Zuckerberg may have been telling both the Europarlament and the US Senate that Facebook will never be a paid platform, but his actions speak louder; FB is currently testing methods of monetizing the group content on its platform. Paid groups are nothing new on FB, but they have been existing in a state of a, how to put it, freestyle. Groups administration had to come up with 3rd party ways and means for the group members to pay their fees. What Zuckerberg’s platform is working on is creating a single, in-platform method for the groups administration to gather fees from their users ...

Are you spending more time before your PC than at the phone? Are you waiting for an important SMS? Do not worry, because Android Messages has you covered. Updates version of this app now allows you to both receive and send back text messages from your computer. It is even possible to exchange texts between two PCs, as well as send GIFs. Tweet Vote on HN ...

After yesterday’s update, YT Music service has reached twelve more countries; it is now available in seventeen countries around the world: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The early access period of the feature has officially ended. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Oh my! According to Nine News, Telstra has officially acknowledged that its services are temporarily interrupted, with both mobile and stationary users being affected. The company does not know when will the issue be fixed. According to Telstra, there is no issue with 3G and 4G, but a large number of complaints online suggests otherwise. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Imagine, dear reader, that you are Michael Morris, american film director. You are driving your Tesla through the streets of Los Angeles, standing in traffic. Suddenly, someone comes up to you and says ”Hi, could you drive to the sideways? Your car is burning”. Expending your monthly supply of cool you do so and then get out to watch your vehicle slowly burning to a crisp.Oh, and your wife catches it all on a camera.Thankfully nobody got hurt and the fire was quickly put out by the firefighters. As Morris and McCormack, his wife, have stated, they were not using the autopilot ...

Why remember stuff when you can just put your fat finger on the display? Rumour online is that Google is hard at work at implementing fingerprint scan access – feature well known from smartphones – to online websites. First step on this path was for Chrome to implement WebAuthn standard that allows such function. Fingerprint logging will reach Chrome soon, but will only be available for testers at first. Much depends on websites’ owners – without them implementing similiar standards the function will not ...

That is great. I cannot wait to remember all the good moments that me and my eight Facebook friends have hardly spent together. Mm. I must be an exception, though, since seemingly lots of people enjoy their FB memories. It is for them that Zuckerberg is updating memories with new functions. New, modernized memories are said to be divided into a number of sections; one for the already known That Day, another for collage of events that you and your friends participated in, another for events that we missed by not spending every waking moment on social websites etc.New and better memories are ...

This time the victim is MyHeritage, an Israeli organization that researches one’s lineage based on the DNA tests. If you thought that Facebook letting some hackers get away with 50 million accounts data was bad, check this out – nearly twice as much has been stolen from MyHeritage’s data banks. The attack has been performed last year – yeah… and the data stolen has belonged to everyone who has logged into the organisation’s website before 27th October 2017. MyHeritage has officially stated that the user’s DNA info, passwords and back account info ...

Elder Scrolls: Blades is a mobile game taking place in The Elder Scrolls universe (also known, by the uneducated, as ”that Skyrim place”). Game’s reveal trailer is available here. It can be treated as mobile Skyrim, but that does not really tell the whole story, or so it seems. Blades can be played in one of three gameplay modes: Abyss, where the player traverses a procedurally generated dungeon, Town, where the focus of the game is building up your own place by completing quests and Arena, which is all about fighting enemies with particular sets of rules. Little is known ...

According to the research concluded by the Pew Research Center, Facebook is now more popular among adults than teens. While FB is still the reigning champion of social media, younger generations have taken to other platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. Survey carried out amongst the people between 13 and 17 has concluded that, while 51% of teenagers are still using Facebook, 72% of them are regularly on Instagram, 69% (hee hee, 69) are on Snapchat and a whooping 85% watch YouTube’s content. Twitter came in fifth, used by 32% of people surveyed. Further research revealed ...