- Business
Meta Quest headsets to no longer require FB account
San Francisco: Tech giant Meta has announced that users can now log in to virtual reality (VR) headsets without using their Facebook credentials. In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that…
- Technology
Meta sues Chinese firm for scraping data from FB, Instagram
San Francisco: Meta has sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Facebook, Instagram and other big tech platforms. Octopus claims to…
- Technology
Mozilla Firefox can now automatically remove tracking from URLs
San Francisco: Mozilla’s latest Firefox browser update has a new feature that prevents sites like Facebook from tracking users across websites. According to Bleeping Computer, Mozilla Firefox 102 was released with a…
- Technology
Facebook testing new ways to organise, quickly access Groups
San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook has announced that it is beginning to test new ways to quickly access your favourite Facebook Groups and simplifying how they are organised. The company said it is…
- Technology
Facebook, Insta ban users who offer abortion pills via mail posts
San Francisco: Facebook and Instagram have removed posts from users who offered abortion pills via mail posts. Facebook removed such posts, and also temporarily banned some of those users, on the same…
- Technology
Meta builds AI models that provide realistic sounds in VR settings
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has built three new artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to make sound more realistic in mixed and virtual reality experiences. The three AL models — Visual-Acoustic Matching,…
- India
NLSIU alumni slam action against students for protesting sexual harassment
Bengaluru: The alumni of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in an open letter slammed the institute for punishing two girl students who raised voice against sexual harassment. The alumni…
- Technology
Facebook Pay now becomes Meta Pay
San Francisco: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that the company is changing the name of Facebook Pay to Meta Pay. Meta Pay will stay the same easy way to shop, send…
- India
MVA crisis: 3 more Shiv Sena MLAs join Eknath Shinde camp in Guwahati
Guwahati: Three more Shiv Sena MLAs have joined the rebel group of MLAs led by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde in Guwahati on Thursday morning further deepening the political instability in the…
- Technology
Facebook whistleblower to train lawyers how to fight Big Tech
San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off a…
- India
UP man marries Pak girl after Facebook friendship
Farrukhabad: A 23-year-old zardozi artist from Farrukhabad fell in love with a girl on Facebook. After their love blossomed, he learnt that the girl was a Pakistani. Mohd Jamal, however, was undeterred…
- Middle East
Baraa Habab, aged 26, discovered security flaws in Facebook
A 26-year-old Syrian man Baraa Habab, who managed to discover a number of security vulnerabilities in Facebook and was able to access the page of one of the founders of Facebook, which…
- Technology
One-third top US hospitals’ websites sent patient data to Facebook: Report
Washington: About 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sending sensitive patient data to Facebook, now known as Meta, via a tracking tool installed on their websites, according to…
- Technology
Facebook tells employees to tweak algorithms to take on TikTok
San Francisco: Facebook (now Meta) employees have reportedly been directed by the senior executives to change the platform’s algorithms to make it more like its arch Chinese rival TikTok that is gaining…
- Technology
FB’s tools tracking people seeking abortion services: Report
San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers and allowing anti-abortion organisations to use that data to target and influence people online, media reports say. A joint investigation…
