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Facebook Search Warrant Appeal Thrown Out By US Court

Facebook challenge to bulk search warrants for customer accounts dismissed by New York court

8 years ago

Google, Twitter, Facebook Pledge To Up Anti-Terror Efforts

Home Secretary Amber Rudd holds meeting with leading tech firms over tackling terrorist content online

8 years ago

Facebook’s Instagram Introduces Business Booking Feature

The photo-sharing app, under Facebook's command, is exploring new ways to make money

8 years ago

Facebook, Google, Twitter Face EU Fines Over Service Terms

European authorities are ready to levy financial penalities on big name tech firms over their terms of service

8 years ago

Facebook Policy Bans Use Of Data For ‘Surveillance’

Facebook now restricts developers from using data for surveillance purposes, after police were found to be using the data to…

8 years ago

Facebook Releases Bryce Canyon Storage And Big Basin AI Design To Open Compute Project

Design specification released for Facebook's new storage platform, coupled with the new AI 'Big Basin' Design

8 years ago

WhatsApp ‘Tests’ Business Messaging System With Startups

WhatsApp is working with Y Combinator to test business messages so Facebook can make some money from its expensive acquisition

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: WhatsApp

Popular messaging app celebrates 8th birthday.

8 years ago

Facebook Revenues Soar As Its Nears 2 Billion Users

Mobile users drive Facebook's Ad revenue and bulging profits

8 years ago

Facebook Takes £400 Million Hit Over VR Lawsuit

Oculus co-founders found guilty of violating non-disclosure agreement with ZeniMax in the company's early days

8 years ago

Android Veteran Hugo Barra Joins Facebook As VR Head

Big name signing to lead Facebook's virtual reality team at Oculus, and welcomed personally onboard by Zuckerberg

8 years ago

Facebook To Build Third Data Centre Outside The US In Denmark

Facebook Data Centre in Odense, Denmark will run on entirely on renewables

8 years ago

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Tells Court That Oculus VR Theft Claims Are ‘Wrong’

Oculus' products are built on its own code, says Facebook chief executive in court testimony

8 years ago

Bounty Hunter Earns £32,5000 Reward For Catching Facebook Bug

Facebook pays out its highest ever reward for PoC behind ImageMagick security flaw

8 years ago

WhatsApp Denies It Has Compromised Encryption With ‘Backdoor’

UPDATED: Researcher says WhatsApp can reissue encryption keys for offline devices, compromising privacy. WhatsApp says there is no backdoor and…

8 years ago

WhatsApp Still Supports BlackBerry & Nokia… For Now

WhatsApp delays end of life for BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones for another six months

8 years ago

Facebook Introduces ‘Instant’ Two-Factor Authentication

The 'instant verification' feature allows users to log into services using their phone number without having to receive a text…

8 years ago

Facebook Under Fire From EU Antitrust Probe Over Data Sharing With WhatsApp

The social networking company has been accused of misleading the EU during its acquisition of WhatsApp

8 years ago

Labour Ridiculed For Wanting To Regulate Algorithms

Companies algorithms should be made transparent to government for industrial regulation to be effective, the party argues

8 years ago

Facebook’s Aquila Drone Crash Was Due To Turbulence

Turbulence caused the Aquila drone to suffer a "structural failure" during its inaugural flight

8 years ago

UK Tech Industry Pressures Government Over Brexit Impact

An open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May raises concerns around the impact leaving the EU will have on the…

8 years ago

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter And Google Will Create Shared Database To Tackle Terror Propaganda

A shared database will be used to flag up content that appears to be trying to spread terror speech

8 years ago

Fake News Campaigns to Increase in Frequency, Security Experts Say

ANALYSIS: With the possibility that fake news may have impacted the US election, people are giving a new look to…

8 years ago

Facebook Developing AI System For Offensive Video Takedown

The social networking giant's battle against offensive videos, nudity, and fake news continues

8 years ago

Facebook To Hire 500 UK Staff Next Year To Boost Engineer Workforce

The expansion comes on the heels of Google's approval of a £1bn UK investment

8 years ago

Facebook Suspends WhatsApp Data Sharing Across EU

Facebook stopped harvesting WhatsApp data in the UK last week, now it's doing the same across Europe

8 years ago

Tech Giants Call For President Trump ‘Dialogue’ And Support For Encryption

Facebook, Amazon, Google and others call on the US president-elect to support encrypted communications, net neutrality

8 years ago

Facebook Claims Record 20Gbps Millimeter-Wave Wireless Connection

Demonstration of how millimeter-wave (MMW) part of spectrum can be used for Internet access in developing world

8 years ago

Web Summit 2016: Facebook CTO Says Priorities For The Next Decade Are Connectivity, AI & VR

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says his firm's technology priorities over the next ten years are getting people connected and offering…

8 years ago

Facebook & WhatsApp Pause Data Sharing In UK After ICO Threats

Facebook and WhatsApp have yet to agree to a commitment to be more transparent over how they collect and use…

8 years ago