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Close Facebook's newest ad-blocking tactic defeats Adblock Plus' workaround Drag That was quick. Just two days after Facebook found a way to sneak ads past ad-blocking software, the ad blockers have struck back. Adblock Plus, one of the best-known tools for blocking ads on the inteet, claims to have a work-around that can defeat Facebook's advertising. According to an official Adblock Plus blog post Thursday, users of the software can simply add this line of code to their filters to make Facebook's ads go away:facebook.com##DIV[id^="substream_"] ._5jmm[data-dedupekey][data-cur...

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Enlarge ImageLive video has become the buzzword of social media lately. Jason Cipriani/CNET What a difference two years make.Back then, when live video apps like Periscope and Meerkat arrived on mobile phones, live video seemed like a lark for tech nerds and poor college students looking to watch cable TV for free. But within months, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri tapped into the shaky and visceral feel of live video because they understand they can share the emotion of breaking news events with observers who might otherwise just get the news through photos and news cameras.Fast forward to March, when Facebook began giving anyone with a phone and inteet coection an easy way to broadcast li...

The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook. James Martin/CNET No need to go to Brazil to watch USA basketball. It's on your phone.The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook, the league said Thursday. A total of nine games played by the men's and women's basketball teams will be streamed on both the USA Basketball and NBA Facebook pages. The men's team includes stars Kyrie Irving of the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Kevin Durant and Draymond Green from the Golden State Warriors.The games will also be retransmitted on NBA TV. The news comes two days after Twitter aounced it would live-stream a weekly NBA pregame...

[embedded content]In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the surface of the moon. Today, to commemorate that aiversary, Aldrin made his first delightful foray into Facebook Live to share his memories of that momentous occasion.In the one-hour session, he and his daughter Jan shared anecdotes and memories, and his hopes for the future.Highlights include Jan recounting how she couldn't hug her father when he came home because the astronauts had been quarantined; her faith in the space program; paparazzi climbing over the fence to photograph the Aldrin family; Buzz revealing that the reason there are so many photographs of him on the moon is because Armst...

YouTuber PewDiePie made almost as much as "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt in 2015. Getty A clamoring mob is a clamoring mob, regardless of who's at the center of the throng.That's the lesson companies like Facebook are leaing about inteet celebrities. Is Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie on par with Brad Pitt? In a sense, it doesn't matter. In June, The Wall Street Joual found that Facebook is paying celebrities and media outlets to use its new live streaming service, Facebook Live. Among those celebrities are recognizable names -- names that come from television and sports, like comedian and actor Kevin Hart or Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.On Tuesday, a new list of na...

Video live-streamed on Facebook shows the action that precedes a shooting, as well as the aftermath. TJ Williams/Facebook One of the victims of a triple shooting in Virginia on Tuesday inadvertently broadcast the attack live to Facebook.The video, uploaded by Facebook user TJ Willams, shows three men in their late 20s sitting in a car in Norfolk, smoking and singing along to music. To share the fun on Facebook, one of the victims uses his phone to capture the moment with social network's new video feature.Suddenly, gunfire erupts and the phone is dropped, but it continues to record as dozens of shots are fired into the car and the passers-by call 911 and try to comfort the victims. All three...

Screen shot of police officers lying next to cruisers during a shooting in Dallas. Michael Kevin Bautista/Facebook A shooting that wounded two police officers during a rally Thursday night in downtown Dallas was live-streamed on Facebook, the latest use of the video-sharing feature amid increased violence involving law enforcement.The video, streamed by Michael Kevin Bautista, shows police officers crouched behind department cruisers as shots rang out at a demonstration in response to recent deadly police shootings across the country. The video shows what appears to be at least two officers lying on the street beside the vehicles. "Holy shit. Holy shit," Bautista says into his phone as he fi...

Facebook is in love with live streaming, and it is paying celebrities and media companies $50 million to fall for the mania too. The world's biggest social network reportedly signed deals with almost 140 people and publishers to broadcast video live to news feeds. Facebook has been enticing big names to join Facebook Live for months, but a Wall Street Joual report Wednesday put clear numbers on the campaign. We also discussed video streaming of other stripes: Playstation widened its Vue online TV service to more devices like Roku and, soon, Android, which gives consumers more options for cutting the cord. And Amazon's video service has surged in usage, leaping to No.3 by traffic behind Netfl...

Facebook makes it super easy to start a live stream of whatever you want. The feature is built into the status update. A change to Twitter's iOS and Android apps let you quickly live stream, but you have to use the Periscope app to do it. That seems a bit strange. In strange, but awesome news, Magic Leap aounced a partnership with Lucasfilm. A demo video shows off C-3PO interacting with R2-D2 and a viewer in mixed reality. It's quite the sight to see, but we don't know when we will be able to enjoy a world with droids in our living rooms.Subscribe: CNET Update delivers the biggest tech news of the day, breaking down trends, hot devices, new apps and what's ahead. Subscribe to the podcast via...

