In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the beneficent but impaired leader of all of cyberspace. She is—we are to ...

If you filed a claim in Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement, you could soon get a payment, according to the settlement's administrator. Millions of consumers who used Facebook over a 15-year ...

Users on Wednesday reported problems accessing a number of Meta's social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger, according to outage tracking service Downdetector. Reports of ...

Discovering that your Facebook account has been hacked can be a devastating experience. Luckily, though, it's usually easy to recover your account and keep it safe in future by taking a few simple ...

In February 2004, a 19-year-old, flip-flop-wearing Mark Zuckerberg released an online directory of Harvard students. In those days, the internet still felt small. It was mostly about finding webpages, ...

Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Instagram, and other social apps. To do so, parent company Meta on Friday announced a ...

More Facebook users in recent weeks are opening a notification they forgot even existed: A “poke” from a friend. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

In one of the most surprising comebacks of the decade, poking has made a recent resurgence on Facebook. There has been a 13x spike in use of the feature that has been around since Facebook's early ...

In March 2024, Facebook users shared a news of a purported new Facebook policy that would allow Meta, the social media platform's parent company, to gain the rights to do what it wished with their ...

Eduardo Saverin invested US$15,000 in Facebook, then was infamously booted from the venture by Mark Zuckerberg, which was depicted in The Social Network starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield ...

Anurag's interest in technology was sparked around 15 years ago when he first tried a Nokia smartphone, one of those Windows-powered devices. Having only used feature phones up until then, he was ...