Five percent of people have admitted to checking Facebook during sex in a survey by condom brand Durex.
Revelations about the underhand tactics used by the NSA to track millions of innocent people continue to flow with the report from Glenn Greenwald’s website The Intercept claiming that the security agency attempted infect the computers of millions of people with malware as part of a programme called “Turbine”.
Facebook has acquired hugely popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion (£11.4 billion) in cash and shares
Researchers from five European universities are working on a system to sort the truth from the lies on social media by determining the accuracy of the content being shared.
Facebook has announced that it will introduce around 50 new gender identity options for its billion-strong userbase, allowing people to define how they want to be perceived on the world’s biggest social network.