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Facebook's mobile app now supports Tor

A little more than a year ago, Facebook made the rather surprising decision to allow users to access its website directly through Tor, and now the company is expanding on...

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Facebook is finally ditching Flash in favor of HTML5

Flash is dying a slow death, but it's dying nonetheless. The outdated, vulnerability-riddled multi-media platform has reached the point where even Adobe itself is trying to kill it off, but...

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You don't even need to be online to use Facebook anymore

Facebook is so focused on being connected that it wants users to be connected even when they're not connected. This week, the company will be rolling out a new feature...

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Facebook's standalone news app has been launched

After months of rumors, Facebook has finally launched Notify, its own standalone news app. Similar to Twitter, but with a heavier focus on breaking news, Notify sends notifications (hence the...

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Facebook is making video ads load faster in developing countries

Video advertisements are much more effective, and therefore more valuable, than their static counterparts, but this comes at the cost of loading more slowly on weaker connections or low-end devices....

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Facebook has started the process of killing off online news publishers

Facebook already redirects hundreds of millions of people to news websites every day, so why not simplify the process and start hosting the news articles on Facebook directly? That's exactly...

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Facebook's new Shopping section could spell trouble for Amazon

Whether you're on your computer or your smartphone, Facebook wants to be the digital hub where you spend most of your time, the nexus where you can access all of the most...

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Facebook is helping journalists monitor what's trending with Signal

Journalists can't write about whatever pops into their heads and still be successful, they have to write about stories and topics that are trending with the masses at the time, but...

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Facebook did a study on how people convey laughter on the Internet

While most of us would assume that "LOL" is the most common way to convey laughter on the Internet, but according to some interesting data that Facebook published through its...

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Anthology is Facebook's attempt to make ads enjoyable to watch

Few things on the Internet are as universally hated as advertisements, but history has shown that people are much more accepting of ads, and therefore more likely to actually watch...

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