It won’t be a lie if we say that screenshotting has become a habit nowadays. How else are we supposed to save those hilarious memes and puns that pop up on our feeds, usually without any warning? But, at the same time, the feature can be a serious breach of privacy. So, Facebook is looking […]
Since childhood, many of us have had fun tricking our eyes and our brains. Magicians use illusions to shock and awe crowds in a theater or the streets of Las Vegas. People have always found joy in the mystical wonders of an optical illusion. In contrast, one mom shared a picture of her daughter at […]
If you’re concerned about how much social media giant Facebook knows about you, then you’ll be horrified at this: Facebook can now track everything you do, even when you’re not on the site. This is how you can manage it. (1) Facebook Can Now Track Everything In case you still don’t believe me, I’ll say […]
Telling the family that their loved one had died is highly stressful, even devastating, for the doctor bearing the bad news. Their choice of words could severely impact the grieving family, but they must be said in a timely fashion. That means that the doctor goes from trying to save the dying patient to soon […]
Have you ever been talking with someone, either face-to-face or over the phone, and they’ve mentioned a product they like, a show they’ve started watching, or a new subscription service they’re trying out? Chances are you have- that’s just a part of everyday conversation. But have you ever been scrolling through Facebook or Instagram after that […]
In quite a bizarre discovery, a chatbot powered by Meta recently said Mark Zuckerberg was “too creepy and manipulative.” The new chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was rolled out on August 5th. This chatbot is a major part of the efforts put up by the social media company toward AI. Meta plans on instituting technology that […]
Do you still have your Facebook account? If so, how often do you use it? If you answered yes to the first question and “hardly ever” to the second, take this as your hint to delete your account. VICE recently published a leaked document from Facebook engineers that proves that they actually have no way […]
Since the dawn of Bitcoin, the concept of cryptocurrencies has boomed in popularity across the globe. More and more cryptocurrencies have since been developed. Well, now there are even various types of coins that have been developed that serve a particular function. With all the variations, one might have wondered when Facebook and other social […]
Facebook, or Meta as it referred to know, has agreed to pay a sum of $90 million to settle a lawsuit that goes back a decade. The lawsuit had alleged that the social media platform was tracking the internet activity of users even after they had logged out. A preliminary settlement was filed on Monday […]
By now, Facebook is no stranger to massive privacy breaches. Over half a billion users’ data was posted online in a low-level hacking forum. The company originally dismissed this hack, claiming this breach happened in 2019. Although the phone numbers, full names, locations, bios, birthdays, and email addresses of their users are still public. [1] […]
You’ve likely heard about the Facebook data breach that happened over the weekend. If you haven’t, I’ll get you up to speed: Some posted information on 503 million Facebook users in a hacker forum online, and Facebook won’t be telling you if you’re one of them. (1) Here’s what you can do about it. Facebook […]
$650,000 for an ultra-high-tech yacht is not an exorbitant price tag. But, there’s a catch: this one is in the metaverse – a virtual universe for a digital game. In other words, the yacht does not exist in reality and no living person can ever sail on it physically. Only players inside the game called […]