the words of David Marcus, who is Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging products, the company's official mobile Messenger app for iPhone and iPad has become “too cluttered.”
Apple forgot to strip iOS 11’s non-functioning Facebook Like button from Game Center
You may have noticed that Facebook liking is no longer available in Game Center.
Facebook is rolling out a Snooze button
Facebook on Friday announced it's begun rolling out a brand new Snooze button in users' News Feed following a period of testing in September.
Twitterrific unveils iPhone X-optimized black theme and other new features
Developer The Iconfactory on Wednesday announced an update for its Twitterrific app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, bringing a bevy of new features, enhancements and fixes including a true black theme that not only looks great on iPhone X, but also helps save power.
Posting tweetstorms has been made easier with Twitter’s new Threads feature
Twitter on Tuesday announced a new Threads feature in its mobile app for iPhone and iPad, making it a lot easier to post so-called tweetstorms to the micro-blogging service.
Apple promotes Amazon’s Prime Video Apple TV app with paid tweets, tvOS splash screen
Following its arrival on tvOS App Store earlier this week, Apple in a pretty unusual move has since been advertising immediate availability of Amazon's long-expected Prime Video app for Apple TV with promoted tweets on Twitter, AppleInsider noted Friday.