Two bitter tech rivals get along for a change, making your streaming life a lot less complicated.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Facebook hasn’t had a hit show yet for its long-form video hub Watch, so it’s got a new plan: digging up some deceased cult favorites from television. First up, Facebook is making all episodes of Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly free on Facebook Watch. There’ll be simultaneous viewing Watch Parties where […]
Facebook adds free TV shows Buffy, Angel, Firefly to redefine ...
Andrew Mason, the founder of Groupon who was fired as CEO in 2013 and has since gone on to launch new startups, proves he’s still a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur.
Gadget Lab Podcast: Andrew Mason on Descript and Life, ...
Black Friday wasn’t just a boon for e-commerce retailers, it helped the mobile app stores break new records, too. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the combined consumer spending across the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play on Black Friday 2018 reached $75.9 million – a record for the most ever spent in […]
U.S. mobile app stores had their biggest day ever on ...
Plus: Samsung's bendy phone, Apple's MacBook Air, and Microsoft's Surface Headphones.
Everything WIRED Editors Loved This Month: Phones, Drones, and RoboVacs
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that it hired an opposition research firm with close ties to the Republican party, but its relationship with Definers Public Affairs isn’t the company’s only recent contract work with deeply GOP-linked strategy firms. According to sources familiar with the project, Facebook also contracted with Targeted Victory, described as […]
Facebook quietly hired Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory
Two weeks after the New York Times revealed Facebook’s controversial work with Republican opposition research firm Definers Public Affairs, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has changed her story in significant ways. The latest revelation: Sandberg herself directed Facebook’s communications team to probe the financial ties of George Soros, left-leaning billionaire and frequent political target of the […]
Sheryl Sandberg knew more of Facebook’s work with Definers than ...
No one wants to post silly, racy, or vulnerable Stories if they’re worried their boss, parents, and distant acquaintances are watching. So to get people sharing more, and more authentically, Instagram will let you share to fewer people. Today after 17 months of testing, Instagram is globally launching Close Friends on iOS and Android over […]
Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends ...
The photo-sharing platform now offers the ability to post photos and stories that are only visible to a tight circle of followers of your choosing.
Instagram ‘Close Friends’: What It Is and How to Use ...
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created a system that can reproduce paintings from a single photo, allowing museums and art lovers to snap their favorite pictures and print new copies complete with paint textures. Called RePaint, the project uses machine learning to recreate the exact colors of each painting and […]