Facebook only checks for impostors within your circle of friends

When you go to Face Recognition in Facebook’s Settings page, there’s a link that leads you to more info about it that says switching it on can “help protect you from strangers using a photo of you as their profile picture.” That pertains to a feature…

We’d Watch Conan And Bill Hader Play ‘God Of War’ All Day

It’s part of the late-night host’s “Clueless Gamer” series.

Apple News had a one-week exclusive on a documentary series

Apple isn’t kidding about its intentions to turn its News app into more than just an aggregator. BuzzFeed has confirmed to Digiday that Apple reached a deal to premiere the documentary series Future History: 1968 through News a week before it reache…

Trump’s Own Advisers Don’t Take Him Seriously ― Why Should We?

Time after time, they tell us the president is “just joking” and doesn’t mean what he says.

How the ACORN scandal seeded today’s nightmare politics.

Ranking The Best New Shows On Netflix You Can Stream Right Now

There are two shows worth checking out this week.

Man Who Killed Indian Immigrant In Kansas Bar Gets Life In Prison

“He was only enjoying a glass of beer with his friend,” the victim’s wife said.

Gboard custom GIF creation finally comes to Android

Gboard, the third-party keyboard from Google, has been a popular tool on both Android and iOS for some time now. Interestingly, one of its newest and coolest features, custom GIF creation, has been limited to the iOS version of Gboard since its debut in January. Until now. The new Make a GIF option is finally making its way to Android, … Continue reading

Recommended Reading: The 'Stories' invasion won't relent anytime soon


Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic

Snapchat may have created the monster, but in nearly every social (and some not-so-social) app you fire up, you’ll be greeted with a feed of Stories. In fact, Facebook says the forma…

NASA successfully launches Mars InSight lander

This early hours of Saturday morning saw NASA successfully send the Mars InSight lander on its way to the Red Planet. Just after 4:00 AM Pacific, the lander was launched atop a ULA Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking NASA’s first interplanetary mission to depart from the West Coast. The InSight lander will now … Continue reading