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Pinterest has hired
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Pinterest has hired former Facebook and Apple Engineer Scott Goodson to improve its platform. Scott Goodson has been hired as the head of Pinterest’s core experience, task along with leading the social network’s mobile platform and web teams. Although Scoot Goodson was not a high-profile employee during his time at

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Facebook Moments App
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Facebook, The Social Networking Giant introduced a new app called “Moments App” to quickly share your photos privately. Syncing photos with the Moments App lets you easily share your photos privately with friends that are in them and similarly you can get access to photos taken by them. Will Ruben,

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Facebook and Oculus (the Virtual reality gaming company) unveiled the first commercial version of virtual reality goggles called Oculus Rift on Thursday at an event in San Francisco. They also showed a new virtual reality controller called Oculus Touch, which looks like a pair of half-moons that can be gripped

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Direct Messages
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Twitter has unveiled various updates this week and now they have unveiled a new update that will remove the 140 character limitation from the Direct Messages to 10,000 characters. But the character limit for regular tweets will remain to be 140 character. Sachin Agarwal, who is Twitter’s product manager for

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Facebook Messenger
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Soon after hitting the mark of one billion downloads on Android, Facebook unveils its first game on Facebook Messenger called “Doodle Draw Game” which is available for both Android and iOS platforms. Doodle Draw Game is the first true game to be made available after the launch in April for

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eiffel tower paris AI
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Facebook – The Social Networking Giant has opened a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris with an objective of enhancing the way the users associate with the world’s largest social network. This is the third such lab in the world set up by Facebook after two operating labs in the

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Facebook Introduced In-App Keyword Search Engine
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There is no need for you to Google with the newly developed feature of Facebook. The most popular social media site all over the world seems to be taking one step forward with its feature. What is it? It is none other than the in-app keyword search engine. The brand

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Algorithm Only Slightly Affects the News You Can See on Your Timeline
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Facebook said that it does not sort out your newsfeed that much. The social media site conducted a study with its most political users (about 10 million political Facebook users). Their study found out that while it is true that Facebook’s algorithm impacts what kinds of news you see in

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Echo Mechanism on Facebook Is Not As Scary As We Think
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It has been so long since social theorists and political scientists fretted about how the internet can polarize and even flatten democratic discourse. With the help of advanced technology, Google, Facebook and others now give suggestion regarding content based according on what the people enjoyed before. Due to this, some

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Facebook Provides Free Internet in India, but Implements Restrictions
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Recently, Facebook loosened its stranglehold on Internet.org, its free internet service that it provides in India, Tanzania, Colombia, Kenya, Ghana, and Zambia. This is by allowing access to any website free via the Internet.org service with a premise that these websites don’t use JavaScript, HTTPS, among other things. Facebook offers

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