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Meta AI Is Getting a New Memory Feature and Personalised Recommendations
- Tuesday January 28, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta AI is getting a couple of new upgrades, the company announced on Monday. Meta wants its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to offer a more personalised experience to users, and the two new features will enable it to learn more about users. The first is a memory feature that will allow the chatbot to remember certain information shared by the...
- www.gadgets360.com
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$5,000 To Join Facebook, Instagram: How Meta Is Wooing TikTokers in US
- Thursday January 23, 2025
- World News | Written by Sanstuti Nath
With the shadow of a tumultuous ban still looming over TikTok in the United States, Meta is offering to pay a large sum of money to popular content creators on the "third party" social media app who join Facebook and Instagram.
- www.ndtv.com
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WhatsApp Will Soon Let Users Share WhatsApp Status Automatically on Facebook and Instagram
- Wednesday January 22, 2025
- Written by Shaurya Tomer, Edited by Manas Mitul
WhatsApp will soon benefit from an optional integration with Meta Accounts Centre with the aim of delivering a more connected experience, the company announced on Tuesday. This move will enable users to share their WhatsApp statuses automatically on other Meta Platforms’ apps such as Facebook and Instagram.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta to Cut Roughly Five Percent of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers
- Wednesday January 15, 2025
- Riley Griffin, Bloomberg News
Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting roughly five percent of its staff through performance-based terminations. Affected workers in the US are expected to be notified on February 10, while those based in other countries will be informed at a later date, according to the memo.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Reportedly Testing X-Inspired Community Notes Feature on Threads
- Tuesday January 14, 2025
- Written by Sucharita Ganguly, Edited by David Delima
Threads recently rolled out a new feature that allows users to share photos and videos from other users on the app without quoting the original post. Recently, the microblogging app revealed that it was testing a scheduled post feature. The microblogging site is now reportedly testing a Community Note feature as well. It is expected to be simila...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Add ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of AI Users to Facebook, Instagram
- Thursday January 2, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta reportedly plans to flood its social media platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) bots that will act as regular accounts. As per the report, the tech giant is working on introducing AI-powered characters that can post, share, like, and perform other activities that human users can do. These AI bots are said to be added to both Facebook an...
- www.gadgets360.com
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WhatsApp, Instagram And Facebook Down For Thousands Globally
- Thursday December 12, 2024
- World News | NDTV Newsdesk
Thousands of users across Meta Platforms's social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp reported outages on Wednesday
- www.ndtv.com
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Proposed Australia Law Would Fine Big Tech Over Digital Competition
- Monday December 2, 2024
- Reuters
Australia's centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech's influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
- Friday November 29, 2024
- Reuters
Australia has approved a social media ban for children aged under 16. A trial of methods to enforce it will start in January with the ban to take effect in a year.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Australia Moves Closer to Ban Social Media for Children
- Wednesday November 27, 2024
- Reuters
Australia on Wednesday moved closer to banning social media for children under 16. Australia's House of Representatives passed the bill 102 votes to 13 after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor government secured bipartisan support for the ban.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Will Face Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Acquisitions
- Thursday November 14, 2024
- Reuters
Meta will be facing a trial in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta to Offer Less Personalised Ads in Europe to Appease Regulators
- Wednesday November 13, 2024
- Reuters
Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive "less personalised ads". These ads will also target users based on age, gender, and location, with some being unskippable for a few seconds.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Instagram AI Feature That Lets Users Generate Profile Pictures Spotted in Development
- Tuesday November 12, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by David Delima
Instagram might be working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to upload AI-generated images. A new leak claims that the Meta-owned social media platform is testing a feature that will allow users to use AI models to generate profile pictures using AI. While not a lot is known about the feature at this point, similar...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
- Tuesday October 22, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Instagram’s Threads Rolls Out Activity Status Indicator for Real-Time Engagement With Others
- Wednesday October 16, 2024
- Written by Shaurya Tomer, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Threads is getting a new feature that lets users see if others are online. Similar functionality is already present on Meta’s other social media apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, and Threads is the latest in line to add it. Like its availability on other apps, only users who have turned on this feature will be able to see the activit...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta AI Is Getting a New Memory Feature and Personalised Recommendations
- Tuesday January 28, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta AI is getting a couple of new upgrades, the company announced on Monday. Meta wants its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to offer a more personalised experience to users, and the two new features will enable it to learn more about users. The first is a memory feature that will allow the chatbot to remember certain information shared by the...
