- India
Security guard duped of Rs 40,000 on pretext of being given work as ‘playboy’
New Delhi: “Do you want to become a playboy and make quick money?” When Prakash, a security guard in Delhi, received this message from a girl he had come across on Facebook,…
- Technology
WhatsApp’s new feature to allow users share status updates to FB Stories
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new feature, which will allow users to share their status updates to Facebook stories without leaving WhatsApp. Earlier, users could share status updates to…
- India
NCERT’s revision of textbooks part of ‘saffronisation’ agenda: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday strongly condemned the dropping of certain chapters and portions from NCERT class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the…
- India
Govt to fact check, flag fake news on social media; firms to be sued over inaction
New Delhi: Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter may lose protection under safe harbour if they fail to remove content identified by the government-notified fact-checker as false or misleading information, Minister…
- Crime and Accident
Nagpur man live-streams suicide on Facebook
Nagpur: A 27-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Nagpur hanged himself while live-streaming the act on Facebook for almost 40 minutes in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Krutank Siddharth Dongre, a resident…
- India
UP man jumps into river after going live on Facebook
Lucknow: A 30-year-old man went live on Facebook and then jumped into the Gomti river. Police said that SDRF personnel were pressed into service but the man could not be traced till…
- India
Woman gang-raped in Gurugram
Gurugram: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a man and his friend here, police said on Saturday. The incident happened on Thursday in a PG accommodation in sector 53, they said.…
- World
Facebook-parent Meta to lay off another 10,000 jobs
New York: Facebook-parent Meta on Tuesday said it will lay off another 10,000 workers and will not fill another 5,000 positions, announcing the second round of significant job cuts by the tech…
- Technology
Meta to end Reels Play bonus programme on Insta, Fb
San Francisco: Meta will be ending its “Reels Play bonus programme” on both Instagram and Facebook for creators in the US, the media reported. The programme used to reward content creators when…
- Technology
WhatsApp rolling ‘Call Link’ feature on Windows beta
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new “Call Link” feature, which will allow users to create a link to join a call, on Windows beta. The new…
- Technology
Meta’s LLaMA: Advancing AI research with a groundbreaking language model
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is releasing a new AI language generator called LLaMA, which is not a system that anyone can talk to but rather a research tool aimed at democratizing access…
- Business
After Twitter, Meta announces paid verification for FB, Instagram
Delhi: Inspired by Elon Musk-run Twitter, Meta on Sunday announced it is testing paid verification for Instagram and Facebook for $11.99 per month for the web and $14.99 per month for mobile.…
- World
Indian-American judge slaps $1 mn fine on Facebook
New York: Indian-American judge Vince Chhabria has slapped a fine of almost $1 million on Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and its law firm for creating obstacles for court and users in a…
- Technology
After layoffs, Zuckerberg now wants 2023 to be ‘year of efficiency’
San Francisco: After laying off 11,000 employees, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now wants 2023 to be the “year of efficiency”. In his quarterly earnings call with analysts late on Wednesday,…
- Technology
Meta to restore Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts
San Francisco: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced that it will be reinstating former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. The announcement was made…
