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Facebook to enable viewing of Apple’s animated photos

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The latest iPhones come with the ability to turn still images into video — just like magic — but sharing options had been limited to other Apple apps. That’s changing as Facebook, one of the leading forums for photo sharing, adds Apple’s Live Photos feature to Facebook’s iPhone and iPad app. Facebook will start offering it Monday to a limited number of users initially, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks. Facebook’s support follows a similar move by…

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Uber gets social, with new transportation option in Facebook Messenger

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Uber is going social, with a new transportation update to the popular Facebook Messenger app. In an effort to provide safe, affordable and reliable transportation, the San Francisco-based ridesharing service is partnering with Facebook to allow users in select cities to call for a ride without leaving Messenger. With the touch of a button, Uber has made it even easier to bring people together, both online and in person. In the latest version of Messenger, Facebook users get the option…

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PolitiFact will begin fact-checking posts, and publish rulings, on Medium

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Political spin may become a thing of the past on Medium, the blogging platform popular with candidates. PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon start sifting through posts by politicians — and publishing rulings — on Medium, as a way to “bring voters the truth.” Medium, launched in August 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has become increasingly favored in political circles as a place to share content and promote analysis longer than 140 characters. Many White House…

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Analysis: Jeb Bush strong in GOP debate but it may not matter

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Jeb Bush finally delivered a powerful debate performance. But it may not matter. The former Florida governor repeatedly took the fight to front-runner Donald Trump in Las Vegas Tuesday night as the Republican Party’s 2016 class met on the debate stage for the last time this year. Bush called the billionaire businessman “the chaos candidate,” insisted Trump couldn’t “insult his way to the presidency,” and dismissed Trump’s proposal to block all Muslims from entering the country as dangerous and “not…

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Facebook hails U.S. presidential race as 2015’s top topic

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The United States won’t elect a president until next year but the debate over the crowded field of candidates jostling for the Oval Office emerged as the hottest topic on Facebook this year. The race for the Democratic and Republican party nominations eclipsed an outpouring of emotions over deadly attacks, strife, social issues and disasters. The rankings released Wednesday open a window into the cultural mindset by analyzing how frequently specific high-profile events, politicians, entertainers, athletes, movies and TV shows…

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Facebook expands sharing options to include live video

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Get ready to start watching live video of your friends and family doing something fun, boring or even dumb on Facebook. The world’s largest social network is testing a new feature that will enable its 1.5 billion users to use their smartphones to shoot video so other people can see what they are doing as it happens. Facebook began testing the live video option Thursday among a sliver of its U.S. audience with iPhones. The Menlo Park, California, company didn’t…

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Social media helps drive historic Cuban exodus to U.S.

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As summer began to bake the central Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, Elio Alvarez and Lideisy Hernandez sold their tiny apartment and everything in it for $5,000 and joined the largest migration from their homeland in decades. Buying two smartphones for $160 apiece on a layover on their way to Ecuador, they plugged themselves into a highly organized, well-funded and increasingly successful home-brewed effort to make human traffickers obsolete by using smartphones and messaging apps on much of the 3,400-mile…

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