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Hackers temporarily took over Facebook’s accounts on Twitter and Instagram on Friday through a third-party platform, raising concerns about the security of the social networks. Both accounts are back to normal. Hacker group OurMine…

Facebook is expanding the way people in disaster zones can request help. Earlier this week, the social networking giant extended part of the platform’s “Crisis Response” widget to WhatsApp. The move would mean people in areas with poor…

Facebook’s Libra stablecoin would be a serious threat to WeChat Pay, the payment service’s parent company Tencent admitted in a recent blockchain whitepaper. Asian news outlet EjinSight reported on Oct. 24 that in the document Tencent…

Facebook has experienced substantial criticism over its plans to create a cryptocurrency system. Visa and Mastercard have announced their departure from Facebook’s Libra project in a potentially fatal blow to the social network company’s…

U.S. payments processor PayPal said on Friday it was leaving Libra Association, the entity managing the Facebook-led effort to build global digital currency Libra, making it the first member to exit the group. PayPal said it would forgo…

When you hear about virtual reality, whether or not you’ve ever used it, you probably think of video games that transport you to a far-off space ship, or to an underwater cavern, or some mythical dungeon. Ready Player One, or Black Mirror.…

The VR startups beating Facebook at its own game Most of the people I spoke with at Facebook’s Oculus Connect see the proliferation of virtual reality as a foregone conclusion, one that’s just a matter of timing at this point. For …

Let us connect some dots. Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it snapped up neural-interface pioneers CTRL-Labs for somewhere north of $500 million, and announced that its own massively…

Given how slowly Washington lawmakers have taken to devise a coherent, informed view of cryptocurrency, the Chair of the House Financial Services Committee’s rapid leap to action last week over Facebook’s ambitious Libra project was…

Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners. Just hours after the social media giant unveiled early plans for the Libra cryptocurrency, French Finance…