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Facebook, Instagram ban users who offer abortion pills via mail posts
San Francisco : Facebook and Instagram have removed posts from users who offered abortion pills via mail posts.Facebook removed such posts, and also temporarily banned some of those users, on the same day when the Supreme Court overturned…
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…
Google taking steps to exempt political emails from Gmail spam: Report
San Francisco : Tech giant Google is taking steps to ensure that emails from the US political campaigns reach users' Gmail inboxes instead of automatically getting dumped into the spam folder, media reports said.
The tech giant has asked…
Google to shut down Hangouts, tell users to switch to Chat
San Francisco : Tech giant Google has announced that it is now starting the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat, which it announced in October 2020.
The company mentioned that users who wish to keep a copy of their…
Google invests in Indian fintech startup Progcap
New Delhi : Google has invested in Indian startup Progcap that caters to small and medium-sized businesses, as it raised $40 million in its Series C funding round.
The funding into Progcap, which serves more than 700,000 small retailers…
Google makes Earth Engine available to businesses, govts
New Delhi : Google on Tuesday rolled out Earth Engine, a leading technology for planetary-scale environmental monitoring, to businesses and governments worldwide as an enterprise-grade service through Google Cloud.
Google Earth Engine,…
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 and consumption…
Elon Musk crosses 100 mn followers on Twitter
San Francisco : As the tech billionaire Elon Musk celebrates his 51st birthday, his Twitter account has now crossed the mark of 100 million followers, which makes him one of only six people in the world to cross this milestone on the…
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…