Before the billions: Video shows young, beer-swilling Zuckerberg
Interview from 2005 provides a glimpse into the early, free-wheeling days of social media giant Facebook. Believe it or not, Zuck didn't always want to rule the world.
Conceptor Soul time tracker shows how much time you’re spending with friends
Meet the Concepter Soul, a new wearable heralded as the world's first time-tracking platform for your social interactions. It's now available on Indiegogo.
Now you can replace your face with a giant cat emoji in Snapchat videos
Snapchat has updated its Android and iOS apps to allow you to move emojis around within your videos, hopefully helping users get a little more creative.
Pinterest just dropped a revamped iOS app that will load 3× faster than before
Pinterest has completely revamped its iOS app. The new app not only shows off a new design, but it will launch three times faster than the previous app.
College students have a new career starter app with LinkedIn Student
Focusing on college students who are just starting to build their resume and career search, LinkedIn Student launches as a mobile app for U.S. students.
Viber flicks on encryption, adds Hidden Chats feature
Viber's more than 711 million users can now enjoy encrypted messaging, safe from third-party snooping.
Tinder to pay tuition for student who quit sorority over profile pic controversy
Tinder has agreed to pay a University of Nebraska Omaha student's scholarship following her fallout with her sorority over her dating app profile pic.
WeChat Enterprise could be the app to take down Slack
Slack isn't the only office chat app around. WeChat has finally launched it's own take on the service, called WeChat Enterprise.
NYPD sides with FBI in the war against unbreakable encryption
The New York Police Department wants legislation that would weaken encryption, which would allow access into criminal's phones.
Meet the man selling bundles of cash on Instagram and calling it art
Meet Matty Mo, an LA-based artist known better by his nom de plume: "The Most Famous Artist." His latest project involved selling money for money -- as art
The latest Reddit war is between Donald Trump and Sweden
The sub-community of r/Sweden on Reddit appears to have a vendetta against r/The_Donald.
Captionbot is another AI from Microsoft, and it's not doing so hot either
Luckily for us, history has a tendency of repeating itself, and Microsoft's latest creation is a sometimes hilarious entity known as Captionbot.
Weekly Rewind: Facebook's F8, your brain on LSD, and more
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything.
Facebook employees ask if they should act to stop Trump, and Zuck says no
As it turns out, employees within social media giant Facebook have been toying with the notion of preventing a Trump presidency.
Oscar is a 3D-printed organic Lego set … and it’s creepy as hell
The Modular Body, a 56-video series, introduces Oscar as a 3D-printed modular body. There's no telling how long it would live, were it really alive.
UC Davis spends over $175K to manage online reputation after infamous pepper spray incident
More than four years after the incident, UC Davis is paying consultants to help manage its online reputation after protestors were pepper sprayed in 2011.
This hilarious, NSFW tweet just landed KFC in a whole heap of trouble on Twitter
KFC was forced to remove and apologize for a NSFW tweet posted from its Australian account after it was deemed offensive by Twitter users.
Medium is the latest casualty of the Great Firewall of China
Medium, a blogging tool founded by a former Twitter CEO, has been blocked in China as the country ramps up Web censorship following the Panama Papers leak.
Report: CIA funding social media surveillance and data-mining companies
The CIA is funding social media surveillance and data-mining companies that specialize in tracking Twitter and Instagram, via its venture capital firm.
Twitter ignores China ban to target ad dollars with new exec appointment
Twitter has appointed a greater China managing director to pursue more advertising revenue in the country. The role is described as a key exec position.
Reservations for its eatery are sold out, but Google is giving away free donuts in NYC
Google is teasing its translation app through food, by opening a pop-up eatery for four days in New York City, Too bad reservations are already sold out.
Facebook wants to make the News Feed your go-to source for news
Facebook is testing a major change to the News Feed that could see the social media app becoming a lot more news-focused.
NFL announces its entire line-up of Twitter livestreams, check out the full list here
The NFL has revealed its full Thursday Night Football schedule, including the ten matches that are to be livestreamed on Twitter for the first time ever.
Social media ban makes prison even worse for inmates in Texas
Texas is banning the use of social media in prisons for inmates and their friends or family members that run accounts in their names.
Ghost in the Shell film starring ScarJo faces whitewashing backlash on Twitter
The live-action Ghost in the Shell adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson has been accused of whitewashing on Twitter, regarding its lead character.
Save to Google is a new Chrome extension that does what it says and little else
Save to Google, a new Chrome extension from Google, is a bookmarking service that lets you easily save Web pages and images to a centralized location.
Ohio teen live-streams friend’s sexual assault on Periscope, gets indicted
An 18-year-old in Ohio has been indicted for using Twitter's video-streaming service Periscope to broadcast the rape of her 17-year-old friend.
The filmmakers behind ESPN’s This Magic Moment talk Shaq, ’90s NBA, social media
The directors for ESPN's documentary on the 90's Orlando Magic, "This Magic Moment", discuss how social media would have been in the NBA in the 1990's.
Just 1.5 percent of news organization traffic comes from Twitter
As per a new report from the social analytics company Parse.ly, Twitter is responsible for just 1.5 percent of traffic for a typical news organization.
Facebook nabs Google’s advanced technology head for new hardware lab
Facebook has picked Regina Dugan, former head of DARPA and Google's Advanced Technology team, to lead its new multimillion-dollar hardware lab, Building 8.
Meet Donald Drumpfbot, the Trump parody chatbot designed for Messenger LOLs
Donald Drumpfbot is about to crash the chatbot party on Facebook Messenger. The Donald Trump parody AI promises major LOLs on the popular chat service.
Game of Thrones’ opening title sequence looks absolutely amazing in 360 degrees
HBO, in collaboration with Facebook and VFX studio Elastic, has created a 360-degree version of Game of Thrones' incredible opening credit sequence.
