- Technology
Facebook’s dark mode interface disappears for iOS users
San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook’s dark mode interface for iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users. According to 9to5Mac, the dark mode option in Facebook for iOS has disappeared without explanation. While…
- Technology
Meta to let you manage who sees your posts on Facebook
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Thursday announced new privacy controls for users, saying that it is rolling out a new setting to make it easier to manage who sees your posts…
- World
Texas school shooting: Gunman warned on Facebook minutes before attack
Uvalde: The governor of Texas says the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school warned on social media minutes before the attack that he was going to…
- Technology
Facebook to discontinue some location-tracking features
San Francisco: Due to “low usage”, Facebook is reportedly discontinuing several services that tracked your real-time location, including Nearby Friends, location history and background location. In a notification sent to people who…
- Technology
Instagram testing NFTs this week, Facebook soon: Zuckerberg
New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram is starting to test digital collectibles or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) this week, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, as the global NFT market sees downturn. Zuckerberg confirmed…
- India
Social media platforms fail to control anti-Muslim posts: Report
On March 15, 2019, a 28-year-old gunman named Brenton Harrison Tarrant, stormed into two mosques – Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre – situated in New Zealand and started firing indiscriminately…
- World
Parag Agrawal’s wife Vineeta linked with Musk’s Twitter takeover
New Delhi: Vineeta Agarwala, the wife of Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, is now making headlines amid Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal. Her role as general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) —…
- Technology
Staying away from Twitter, FB for a week may improve wellbeing, anxiety
London: Taking a break from social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, for at least a week may lead to significant improvements in wellbeing, depression and anxiety, finds a new study.…
- Technology
Meta to pay creators up to $4K for original content in Facebook Reels
New Delhi: Meta has announced to enable creators on its short-video making platform Reels on Facebook, which is a rival to TikTok, earn up to $4,000 per month for original content. The…
- Business
After sale to FB, WhatsApp is not what it used to be: Former CBO
Former Chief Business Officer Neeraj Arora of instant messaging application WhatsApp stated that the app today is only a shadow of the product the erstwhile employees worked on. Things dramatically changed, according…
- Technology
Instagram testing TikTok-like fullscreen feed
San Francisco: Meta-owned photo sharing platform Instagram is experimenting with full-screen vertical home feeds. In a video posted on micro-blogging site Twitter, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the test and said that…
- Technology
Meta plans to launch 4 high-end VR headsets by 2024
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) is working on four new virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headsets that the company will release by 2024. According to The Information, the aggressive timeline…
- Technology
Meta building AI that processes speech & text as humans do
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative to better understand how the human brain processes speech and text, and build AI systems that learn like…
- India
WhatsApp bans over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in March
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform…
- Technology
Mainstream media plays bigger role in disseminating disinformation: Meta
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has claimed that mainstream media plays a bigger role in disseminating disinformation, and polarisation is decreasing in parts of the world where social media use is rising.…
