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Meta launches new WhatsApp app for Mac users
New Delhi: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new WhatsApp application for Mac users with a group calling feature which will connect with up to eight people on video…
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Google, Meta are highest-paying big tech firms for engineers: Study
San Francisco: Google and Meta (formerly Facebook) tend to pay their software engineers more than their Big Tech counterparts, a new study has shown. According to new data from an anonymous forum…
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New EU law lets social media users opt out of AI-driven personalised feeds
London: Social media users in the European Union (EU) can now opt out of AI-driven personalised content feeds on mainstream social networks. The change is the result of the EU’s Digital Services…
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After HD photos, WhatsApp now let you send videos in HD quality
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has now rolled out the option for users to send videos in HD quality. Users now will be able to send videos in 720p quality. There was no…
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WhatsApp working on recent history-sharing feature for new group participants
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new recent history-sharing feature for new group participants on Android beta. For this feature, WhatsApp is expected to add a new…
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Meta’s next Ray-Ban smart glasses may let users livestream video
San Francisco: Meta’s (formerly Facebook) next Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses will reportedly let users livestream video to viewers who can talk back to them. Internal documents obtained by tech journalist Janko Roettgers…
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Meta shutting down Messenger Lite app for Android
San Francisco: Meta is shutting down the Messenger Lite app, the lightweight stripped-down version of Messenger, on Android. Currently, users of the app are receiving a message that advises them to “use…
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Meta launches its own AI code-writing tool
San Francisco: Meta on Thursday launched its own AI tool called Code Llama to generate new code and debug human-written work. The large language model (LLM) can use text prompts to generate…
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Meta Horizon Worlds’ new update lets users easily block, report others while in Pause
San Francisco: Meta has released a new ‘v124’ update for the social virtual reality (VR) platform ‘Horizon Worlds’, which includes the ability for users to easily mute, block or report other people…
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Create groups on WhatsApp without needing a name for it
New Delhi: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that users can now create a group on WhatsApp without needing a name for it. This feature is rolling out globally over the…
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Instagram introduces more transparency measures for European users
London: Meta-owned Instagram on Tuesday introduced additional transparency measures and user options for European users, as the Digital Services Act (DSA) comes into effect later this month. The users will now be…
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Meta introduces multilingual speech translation model for 100 languages
San Francisco: Heating up the artificial intelligence (AI) race, Meta on Tuesday launched a new all-in-one, multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model for up to 100 languages depending on the task.…
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Instagram begins to roll out web version of Threads amid usage fall
San Francisco: Meta-owned Instagram on Tuesday started to roll out the web version of its Threads platform, which is struggling to stay afloat amid decreasing usage day by day. Threads users will…
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Meta’s Threads loses steam, hovers around 10 mn users only
San Francisco: Meta’s Twitter rival Threads has been in steady decline after peaking at around 50,000 daily active users globally on Android devices in early July and now stands at around 10…
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Meta working on code-generating AI tool ‘Code Llama’: Report
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, challenging proprietary software offered by OpenAI, Google, and others. According to The Information, citing…
