Facebook's Messenger app is on its way to becoming a social network in its own right, thanks to new group chat features rolled out today. Like regular groups (the app for which Facebook killed last year), group chats now come with admin privileges. Anyone with admin status can add someone else...
Facebook is rolling out an update to Messenger Lite for Android that brings video chats to those with lower-end phones or dodgy internet connections. You can have the same face-to-face conversations you do with the full Messenger app, just in a 10MB client that's easier to download and shouldn't...
Facebook has announced that Messenger now includes an easier method for creating and adding members to group calls. You will no longer need to end the current call before being able to add more members.
Facebook has now made it's Messenger Kids app available on Amazon Fire tablets. The app offers parental controls designed to help parents control who their children can contact and be contacted by on the social network.
Facebook launched a Messenger app just for kids this past December, but it was only available on iOS. Now the app is available on Amazon's app store for Fire tablets as well. A kids' Facebook account requires a parent account to sign up, and that parent can manage their online interactions.
Facebook has announced a new version of Facebook Messenger that is designed for kids to give parents granular control over who their children can talk to using the service.
Facebook has introduced Messenger Kids. The app allows a parent to make a messaging account for their children on their own Facebook profile, while gaining parental control features to manage their children's usage and communications.
Facebook is teaming up with the Australian government in order to test a system that would prevent revenge porn from ending up on its site or services like Instagram and Messenger.
You've been able to send money in Facebook Messenger for a while now by linking a debit card, but now you can use your PayPal balance to pay back your friends.
Facebook Messenger Lite, which was initially aimed at users in emerging markets, has surprisingly launched in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland. The app uses techniques to make Facebook faster to load and use less data for those on less than stellar connections.
Facebook and Facebook Messenger have different emoji sets, but not for long. A new report says Facebook will change the Messenger emoji to use regular Facebook emoji.
Facebook Messenger Platform 2.1 includes new features for businesses to connect with their customers. One of the highlights of this update is the built-in Natural Language Processing, allowing developers to incorporate NLP into their bots in a simple manner.
Facebook's M AI is making it easier to help you save links, videos, photos, or whatever else you share between friends in your Facebook Messenger convos for viewing later. It will offer to save these items automatically and you can review them at any time.
Facebook Messenger has had support for chatbots for a while, but today Verizon has announced their Fios customers now have one that can search for content to watch, manage your DVR, and add channels to an existing package.
Google is already using its machine learning technology to help translate text faster and more accurate than ever before. Facebook's AI research team is also looking into this and says they'll be using convolutional neural networks (CNN) so their systems can use the benefit of parallel processing.
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