Qualcomm and Facebook team for 60GHz 802.11 ay WiFi
802.11 ay mmWave, 10 Gbps+ speeds
It is not every day you hear that Facebook and Qualcomm go out out in public announcing a plan to work together to deliver high speed internet connectivity with Facebook Terragraph technology through the development of a multi-node wireless system based on 60GHz technology from Qualcomm. This can result in 10Gbps speeds.
IBM expert explains why Facebook needs blockchain
It is a pretty good idea
Facebook has said that it is forming a new team to focus on blockchain technology, and IBM’s Blockchain expert says it is a good idea.
Cambridge Analytica told to hand over US data
UK watchdog growls and sends an angry missive
Britain’s data privacy watchdog has growled and told Cambridge Analytica to hand over all the personal information it holds on a US academic.
Oculus Go is out in 23 countries
$199 in the US, €219 in Europe
the Facebook announced Oculus Go standalone VR back in October and yesterday, at the F8 conference, the company announced that it started shipping it to 23 countries.
Facebook working out how to limit EU law's impact
This is going to end well
Social notworking site Facebook is squaring up to take on the EU by directly attempting to circumvent its new privacy laws to minimise its effect on the company.
Never mind Facebook - look at AOL and Yahoo
While the focus is on Facebook, AOL and Yahoo are reading your emails again
While politicians are pretending to attack Facebook over its sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica, it seems that AOL and Yahoo have been quietly getting on with the serious business of reading your emails while no one is paying them any attention.
US senate committe gives Zuckerburg an easy ride
Easy to answer conspiracy theories
We expected Mark Zuckerburg to get an easy ride from US senators yesterday after it was revealed that Facebook had given most of them on average $6,000 lobbying money over the years, but some of the questions he received were just daft. Our favourite was an easy-to-refute conspiracy theory that Facebook listens in on your conversations via microphones to display relevant ads.
Woz quits Facebook over privacy concerns
Users get none of the profits back
The brains behind Apple, dancing queen and all round good bloke Steve Wozniak has quit the social notworking site Facebook over growing concern for the carelessness with which Facebook and other Internet companies treat the private information of users.
Facebook deletes Russian troll factory accounts
Hundreds of accounts closed
Facebook has deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a “troll factory” indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 US election campaign.
Why it is probably a good idea to delete Facebook from your phone
It records your phone details
Even if you think keeping Facebook on your computer is a good idea, it might not be sensible to keep the software on your mobile phone.