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S.Korean watchdog looking into Meta’s privacy policy update
Seoul: The Personal Information Protection Commission is looking into whether the upcoming privacy policy update by Meta, the operator of Facebook, runs afoul of domestic law and will take action if any…
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Instagram aims to make it easier to find nearby businesses
San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing Instagram’s latest update aims to make it easier for users to find local businesses or attractions by adding a searchable map to help “discover popular local businesses near…
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Meta’s new AI research tool turns ideas into digital art
New Delhi: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based research concept that will let people use text and simple sketches to generate digital imagery. The concept called…
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New Instagram tools to better connect creators with subscribers
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it is bringing new tools, including subscriber chats, exclusive posts and more for creators to connect with subscribers to the photo-sharing platform Instagram. The…
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WhatsApp to let you react with more emojis
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out a new feature that will let users react to messages with any emoji of their choice. Currently, the platform…
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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…
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Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool
San Francisco: Tech giant Meta has created a single artificial intelligence (AI)-based model capable of translating across 200 different languages, including many not supported by current commercial tools. According to The Verge,…
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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…
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WhatsApp to soon let users hide online status from everyone
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a feature that will give iOS users the ability to hide their online status from everyone. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will come in a…
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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…
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Meta launches Instagram Reels APIs for developers
San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has announced that it is introduced Reels to several endpoints on the Instagram Platform. The platform said that it is looking to improve its content publishing…
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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,…
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Instagram tests new feature for disappearing content
San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is experimenting with another new feature, Notes, that would allow users to post disappearing content. The feature, being tested with a limited set of users, for…
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Now WhatsApp let users hide profile pictures, ‘Last Seen’ from specific people
San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new options to your privacy control settings to further protect users’ privacy online. On the microblogging site, the company wrote that…
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We’re an entertainment platform, not a social network: TikTok
San Francisco: TikTok has clarified that it is not interested in copying Facebook as it is not a social network but an entertainment platform, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to make…
