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Meta Platforms Inc's independent Oversight Board said that Facebook should not have taken down a newspaper report about the Taliban that it considered positive, backing users' freedom of expression and saying the tech company relied too heavily on automated moderation. Meta found the post on the Taliban announcing that schools and colleges in Afghanistan for women and girls would reopen in March violated Facebook's policies because it "praised" entities deemed to "engage in serious offline harms". The company limited the…

Apple’s ‘Far Out’ event has come and gone, but it left us with many surprises. There were a bunch of new products announced, from the Apple Watch Ultra to the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, and we even got AirPods Pro 2. Many of us are planning on pre-ordering a new iPhone tomorrow morning, but depending on your circumstances, you may want to reconsider.One of the “features” that Apple revealed for both the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro is the removal of the physical SIM card tray, at least in the United States. The main…

Instagram is reportedly rolling back many of its shopping features in a move to drive more direct ad revenue. The Meta-owned photo and video sharing platform's existing shopping page will eventually disappear as the company would concentrate on its e-commerce efforts to those that directly drive advertising. It is reportedly planning to pivot towards a less personalised version of the shopping page, which is internally called "Tab Lite". The new development shows how the company is moving away from some long-term projects…

The union of HBO Max and Discovery+ is already causing pain through layoffs, and now the move is affecting some shows. Warner Bros. Discovery has confirmed to Variety that it's removing 36 titles from HBO Max as soon as this week while it prepares for the Discovery+ platform merger. Most of the productions aren't huge, but they do include recognizable HBO work like the Sesame Street spinoff The Not-too-Late-Show with Elmo and the Peter Dinklage movie My Dinner with Hervé. A handful of Cartoon Network shows are leaving. …

HBO Max is continuing its content removal spree with 36 titles going off the service this week including 20 of its in-house productions. Other titles include originals from HBO and Cartoon Network along with a few acquired titles. The development first reported by Variety noted that this move was aligned with the big HBO Max-Discovery+ merger slotted to take place next year. In order to prepare for the merger, the company has been silently removing titles for some weeks now. Earlier this month,…

Visible has a significant revamp to its Verizon-backed phone service, adding new features and taking away some at the same time. Up until now, the company prided itself on its singular all-digital plan, but now Visible’s single wireless plan has been reworked to cost less and is being offered alongside a brand new option. The two plans now available are called Visible, the reworked original plan, and the all-new Visible Plus. The Visible plan includes unlimited talk, text, data, and hotspot for just $30 per month — a…

Facebook's crackdown on hate speech apparently has room for improvement. As The Washington Post explains, the non-profit watchdog Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has published a study indicating that white supremacist groups still have a significant presence on the social network. Over 80 of these racist organizations have a presence on Facebook, some of which the company has already labeled as "dangerous organizations" it normally bans. Researchers found 119 pages and 20 groups, including 24 pages Facebook auto-generated…

The government is actively considering doing away with a provision which requires international passengers to upload their Covid vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal before flying to India. However, the existing mandate of filling up a self-declaration form online on the portal will continue, official sources told PTI.Passengers have been complaining about the portal being periodically down, difficulty in accessing forms and uploading of certificates, the sources said, adding the removal…

Jennifer Aniston Among Rare Celebrities Who Continues To Stand By Johnny Depp? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ; IMDb ) Johnny Depp has been trying his best to revive his career post the high-profile legal battle with Amber Heard. He witnessed his much-needed redemption after winning the defamation trial that recently took place at the Virgina court. Many celebrities including Kate Moss, Jason Momoa, Robert Downey Jr had been supporting him but that seems to be vanishing again! Is Jennifer Aniston among his…

Representatives for Beyoncé have said that the singer will be removing the ableist slur “spaz” from her newly released album Renaissance, CNN reports. The track in question, “Heated,” sees Beyoncé singing, “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass.” The offensive term is derived from “spastic,” which refers to the medical condition spastic cerebral palsy.Reps for the singer told CNN in a statement that “the word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” It’s currently unclear when the new version of…