Author: Matthew Hughes / Source: The Next Web In March, Facebook teased Messenger’s long-awaited dark mode. Users could unlock the feature by simply sending a crescent moon emoji to one of their friends. And now, after a month of public experimentation, the feature is receiving a wide release and

Author: Kelly Tyko / Source: USA TODAY Wochit, USA TODAY After being out much of Wednesday, Facebook began to come back to life early Thursday after midnight ET for many users. The outage is one of the longest the massively popular social network has ever experienced in its 15 years. Facebook

Author: Molly Wood / Source: WIRED You would be forgiven if you read Mark Zuckerberg’s Wednesday post about Facebook moving to “A Privacy-Minded Vision for Social Networking” and thought it was either a deathbed conversion, a cynical ploy to avoid regulation and reassure users, or even just an

It’s virtually impossible to grasp just how much the world has changed since the advent of the internet, which has impacted the ways humans communicate and interact (or avoid interaction) more than any other advancement in history. It’s amazing what we can now do with a simple press of a button,

Author: Ivan Mehta / Source: The Next Web Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. Admit it, we’ve all accidentally sent a meme to our boss, or maybe even an unwarranted ‘hi’ to an ex, and