Highlights: Facebook introduces option to let Android users keep their location tracking in check. No changes have been made to iOS version of the app. Facebook will send alerts to Android users once the feature is rolled out to them.   Giving mor...

Facebook has added a new feature just for today that will let you add your photos and videos to a single collaborative story called ‘Diwali Story’, apart from your personal story. The collective Diwali Story will include photos and videos added b...

Facebook has issued an update on the previously reported hack in which the company had estimated that accounts of nearly 50 million people were compromised after cybercriminals used a flaw in the platform’s ‘View As’ feature. According to an offi...

A previously undisclosed Facebook bug has erased the Live videos of some of the platform’s users. According to a report by TechCrunch, the glitch deleted some users’ Live videos if they tried to post them to their Story and the News Feed after fi...

Facebook is now rolling out the 3D photos feature, which was originally unveiled during the company’s F8 Conference. The feature was not extensively demoed or detailed at the event but it is now being rolled out for all iPhone 7 Plus and above us...

In August, a researcher dug out a code in Facebook and Messenger Android apps suggesting a Facebook-owned communication device. Almost 40 days after the tip, Facebook has launched Portal and Portal+, two AI-powered video calling devices. The soci...

At its F8 conference in May, Facebook announced that it is working at a dating service called Facebook Dating which will be launched as a part of its main website. Now, The Verge has reported that the company is doing a trial run of the servic...

Facebook has unveiled a new tool for developers, which aims to automatically fix bugs. Called SapFix, it uses Facebook’s AI to help generate fixes for identified bugs, which are then proposed to engineers for approval and deployment to product...

A new study conducted by Pew Research Center has found that Facebook might be losing its popularity, possibly owing to the multiple user data and privacy related fiascos that the social media giant found itself embroiled in these past few mont...

Back in June, Facebook announced that there are now over 2 billion users on the social media platform. In order to make its service more engaging, the company is testing a new label to identify what its users that are not friends have in comm...

Facebook is reportedly working on its own speech recognition technology called 'Aloha'. More information about Facebook’s ongoing efforts to develop a smart speaker with a display and a dedicated speech recognition tool has been outed by TechCr...

To increase transparency, Facebook has been taking significant steps to give people more information about Pages of organisations and the ads that it is currently running on the platform. This increased the accountability of advertisers and he...

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked Indian telecom service providers to explore and suggest ways to block popular social media apps, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram, in the interest of the public during situations wh...

Ever since Facebook was caught employing lax data protection policies for its customer’s information, the company has been treading lightly. Their goodwill with the people is on thin ice, which is probably why the company delayed the launch of...

In its attempt to take on Chinese video social network app Musical.ly, Facebook had earlier announced a feature, Lip Sync Live, that enables users to lip sync to music videos while doing a live broadcast. It seems that the social media giant i...

Facebook is cutting off the Application Programming Interface (API) access for apps. No, not all apps. The company is revoking access for the “hundreds of thousands” of inactive apps that have not submitted for its new app review process. Af...

As Facebook registered a marginal growth in the second quarter of 2018, the social media giant had a silver lining to highlight in the form of the announcement that 2.5 billion people around the world used at least one of its apps: Facebook, I...