- www.gadgets360.com
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$5,000 To Join Facebook, Instagram: How Meta Is Wooing TikTokers in US
- Thursday January 23, 2025
- World News | Written by Sanstuti Nath
With the shadow of a tumultuous ban still looming over TikTok in the United States, Meta is offering to pay a large sum of money to popular content creators on the "third party" social media app who join Facebook and Instagram.
- www.ndtv.com
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WhatsApp Will Soon Let Users Share WhatsApp Status Automatically on Facebook and Instagram
- Wednesday January 22, 2025
- Written by Shaurya Tomer, Edited by Manas Mitul
WhatsApp will soon benefit from an optional integration with Meta Accounts Centre with the aim of delivering a more connected experience, the company announced on Tuesday. This move will enable users to share their WhatsApp statuses automatically on other Meta Platforms’ apps such as Facebook and Instagram.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta to Cut Roughly Five Percent of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers
- Wednesday January 15, 2025
- Riley Griffin, Bloomberg News
Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting roughly five percent of its staff through performance-based terminations. Affected workers in the US are expected to be notified on February 10, while those based in other countries will be informed at a later date, according to the memo.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Reportedly Testing X-Inspired Community Notes Feature on Threads
- Tuesday January 14, 2025
- Written by Sucharita Ganguly, Edited by David Delima
Threads recently rolled out a new feature that allows users to share photos and videos from other users on the app without quoting the original post. Recently, the microblogging app revealed that it was testing a scheduled post feature. The microblogging site is now reportedly testing a Community Note feature as well. It is expected to be simila...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Reportedly Planning to Add ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of AI Users to Facebook, Instagram
- Thursday January 2, 2025
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta reportedly plans to flood its social media platforms with artificial intelligence (AI) bots that will act as regular accounts. As per the report, the tech giant is working on introducing AI-powered characters that can post, share, like, and perform other activities that human users can do. These AI bots are said to be added to both Facebook an...
- www.gadgets360.com
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WhatsApp, Instagram And Facebook Down For Thousands Globally
- Thursday December 12, 2024
- World News | NDTV Newsdesk
Thousands of users across Meta Platforms's social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp reported outages on Wednesday
- www.ndtv.com
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Proposed Australia Law Would Fine Big Tech Over Digital Competition
- Monday December 2, 2024
- Reuters
Australia's centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech's influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
- Friday November 29, 2024
- Reuters
Australia has approved a social media ban for children aged under 16. A trial of methods to enforce it will start in January with the ban to take effect in a year.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Australia Moves Closer to Ban Social Media for Children
- Wednesday November 27, 2024
- Reuters
Australia on Wednesday moved closer to banning social media for children under 16. Australia's House of Representatives passed the bill 102 votes to 13 after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor government secured bipartisan support for the ban.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Will Face Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Acquisitions
- Thursday November 14, 2024
- Reuters
Meta will be facing a trial in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta to Offer Less Personalised Ads in Europe to Appease Regulators
- Wednesday November 13, 2024
- Reuters
Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive "less personalised ads". These ads will also target users based on age, gender, and location, with some being unskippable for a few seconds.
- www.gadgets360.com
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Instagram AI Feature That Lets Users Generate Profile Pictures Spotted in Development
- Tuesday November 12, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by David Delima
Instagram might be working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to upload AI-generated images. A new leak claims that the Meta-owned social media platform is testing a feature that will allow users to use AI models to generate profile pictures using AI. While not a lot is known about the feature at this point, similar...
- www.gadgets360.com
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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
- Tuesday October 22, 2024
- Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
- www.gadgets360.com
-
Instagram’s Threads Rolls Out Activity Status Indicator for Real-Time Engagement With Others
- Wednesday October 16, 2024
- Written by Shaurya Tomer, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna
Threads is getting a new feature that lets users see if others are online. Similar functionality is already present on Meta’s other social media apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, and Threads is the latest in line to add it. Like its availability on other apps, only users who have turned on this feature will be able to see the activit...
- www.gadgets360.com