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Facebook will enable users to see and control data it receives about them from outside apps and websites that use the company’s ads and analytics tool.

If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. That seems to be the clich? that many large media companies are hiding under as the NewFronts get underway. This year, Gannett (parent of USAToday), Bloomberg, the Washington Post and Hearst are all sitting on the sidelines of the IAB’s annual showcase where…

Facebook’s Oculus Go headset is really the first of its kind: an affordable, simple and powerful way to explore virtual reality.

Facebook seems to be testing a new tool that would allow users to manually identify whether a post includes hate speech. For a brief time this morning, every post in a Facebook user’s News Feed displayed a question: “Does this post contain hate speech?” The user was then given the option to click “yes” or…

The tech giant, trying to navigate an age of heightened political disagreement, struggles to tame a workplace culture of nonstop debate. Often organized by small groups of employees, the discussions have turned the tech giant’s headquarters into something resembling a college campus.

For the national launch of vitaminwater active, which was released regionally last year, the Coca-Cola brand wanted to let audiences know the sports drink is not just for fitness fanatics. The brand turned to Los Angeles independent agency Zambezi for a personification of its positioning as “a sports drink for the rest of us.” Zambezi’s…

Facebook introduced a revamped version of its AR Studio for Facebook Camera at its F8 annual developer conference in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday. The social network debuted AR Studio at F8 2017 last April with the goal of accelerating augmented reality efforts across the social network. Engineering director Ficus Kirkpatrick detailed the changes to AR…

Augmented reality has arrived on Facebook’s Messenger Platform, the social network announced Tuesday at its F8 annual developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Facebook vice president of messaging products David Marcus wrote in a Newsroom post that there are currently more than 300,000 active Messenger bots and over 200,000 developers on Messenger Platform, adding that…

For many baseball players, life without the game is a daunting concept. Starting when they’re barely teenagers, baseball often becomes a year-round priority for rising baseball stars, who typically leave backup plans on the back burner. Astros catcher Evan Gattis, for example, provided a rare glimpse into life without baseball after he spent years bouncing…

The rolling countryside, the dapple of light through tree branches, the little moments of romance you pass on a street corner–they’re visual experiences many of us take for granted when riding in a car. And for those who can’t see, the idea of looking out the window of a moving vehicle symbolizes the wide range…