[ Several people are typing, and they’re all saying Netflix’s Leave the World Behind is wildly prescient. The movie, directed by Sam Esmail, opens on a world where communication has been knocked out following a cyberattack. And earlier this week, when nearly all of Meta’s platforms—Facebook, Instagram, Threads—went down, people took to (other) social media … Read more
[ Meta, like other leading tech companies, has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence. Today it acknowledged it must also respond to the technology’s hazards, announcing an expanded policy of tagging AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads with warning labels to inform people of their artificial … Read more
[ SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Tuesday said it is working with other tech firms on standards that will let it better detect and label artificial intelligence-generated images shared with its billions of users. The Silicon Valley social media titan expects to have a system in place in a matter of months to identify and tag … Read more
[ Rachel Lambert, a product manager at Meta, started her company’s journey towards interoperability by breaking Adam Mosseri’s Threads account. In December, Meta activated a test where users could follow the head of Instagram’s Threads feed on an open-source social media platform, Mastodon. But when users tried to view Mosseri’s posts over on Mastodon, nothing … Read more
[ By Online Desk Threads, the new challenger to Twitter, is now live. and millions of people have already signed up. But many of us are still confused whether to join or not. Here are ten points that may help you decide: Easy Sign-ups: Got an Instagram account? Then, all you need to do is download the … Read more
[ By Online Desk Amid speculation of a ‘cage fight’ between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Meta on Thursday introduced the ‘Threads’ app to the social media world in more than 100 countries for both IOS and Android. It’s pretty clear that the app is a direct competitor to Twitter, … Read more
[ By PTI NEW DELHI: Some users on microblogging site Twitter are shifting to third-party apps since the company has made verification necessary within 30 days for accessing TweetDeck, a move which industry watchers believe could give an edge to rival platforms. Since the removal of Teams feature from the Elon Musk-led app, reported outages … Read more
[ Express News Service NEW DELHI: Twitter has always been in the news for both positive and negative reasons. But ever since it was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion, it has consistently remained in the headlines for mostly the wrong reasons—restoring controversial accounts, paid bluetick subscriptions, daily limits on the number of tweets … Read more
[ By Express News Service Here are some recent updates from the tech world. Meta’s Twitter rival Threads had a promising start with 10 million sign-ups in seven hours. French MPs demand a ban on video-sharing platform Tik Tok and Open Al formed a dedicated team to tackle the problem of artificial superintelligence going rouge. 10 million users … Read more
[ Online Desk Like in Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’ movie, everyone is a superhero in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, traversing between multiple dimensions – Facebook, Instagram, and now, Threads. Unless you have been living under a rock for a while, there is no way that you could’ve missed the Metaverse of madness. The newest addition to Meta – … Read more
