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Facebook may test a ‘red envelope’ payments feature soon

Facebook, that is constantly testing new products and features, seems to be gearing up for some new experiments. These include a “red envelope” feature that may let users send money to others on the service and a “breaking news” tag that publishers will attach to their posts.   The 2 new features, that are not […]

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Facebook adds a new GIF-supported polls feature to News Feed

Polls check lots of social media manager boxes like “engagement,” “feedback” and “traffic lift.” With all those buzzwords, it’s really a marvel that Facebook hadn’t yet pilfered, I mean borrowed, the concept from poll-crazy rival Twitter. Expect to see them all over in your feeds from currently on, however, as Facebook has launched Polls globally […]

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AI to creates photo-realistic images of fake celebs

While Facebook and Prisma tap AI to transform everyday images and video into flowing artworks, NVIDIA is aiming for all-out realism. The graphics card-maker just released a paper detailing its use of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create high-definition photos of fake humans. The results, as illustrated in an accompanying video, are} impressive and […]

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Facebook’s New Features help build supportive Groups

Facebook has been steadily improving things for groups on the social network. The company added administration tools like membership insights for community pages. It also created Groups for Pages to let businesses, artists and brands create their own communities. It also shuttered a standalone Groups app in the hopes of bringing the functionality into the […]

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Workplace Chat desktop app to everyone Facebook opens it

Facebook brought its Slack-competing service out of private beta last year and rebranded it as simply ‘Workplace.’ Its messaging side offering, workplace Chat, had browser and mobile components — and today, it’s bringing its desktop app out of beta so all users can converse in text or over video, send files and share screens tho’ […]

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Facebook finally adapts to 4K video for regular videos

If you’re sick of your lovely videos wanting crummy on Facebook, there’s excellent news for you. after some super HD videos started popping up on the social network, Facebook currently confirms to TechCrunch it’s testing 4K video uploads and viewing using the 2160p UHD-1 Ultra-High-Definition tv standard. Some Pages and profiles will currently post 4K […]

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Automatically creates an avatar from a photo ‘Facebook research’

Creating avatars. Who’s got time for it?! Computers, that’s who. You’ll ne’er have to waste another second choosing your hair style, skin tone or facial hair length if this analysis from Facebook finds its method into product form.   In a paper (PDF) presented at the International Conference on computer Vision, Lior Wolf et al. […]

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Facebook Messenger now support PayPal P2P payment feature

Messenger started making it easier to pay your friends for dinner back in 2015 when it introduced the choice to transfer cash in-app with a credit or debit card. If PayPal has always been more convenient, though, you may love this collaboration: Facebook and the payment service have teamed up to provide you a new […]

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Messenger Instant Games developers monetize with purchases and ads

Facebook is ramping up its efforts to attract developers and so users to its ‘Instant Games’ feature in messenger. the company these days declared that developers will now add in-app purchases and advertisements to Instant Games, a move that the company hopes can make messenger a more attractive platform…   For advertisements, developers will choose […]

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Facebook Live now has a built-in screen-sharing feature

Facebook has quietly launched a new feature for Live videos that produces sharing your screen an easy experience. instead of downloading a third-party service, you’ll now simply click the “Share Screen” button that appears once you enter the Live module on desktop. TheNextWeb’s Matt Navarra has discovered the new sharing option, which does not seem […]

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