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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 also introducing channels, which are…
Meta, Ministry of Tribal Affairs to digitally skill 10 lakh tribal youth
New Delhi : Meta (formerly Facebook) on Tuesday extended its collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to provide digital skill training for 10 lakh tribal youth and women in the country.The tech giant launched the second phase of…
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, Visually-Informed…
Facebook Pay now becomes Meta Pay
San Francisco : Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that the company is changing the name of Facebook Pay to Meta Pay.Meta Pay will stay the same easy way to shop, send money, and donate to causes users care about on Facebook, Instagram,…
Meta will not take commission from creators until 2024
San Francisco : Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company will "hold off on any revenue sharing" until 2024, a one-year extension of his prior pledge to not charge a commission until 2023.According to Engadget, creators on…
Meta agrees to stop algorithmic discrimination in housing ads
San Francisco : Meta (formerly Facebook) has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the US government that accused the social network of engaging in discriminatory advertising for housing on its platform.
The housing discrimination lawsuit,…
Facebook’s tools tracking people seeking abortion services : Report
San Francisco : Meta-owned Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers and allowing anti-abortion organisations to use that data to target and influence people online, media reports say.A joint investigation…
One-third top US hospitals’ websites sent patient data to Facebook: Report
Washington : About 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sending sensitive patient data to Facebook, now known as Meta, via a tracking tool installed on their websites, according to a media report.Whenever a person schedules a doctor's…
Meta rolls out parental controls for Quest VR headsets
San Francisco : Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced that it is adding parental controls to all Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets that will allow parents to keep a tab on underage users' screen time and receive approval requests for…
UK appeals court upholds ruling to block Meta’s Giphy acquisition
London : An appeals tribunal in the UK has upheld a previous ruling directing Meta (formerly Facebook) to unwind its $315 million acquisition of online database and search engine Giphy.In November last year, the UK Competition and Markets…