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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.

Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said that the robotics product group would focus on developing “consumer humanoid robots with a goal of maximising Llama's platform capabilities.” (Representational image)(REUTERS)
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

A guy has been charged by the police in this area for reportedly threatening to murder a former MLA and BJP leader on social media.(AP)
Published on Feb 14, 2025 04:11 PM IST
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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.

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shared an article about CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comments to employees in an all-hands meeting, which was leaked to the media.
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.

15 best Chocolate Day quotes, WhatsApp messages, Facebook status and Instagram captions.(Image by Name Wishes)
Updated on Feb 09, 2025 03:05 PM IST
By, 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

Jesse Eisenberg playing Zuckerberg in The Social Network
Published on Feb 05, 2025 01:56 PM IST
ByAadrika Sominder

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

Distillation is the technique that’s used by developers to train smaller AI models to in theory replicate the capabilities of a larger model (in terms of parameters, and therefore ability to understand and contextualise) (Reuters)
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

Meta announced on Friday that they had begun testing advertisements on their newest social media platform Threads,(AFP)
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

Social networking giant Meta has denied complaints from some users that they are being forced to follow accounts belonging to the new administration of US President Donald Trump(REUTERS/Yves Herman)
Published on Jan 23, 2025 05:33 PM IST
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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.

The data-sharing ban on WhatsApp had been announced in November 2023 by the Competition Commission of India.
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. 

Users found themselves automatically re-following the profiles of US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and First Lady Melania Trump.(Bloomberg)
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.

Users are leaving Meta platforms(AFP)
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.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Left) and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey .(Agencies)
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'.

This photo illustration shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and a phone displaying the download page for the Facebook app. (AFP)
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."

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he has decided to quickly move out low-performers from the company.(AP)
Published on Jan 15, 2025 11:51 AM IST
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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.

Mark Zuckerberg, who dined with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his election win, met with Trump on Friday for the second time ahead of his 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?

This photo illustration created on January 8, 2025, in Brussels, shows the media giant Meta's logo displayed on a smartphone and screen displaying the words
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.

Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, removed tampons from men’s bathrooms.(AFP)
Updated on Jan 11, 2025 02:32 PM IST
ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

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

The International Fact-Checking Network says that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, is
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.

This photo illustration created on January 7, 2025, in Washington, DC, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and a phone displaying the download page for the Facebook app. Social media giant Meta on January 7, 2025, slashed its content moderation policies, including ending its US fact-checking program, in a major shift that conforms with the priorities of incoming president Donald Trump. (Drew Angerer/AFP)
Published on Jan 09, 2025 03:54 PM IST

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. 

Social media is not the sole stressor for mental health issues. (Shutterstock)
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

Badal Babu, an active Facebook user, reportedly connected with a girl from Pakistan. He informed his parents about his plans to go to Delhi for work. (Representational image)
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.

She ended up transferring funds 306 times. (Pexel)
Published on Dec 18, 2024 11:25 AM IST
BySimran singh

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.

The decisions in relation to the breach were made by the Commissioners for Data Protection. (Representative Image)
Published on Dec 18, 2024 10:17 AM IST
By | 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

Whatsapp, as well as Facebook and Instagram, faced a widespread global outage
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.

Adopted woman in Georgia discovered her birth father was a Facebook friend for years.
(Instagram/tamuna_museridze)
Published on Dec 03, 2024 06:11 PM IST
ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

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

A research by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat made $11 billion in advertising from US users under 18 in 2022(Representational Image/Pixabay)
Updated on Nov 25, 2024 04:05 PM IST

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.

This move by Meta comes in response to demands from EU regulators.(AFP)
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.

Woman in Texas was arrested for attempting to sell her newborn baby on Facebook. (Representative image)
(Pixabay)
Published on Nov 06, 2024 12:08 PM IST
ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

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.


Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared cute Halloween photos.(Instagram/sundarpichai)
Published on Nov 02, 2024 08:55 AM IST
ByMahipal Singh Chouhan

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.

Social media giants are also seen to take advantage of the political status of nations to gain profit.(Represenational.)
Updated on Nov 01, 2024 05:33 PM IST
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