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YouTube Exemption From Australian Teen Social Media Ban Opposed by Regulator
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, called on the government to reverse its controversial exemption for YouTube from a social media ban for under-16s. In a blog post, YouTube said Inman Grant’s comments ignored the benefits YouTube offered to school students and teachers.
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Meta Announces Paid Ad-Free Subscription for Facebook, Instagram in Europe
Meta announced a paid ad-free subscription for Facebook and Instagram via a blog post on Monday. Starting next month, Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland can pay a monthly fee to use Meta-owned platforms without ads.
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Two WhatsApp Accounts on One Phone: Meta's New Solution for Users
Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement stating that users can now simultaneously log in with two WhatsApp accounts.
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Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in ...
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Meta Announces New Details on Data Centers for AI Projects
Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...
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Meta's New AI Model SAM Will Let Select Individual Objects From Within Image
Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images ...
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'No Access To Systems, Kept Emails Active For Farewells': Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's parent firm Meta is firing 11,000 employees globally. In a company blog post, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said they have removed access to most Meta systems for people who have been told to leave.
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Read Mark Zuckerberg's Full Statement On Firing 11,000 Meta Employees
Facebook's parent company Meta announced massive layoffs in a blog post on Wednesday. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the same and took "accountability for these decisions and for how we got here."
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EU to Limit Political Advertisements Online; Facebook, Google to Face Fine if They Don't Comply
Concerned by the misuse of political advertising to undermine elections, the European Union unveiled plans to help people better understand when they are seeing such advertisements online and who is responsible for them.
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How Does Instagram Work? Head Adam Mosseri Answers
“How does Instagram decide what shows up for me first?”, “Why do some of my posts get more views than others?”; “How does Instagram decide what to show me in Explore?” — if you have ever wondered about these questions as a user or a creator on Instagram, don't worry. The photo-sharing platform has now been effectively demystified, tha...
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YouTube Exemption From Australian Teen Social Media Ban Opposed by Regulator
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, called on the government to reverse its controversial exemption for YouTube from a social media ban for under-16s. In a blog post, YouTube said Inman Grant’s comments ignored the benefits YouTube offered to school students and teachers.
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Meta Announces Paid Ad-Free Subscription for Facebook, Instagram in Europe
Meta announced a paid ad-free subscription for Facebook and Instagram via a blog post on Monday. Starting next month, Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland can pay a monthly fee to use Meta-owned platforms without ads.
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Two WhatsApp Accounts on One Phone: Meta's New Solution for Users
Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement stating that users can now simultaneously log in with two WhatsApp accounts.
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Meta Releases SeamlessM4T AI Model to Translate Languages in Real-Time
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in ...
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Meta Announces New Details on Data Centers for AI Projects
Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...
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Meta's New AI Model SAM Will Let Select Individual Objects From Within Image
Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images ...
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'No Access To Systems, Kept Emails Active For Farewells': Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's parent firm Meta is firing 11,000 employees globally. In a company blog post, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said they have removed access to most Meta systems for people who have been told to leave.
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Read Mark Zuckerberg's Full Statement On Firing 11,000 Meta Employees
Facebook's parent company Meta announced massive layoffs in a blog post on Wednesday. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the same and took "accountability for these decisions and for how we got here."
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EU to Limit Political Advertisements Online; Facebook, Google to Face Fine if They Don't Comply
Concerned by the misuse of political advertising to undermine elections, the European Union unveiled plans to help people better understand when they are seeing such advertisements online and who is responsible for them.
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How Does Instagram Work? Head Adam Mosseri Answers
“How does Instagram decide what shows up for me first?”, “Why do some of my posts get more views than others?”; “How does Instagram decide what to show me in Explore?” — if you have ever wondered about these questions as a user or a creator on Instagram, don't worry. The photo-sharing platform has now been effectively demystified, tha...