Mark Zuckerberg will answer questions via Facebook Live. James Martin/CNET Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has become well-known for his town hall-style question-and-answer sessions. He's done them from places including Berlin; Delhi, India; and Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Califoia.But next Tuesday, he'll do his first Q&A via Facebook Live, the live-streaming video service the social network has been intensely pushing lately. It will start at 11:30 a.m. PT. People on Facebook can leave their questions on Zuckerberg's post aouncing the Q&A.Facebook has invested heavily in its Live service, which lets people broadcast a video feed from their phones directly to their Facebook pages. The...

Facebook Live lets you broadcast whatever your smartphone can see for up to 90 minutes at a time. But soon you might be able to keep on streaming as long as you like. TechCrunch reported Monday that a new "continuous live video" API is coming to Facebook's broadcast partners, which would allow them to keep streaming beyond the 90-minute time limit, for 24-hour-a-day views of nature, landmarks, and other such opportunities. Explore.org has already been testing it with live puppycams, TechCrunch said. The catch: if you stream indefinitely, Facebook won't record the stream for you to publish after the fact.A Facebook representative confirmed the report, adding that the company is currently ruin...

Facebook/Screenshot by Andrew Hoyle/CNET With Facebook's new interactive map, you can see the locations of all the live video streams users are broadcasting anywhere in the world. The Live Video map can be found under Apps in the left hand panel of Facebook.com. It shows the locations of all current streams as tiny blue dots. The dots will be larger the more viewers they have, however. If you hover your cursor over a larger dot, it'll show lines indicating where in the world people are viewing from, as illustrated in the image above. The map is currently being rolled out, and so far we've been able to find it in the UK and the US. I've asked Facebook to clarify when it'll see a full global r...

[embedded content]In an emotional speech Saturday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg opened up publicly for the first time about the sudden death of her husband."For many months...I was swallowed in the deep fog of grief...an emptiness that fills your heart and your lungs, constricts your ability to think, or even to breathe," Sandberg, 46, said during her commencement address at the University of Califoia, Berkeley, several miles north of Silicon Valley and the Facebook campus."I leaed about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss, but I also leaed that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, find the surface, and breathe again."Sandberg's husband, Yahoo veteran and S...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTeens allegedly used Facebook Live for an X-rated performance. Jason Cipriani/CNET The social-media era has been one in which everyone has leaed how to broadcast.It's perhaps inevitable, then, that some may choose to broadcast things that might disturb others. Last week, a woman allegedly live-streamed her death on Periscope.Now news has emerged of a pair of teenage girls in Milwaukee allegedly using Facebook Live to broadcast sexual acts between them and a teenage boy.As CBS 58 in Milwaukee reported this week, students at Barack Obama School in Milwaukee -- where the two girls involved,...

It's just like Periscope's hearts... but sideways?Facebook livens up its Live video with floating reaction icons and color filters. Also, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making some big changes to boost encryption. Get the details by watching CNET Update below, along with news on changes coming to Twitter, Etsy and the expansion of Amazon Prime Now: Want to see the Facebook Live behind-the-scenes video created during this show? It's right here!CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under 3 minutes. Watch Bridget Carey every afteoon for a breakdown of the big stories, hot devices, new apps and what's ahead. Subscribe to the podcast via the links below.Subscribe:iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is encouraging employees to attend a town hall to lea about the Black Lives Matter movement. James Martin/CNET Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ordered employees to stop crossing out the phrase "black lives matter" on the walls at its Menlo Park, Califoia, headquarters. In an inteal post to employees this week, Zuckerberg said there have been several instances of the phrase being crossed out and replaced with "all lives matter" on the company's chalkboard and white-board walls, which employees and visitors are encouraged to write on. "Despite my clear communication at Q&A last week that this was unacceptable...this has happened again," Zuckerberg wrote, according...

You can now broadcast live video to your Facebook friends. (But you may like Periscope better.)Watch CNET Update below to lea how to use Facebook's new Live Video tool, now available for US iPhone accounts -- and coming soon to Android. Facebook may be the best option for videos you only want your friends to see, but Twitter's Periscope wins the cool points for interacting with viewers during a live event. And of course we can't forget the OG of social live stream apps, Meerkat: Play Also in this tech-news roundup, we say goodbye to free iTunes Radio. And can Rihaa's new album save Tidal? CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under 3 minutes. Watch Bridget Carey every afteoon for a ...