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Meta enters humanoid robotics race, eyes AI-powered consumer robots
Meta is stepping into humanoid robotics, competing with firms like Nvidia-backed Figure AI and Tesla.

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 11:37 AM IST
Police case against UP man for threatening to kill BJP leader in Facebook post
Former MLA Sharadbir Singh accused Sarvendra Pratap Singh of threatening his life and claiming a murder contract

Published on Feb 14, 2025 04:11 PM IST
PTI |
Meta CTO says employees who disagree with policy changes can 'quit': Report
Meta had been facing internal dissent in response to Zuckerberg's January announcement of laying off “low-performers” and introducing many new policy changes.

Published on Feb 14, 2025 10:42 AM IST
Make Chocolate Day special with these romantic quotes, status and captions
Wish ‘Happy Chocolate Day’ to your lover or partner with these romantic WhatsApp messages, quotes, Facebook status, and Instagram caption.

Updated on Feb 09, 2025 03:05 PM IST
Zarafshan Shiraz, New Delhi
Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg on screen but wants no ties to him now; read
Jesse Eisenberg may have played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, but he wants nothing to do with the Meta CEO in real life, here's why

Published on Feb 05, 2025 01:56 PM IST
Tech Tonic | OpenAI suddenly realises using someone else’s work is not cool
OpenAI, Sam Altman and Microsoft have no right to stand on any sort of pedestal and educate the world about ethics of AI

Published on Jan 31, 2025 04:14 PM IST
Meta begins testing ads on Threads amid controversy over content moderation
The decision to test ads on Meta comes amidst CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to end the company's US fact-checking program and loosen content moderation

Published on Jan 25, 2025 07:09 AM IST
Meta responds after Instagram users claim they were forced to follow Trump
Meta has denied user complaints about being forced to follow accounts of the new Trump administration, stating no automatic follows occurred

Published on Jan 23, 2025 05:33 PM IST
AFP |
Huge relief for Meta as tribunal suspends data-sharing ban on WhatsApp
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal suspended a five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and Meta Platforms, providing relief for the tech giant.

Updated on Jan 23, 2025 04:07 PM IST
Meta users find themselves re-following Trump, Vance, Melania without consent
Users across Meta platforms reported a glitch that caused them to re-follow Donald Trump and other officials after unfollowing them.

Published on Jan 23, 2025 07:55 AM IST
Users abandon Meta platforms after it takes away speech protections, fact-checks
Meta recently ended its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and disbanded its diversity, equity and inclusion team.

Updated on Jan 16, 2025 03:07 PM IST
‘Victory’: BJP after Meta apologises for Zuckerberg's remarks on polls in India
Meta India apologised for the "inadvertent error" saying that India remains an incredibly important country for the tech conglomerate.

Published on Jan 15, 2025 03:09 PM IST
Meta India apologises for Mark Zuckerberg's remark on 2024 polls
Meta India’s vice president Shivnath Thukral said that the technology conglomerate would like to apologise for the 'inadvertent error'.

Updated on Jan 15, 2025 03:58 PM IST
Meta to fire 3,600 employees; Zuckerberg says ‘decided to raise the bar’
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the performance-based cuts are intended to ensure that the company has the "strongest talent" and is able to "bring new people in."

Published on Jan 15, 2025 11:51 AM IST
AFP |
Meta advisor reveals why Mark Zuckerberg ‘caving in to' Donald Trump
Zuckerberg is currently implementing a sudden policy change that caught employees and users off guard. This move comes ahead of Trump inauguration.

Updated on Jan 12, 2025 08:09 PM IST
Seeing Silicon | Content moderation just died. Is that a bad thing?
Zuckerberg put an end to corporate content moderation. Without it, can we survive the tsunami of deepfakes and echo chambers that is today’s social media?

Published on Jan 12, 2025 07:31 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta removes tampons from men's bathrooms, faces backlash
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta faced backlash for removing tampons from men’s bathrooms.

Updated on Jan 11, 2025 02:32 PM IST
Fact-checking network refutes Zuckerberg's claims of censorship on Meta platform
International Fact-Checking Network denies Mark Zuckerberg's claim that their program is censorship, calling it false

Published on Jan 10, 2025 06:10 PM IST
AFP |
Meta ends 10 fact-checker partnerships, some don't expect to survive: Report
Meta had informed International Fact-Checking Network that it was ending its partnerships just 45 minutes before it published a blog post about the decision.

Published on Jan 09, 2025 03:54 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan
Social media unfairly antagonised? Study reveals no link with poor mental health
Study debunks the popular association of poor mental health with social media with its surprising findings.

Published on Jan 07, 2025 01:49 PM IST
UP man lands in Pak jail after crossing border to marry ‘Facebook’ lover
Badal Babu tried to cross the border illegally to meet Sana Rani. He was arrested last week in Mandi Bahauddin district of Pakistan's Punjab province

Updated on Jan 02, 2025 09:28 PM IST
Malaysian woman loses ₹4 crore in decade-long love scam without meeting scammer
A Malaysian woman was duped into transferring over RM2.2 million across 306 transactions over nearly a decade in a love scam.

Published on Dec 18, 2024 11:25 AM IST
Meta fined €250 million by Ireland data body over a 2018 breach
The breach arose from the exploitation by unauthorised third parties of user tokens on the Facebook platform.

Published on Dec 18, 2024 10:17 AM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Shivam Pratap Singh
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down for thousands of users globally
Users of the desktop and mobile versions of the platforms owned by Meta faced issues with logging in and uploading content

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 06:21 AM IST
Georgian woman finds her Facebook friend of three years is her biological father
A Georgian woman found her birth father after discovering they had been Facebook friends for years, reconnecting with him and her biological family.

Published on Dec 03, 2024 06:11 PM IST
Social media sites ask Australia to delay ban on users under 16 by a year
The law could lead to fines up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) on social media platforms if they don't prevent children from having accounts

Updated on Nov 25, 2024 04:05 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan
Instagram, Facebook users in Europe to get less personalised ads, low-cost plans
In the coming weeks, Meta will also lower the cost of ad-free subscriptions by about 40% for users in Europe.

Published on Nov 12, 2024 09:44 PM IST
US woman tries to sell her newborn baby for $150 on Facebook, arrested
A Texas woman was arrested for attempting to sell her newborn on Facebook, demanding money from prospective adoptive parents in exchange for the child.

Published on Nov 06, 2024 12:08 PM IST
Is Sundar Pichai’s ultimate horror an Error 404? See Google CEO’s Halloween look
Sundar Pichai shared Halloween photos of Google's ‘Howl-o-ween,’ featuring dogs in costumes and his own festive outfit.

Published on Nov 02, 2024 08:55 AM IST
View: How governments can blunt power of foreign-owned social media companies
Governments across the globe have been fighting a 'war' against foreign involvement in public affairs, particularly through social media platforms.

Updated on Nov 01, 2024 05:33 PM IST