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Millions of users in India can now use Meta AI in feeds, chats, and more across apps to accomplish tasks, create content, and explore topics without leaving the app, the company announced.

Website outage tracking website Downdetector showed more than one lakh reports of Facebook being down, and the number was increasing

The end-to-end encrypted conversations also offer additional functionality including the ability to edit messages, higher media quality and disappearing messages.

TechCrunch reports that at present, app users are getting a message instructing them to "keep chatting using Messenger."

San Francisco: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is adding a new Slack-like “@everyone” functionality that will notify all participants in a chat about a new message. When you start a message with @everyone, all participants in the chat will be notified. @everyone is perfect for group reminders, impromptu get-togethers or when you need to gather […]

The new quick reply bar to the Messenger media viewer makes it easier to have conversations sparked by a cool photo or video without needing to go back to your main chat thread.

The company said that while it expects to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year.

"Kids are increasingly asking their parents if they can join apps that help them keep up with their friends," Mosseri said in a tweet.

The smartwatch is expected to be feature loaded and would join Facebook's Oculus virtual reality headsets as well as Portal video chat devices as part of the social network's growing hardware ecosystem.

Greeting each other on festivals has changed as with WhatsApp, FaceTime, Messenger and other messaging and video calling apps taking over what cards used to do earlier

Currently, the Snapchat-inspired Vanish Mode will work on individual chats and not group chats, reports The Verge.