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Meta Platforms's Instagram was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.More than 5,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the United States at the peak of the outage, Downdetector's data showed.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive…

Credit: The Conversation Public interest journalism was already under significant stress in Australia. And now the pressure is ratcheting up even further. While still experiencing the pandemic's aftershocks, the industry has simultaneously been hit with the increasing cost of doing business, rising costs of living and declining advertising spend. All…

Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website. "We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media. Meta's status dashboard showed the…

Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and Instagram’s owner a formal request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking it to provide more detail on the “Subscription for no Ads options” it gives regional users of its two major social networks. “In particular, Meta should provide additional information on the measures it has taken to comply with its…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Meta-owned Threads has announced plans to make its application programming interface (API) available to developers by June this year. Currently, the company is testing this with a small group of partners and independent developers. API development According to IANS, Threads engineer Jesse Chen mentioned that over the…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is touring Asia countries this week, said in a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday that Meta wants to beef up its cooperation with Samsung Electronics for AI chips to offset geopolitical risk issue in Taiwan, where TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer, is headquartered. Zuckerberg and Yoon also discussed ways to expand cooperation in artificial intelligence and extended reality industries, a South Korean presidential official said in a briefing…

A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Instagram unless they agreed to be tracked and profiled so it could keep running its attention-mining microtargeting ad business, has triggered a set of complaints from consumer rights groups. The complaints are being brought under the bloc’s data protection rules. Currently, Meta charges regional users €9.99/month on web (or €12.99/month on mobile) to opt out of seeing…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will make it easier to share your QR code, a unique code that people can scan to add you as a contact. Currently, you have to go to the settings to find your QR code, but soon, there might be a shortcut right in your chats tab. This means you can share your QR code with friends without…

Meta's $299 Ray-Ban smart glasses June Wan/ZDNETWhile AR glasses, including the ill-fated Google Glass, have been around in some form for several years now, they've mostly struggled to find a foothold in the market. Mark Zuckerberg is out to change that, as Meta is set to reveal its first "true" augmented reality glasses this fall at the company's Connect event for third-party developers, according to Business Insider.Also: The most jaw-dropping demo at MWC was from a brand I wasn't expecting to seeThe glasses, not…

Meta Platforms' Oversight Board said on Thursday it would include social media platform Threads under its purview, allowing users to appeal the company's content moderation decisions.The board said, in addition to the 130 million people using Threads, Meta will also be able to refer cases about content on the social media platform.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in…