Facebook’s “Facebook for Every Phone” featurephone app appears to beginning some Instagram-esque inspiration by way of two new photo filters — Black & White and Sepia — that can be applied to uploaded photos. Though, how reliant the featurephone app was on Instagram’s recent $1 billion acquisition by the social networking giant is uncertain as a spokesperson speaking with InsiderFacebook stated that “no one from the Instagram...

Status icons in Facebook chat are a handy way for your friends to know a few basic things you’re doing at any given point. Currently, Facebook shows simple green dots for people online and actively using said service and a little mobile phone when they’re signed in on their mobile devices. So we’d naturally assume this new(?) controller icon found by one of our readers would indicate the Facebook user in question is actively engaged in a game. According to...

It’s official: Facebook is acquiring Instagram to the tune of $1 billion. In return, Instagram will receive a massive amount of cash and ability to keep building/developing outside of Facebook — essentially they will remain independent. Facebook, meanwhile, will begin integrating features of Instagrams popular photo sharing and effects platform deep within their website. (No timeline for any such integration was announced, but the purchase is an obvious move...

An alarming trend as of late is for employers asking and in some cases demanding that you provide them with your Facebook (and often other accounts) login credentials to snoop on your private life. To any normal person with an ounce of common sense, it’s clear to see it’s a blatant invasion of privacy. Employers who have used such tactics, however, maintain that it is a cheaper form of background checking. A bill proposed to Congress in recent weeks set out to...

What if you could take Facebook pokes and bring them into the physical world? If given the chance, would you? Dutch Designer/Developer Jasper van Loenen has created a way to do just that! He calls it the Poking Machine. It’s a wearable device that pokes you, physically, whenever you are poked on Facebook. Creating a custom circuit, van Loenan enables a motorized lever connected to a 9-volt battery and a Bluetooth chip, to extrude and resembling a human finger, poke the...