Pretty soon, you'll be able to use Facebook Portal for more than just calling your grandparents. That's because Facebook is adding the ability to make video calls using BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, WebEx, ...

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That’s the blunt response I got from a colleague moments after I started to tell her about Facebook’s Portal and Portal+, the new voice-controlled, video-calling devices with Amazon’s Alexa that ...

Got a Facebook Portal, but worried you won’t be able to use it because you’re not as tech-savvy as you’d like to be? Don’t worry. Setting up your Facebook Portal is a super-easy process that will take ...

Managing long-distance friendships and relationships can be really, really tough. Trust me, I know all about it from years and years of experience. And even though regular phone calls, texts, and ...

The average Facebook user out there likely wasn't secretly hoping the world's biggest social networking company (and frequent privacy flouter) would release a new video chat device that could be ...

Facebook’s first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame. Yet the fancy gadget’s success depends ...

While Facebook's video calling smart home devices have long been in the works, the wake of another major data privacy scandal doesn't feel like the best time for a product launch. But perhaps Facebook ...

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