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Farrukhabad (UP): A 23-year-old zardozi artist from Farrukhabad fell in love with a girl on Facebook. After their love blossomed, he learnt that the girl was a Pakistani. Mohd Jamal, however, was undeterred and he went to Pakistan earlier this month and married the girl, Eram, on June 17. Jamal’s father Alimuddin said, “Now, we […]
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San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off a nonprofit organisation that will train lawyers to fight Big Tech. According to a report in Politico, Haugen wants to start ‘Beyond the Screen’ […]
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Mathura: Miffed over not accepting his friend request on social media, a youth here allegedly killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her mother, police said on Monday. Accused Ravi is a resident of Muzaffanagar, Superintendent of Police (city) Martand Prakash Singh said. A case has been registered based on a complaint by the girl’s father […]
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Hyderabad: What started as a fictional concept in 1992 is slowly becoming a reality – albeit in the virtual world. Metaverse, which was first coined by Neal Stephenson in his fictional book Snow Crash has over the past few years gained prominence – thanks to Facebook which has transformed into Meta. The Facebooks, Microsofts and […]
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San Francisco: Facebook (now Meta) employees have reportedly been directed by the senior executives to change the platform’s algorithms to make it more like its arch Chinese rival TikTok that is gaining immense popularity among the teenagers. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Tom Alison who’s Meta executive in charge of Facebook detailed […]
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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 by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Markup found that Facebook is already collecting data about people who visit the websites […]
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Kothagudem: Mexican hackers targetted a facebook community page created with the name Bhadrachalam Temple City (Bhadradri Divya Kshetram) and posting of obscene pictures on the page. It was alleged that obscene photos were being posted on the page in the past few days hurting the sentiments of the devotees. A devotee Kona Anand Sharma of […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook’s dark mode interface for iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users. According to 9to5Mac, the dark mode option in Facebook for iOS has disappeared without explanation. While this is likely a bug, the tech giant has not acknowledged the issue or provided a timeline for a fix. Facebook users have taken […]
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New Delhi: Meta on Tuesday rolled out updated 3D Avatars on Facebook, Messenger and for the first time on Instagram stories and direct messages in India. Meta, earlier known as Facebook, is also adding new facial shapes and assistive devices for people with disabilities. “Representations in the metaverse should reflect the diversity of the real […]
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Hyderabad: An engineering dropout, who pretended to be a woman and duped another man of Rs.45 lakh after befriending him on Facebook was arrested by the Hyderabad Cybercrime Police on Wednesday. Mothe Ashok, 28, a native of Nuzvid in Krishna district, created an account on Facebook using the name Indhusha Tummala. After checking a few […]
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San Francisco: Due to “low usage”, Facebook is reportedly discontinuing several services that tracked your real-time location, including Nearby Friends, location history and background location. In a notification sent to people who have used the feature in the past, the tech giant said it will stop collecting data associated with these features on May 31 […]
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Mancherial: Kondapalli Sharath, a young farmer from Nennal mandal, found an innovative way to sell mangoes and reaped good results too. He used WhatsApp and Facebook to directly sell Mangoes to customers in several districts of Telangana instead of selling the mangoes to agents, who are known to offer less price to the farmer, but […]
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Hyderabad: A young music director, who got friendly with a stranger on Facebook, has now approached the police, saying he got a nude video call from the woman, after which strangers threatened and extorted money from him using morphed videos. According to the police, the victim, a resident of Krishna Nagar in Jubilee Hills, had […]
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San Francisco: Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 million (year-on-year). While Facebook (now Meta) had reported its first loss in the number of DAUs last quarter, Twitter’s monetizable DAUs […]
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Hyderabad: Paving way for future policy launches and proving that the State is always at the forefront of using emerging technologies will be the launch of SpaceTech Framework through Metaverse. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Telangana government is all set to launch its SpaceTech Framework through a Metaverse platform that has been developed by Hyderabad-based […]
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Orlando: According to a new study, parents who share photos of their children on social networking sites tend to have a more friend-like parenting style and allow their kids to use social media at younger ages. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘Computing Machinery’. These parents also tend to share posts […]
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San Francisco: Months after tech giant Apple launched App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a new analysis has predicted its second year will still see major disruption to advertisers, with Facebook, YouTube and more collectively losing around $16 billion. According to AppleInsider, the tech giant released its feature in iOS 14 on April 26, last year, and […]
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New Delhi: Vyapam scam whistleblower Anand Rai’s lawyer on Monday told the Supreme Court that Anand Rai has got bail from a local court in Madhya Pradesh. A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud observed that Anand Rai has been released on bail on April 7, 2022, by a local court in Madhya Pradesh. The […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]
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San Francisco: Meta has announced not to hold its flagship Facebook F8 developer conference this year, as it gears up for new initiatives towards metaverse. Meta will instead organise its “inaugural business messaging event”, called Conversations, on May 19. “Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in programming and will not hold […]
