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Photo: HANDOUT / New York Times Facebook is using a blue dinosaur as the animated guide in a new education center that teaches users how to adjust their privacy settings. The world’s largest social network unveiled the interactive education center, Privacy Basics, on Thursday. The center will use the dinosaur and other animated characters to help people work through the settings to adjust what their friends and advertisers see of their profiles. “This new way of communicating with people, using animated cartoons, using a video format, we really hope this resonates with people and that they find it helpful,” Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan said. “We’re doing this in response to a demand that the privacy policy be clearer.” Facebook is increasing user outreach after years of lawsuits and confusion over how the company controls and displays the data that members provide. Updates like Privacy Basics, along with prompts this year for members to check their preferences fo...

According to hacked screenshots, payments would send the same way you can now send a photo. You'll be able to add a debit card to Messenger, use one that's already on file with Facebook, and add a PIN for extra security. PayPal, Venmo, Square, and even Clinkle might have a new competitor on the horizon  — Facebook Messenger. According to hacked screenshots by Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude (via TechCrunch's Josh Constine), payments would send the same way you can now send a photo. You'll be able to add a debit card to Messenger, use one that's already on file with Facebook, and add a PIN for extra security. This isn't the first time signs pointing to upcoming payments has been found in messenger, TechCrunch reports. Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski found code that said as much last month. Aude told TechCrunch how the payments work (at least so far): Aude played around the with feature and its code. He tells me you simply hit a bu...

Reuters Software giant Google Inc plans to launch a mobile messaging app it is likely to test in India and other emerging markets, the Economic Times reported on Friday , citing sources. If launched, the mobile app will compete in the mobile chat space with the likes of WhatsApp, Line and Hike. The daily said Google was in the early stages of development of the app, which will not make it mandatory to use a Google login. Moreover, unlike WhatsApp, where users have to pay Rs 53 annually after one year of usage, Google's messaging app will be free. The Mountain View, California-based company is also looking at localisation, by adding Indian language support and voice-to-text messaging, the newspaper said. A Google spokeswoman said the company did not comment on speculation. Source:-  http://bit.ly/1xIZHMs