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Facebook To Convert Five Male Emojis Into Female Characters
Pedestrian, police officer, jogger, swimmer, and surfer emojis are all female in Facebook Messenger’s new emoji set. It’s also adding the ability to set skin tones.
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Chewbacca Mask Mom Dishes On Her Viral Success, And Choice Of Streaming Platform
Facebook says the video, viewed more than 150 million times, wasn’t treated any differently in its system.
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Will Mark Zuckerberg Vote For Peter Thiel Now?
At next month’s Facebook stockholder meeting, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be faced with symbolic vote on a board member who is trying to destroy a media company.
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Twitter Disbands Commerce Team, Ceases Product Development On “Buy” Button
Jack Dorsey puts Dick Costolo–era project on back burner as Twitter refocuses on core product.
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Twitter Effectively Makes Tweets Longer With Handful Of New Tweaks
Photos, polls, quote tweets, reply @names, and GIFs will no longer count toward Twitter’s 140-character limit.
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Finding The Meaning Of Artificial Intelligence At Google I/O
Can anyone in this group of advanced programmers explain the tech world’s hottest trend?
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Mark Zuckerberg: I Know Many Conservatives Don’t Trust Our Platform Is Unbiased
Facebook CEO holds meeting with more than a dozen conservative leaders, says he wants to build trust.
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Here’s Everything That Happened At Google IO
“Things previously thought to be impossible may in fact be possible. We look forward to building this future together with all of you.”
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Failure To Accurately Represent Trending Caused Facebook Unnecessary Pain
Two former Trending curators describe a system with safeguards against bias, but not completely foolproof.
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BET CEO Debra Lee Joins Twitter Board
She’ll be the company’s first black board member.
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Twitter Reportedly To Eliminate Photos And Links From Character Count
Twitter product change reported. Public exalts.
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Facebook’s Own Legal Policies Keeping Trending Accusers Anonymous
Facebook targets anonymous “Trending” sources while keeping them under NDA.
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Facebook Wants To Know If You’ve Moved Your Sharing To Snapchat
Is Facebook worried about the decline in “original” sharing on its platform? Survey says …
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Ozlo The AI Chatbot Wants To Help You Find Coffee And Food
With $14 million in funding led by the likes of Greylock Partners, this new bot will find you a place to eat, scan the menu, and show you how to get there.
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Louis C.K. Questions Value Of Being On Our Phones All The Time
“I don’t like the way it feels anymore,” the comedian said on Conan last night.
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LinkedIn Exploring Its Own Version Of Facebook’s Instant Articles
Exploratory talks with publishers in the works.
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Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational
Learning language from the language of love.
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Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Sharing Decline Reports As Facebook Crushes Earnings
“Overall sharing is up across Facebook,” said the CEO. But reports were not disputed.
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Facebook Quietly Live-Streamed Its First Professional Sports Broadcast Over The Weekend
Using Live API, the National Women’s Soccer League live-streamed a game on Orlando Pride player Alex Morgan’s Facebook page.
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As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars
The social platforms are all competing for quality video, but only a select few can deliver it. Which means if platforms want the programming, they’ll have to pay up.












