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  TikTok India Return Rumours Debunked by Company: Report

  TikTok on Friday denied circulating reports that it had been unbanned in India. The app was first banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in June 2020, due to concerns regarding national security and data privacy. The rumours of a possible comeback surfaced on Friday, after the official website of the Chinese social...

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  Meta Is Rolling Out a Template-Style Generative AI-Powered Video Editing Tool

  Meta is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) video editing tool in the US and a dozen more countries across the world. On Wednesday, the Menlo Park-based tech giant announced that more than 50 preset AI prompts were being added to the Meta AI app, Meta.AI website, and the new Edits app, and they can change various aspects of a video.

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  X Restores Access After Thousands of Users Report X Website and App Not Working

  X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing widespread outages, including in India, with users unable to load posts or videos on both the website and mobile apps this Saturday. Reports on a popular downtime tracking website confirm the inaccessibility. While the X developer platform indicated a site-wide outage was resolved days ago, some login-related fu...

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  Reddit's AI-Powered Answers Chatbot Is Now Available to Users in India

  Reddit is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot to more users. Dubbed Reddit Answers, the chatbot is now available in India, and users can access it via the website, mobile web, as well as Android and iOS apps. The discussion forum-style social media platform first began testing the feature in December 2024.

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  Elon Musk’s Grok AI Made Available to All X Users: How to Access the Chatbot

  Elon Musk-owned xAI has silently released the free version of Grok. The company’s native artificial intelligence (AI) model is now available to all users on X, although with certain limitations. Grok AI’s interface can be accessed via both the desktop website and mobile app. While there is a rate limit on the free tier, users can access all the...

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  Meta Says App Stores Should Police Australia Under-16 Social Media Ban

  Australia will impose a ban on social media for people aged under 16 despite calls by Meta Platforms for it to consider shifting responsibility for policing. The legislation will be brought before parliament in the week beginning November 18.

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  X Down? Several Users Report Outage Across the Globe, Including India

  X (formerly Twitter) suffered an outage in India and globally during the early hours of Wednesday. The microblogging website, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, left users unable to access it or its features on both mobile and web platforms. Over 20,000 user reports were logged on a website which detects and monitors downtime activity.

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  Reddit to Update Web Standard to Block Automated Data Scraping From Its Website

  Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a Web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems.

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  Instagram's Threads Updated With TweetDeck-Style View, Multi-Column Feeds on Desktop Website

  Threads has rolled out a new TweetDeck-style view in addition to other features for desktop users. The new layout brings the ability to pin feeds in on the home screen, creating a custom multi-column desktop view. A new auto-update option has also been introduced that brings up new posts without having to refresh.

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  YouTube Playables Feature With Over 75 Free-to-Play Games Rolls Out to All Users

  YouTube expanded its Playables feature to all its users on Tuesday. This feature offers a collection of games to users of the video-streaming service, without any downloads. First introduced in November 2023, it now offers a collection of over 75 free-to-play games including Angry Birds Showdown, Cut the Rope and more.

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  Meta AI Gets Upgraded With Llama 3 to Add New Features, Better Integration

  Meta AI is getting a massive upgrade. On Thursday, the social media giant announced two new Llama 3 artificial intelligence (AI) models, the Llama 3 8B and 70B, which are said to offer improved capabilities compared to the predecessor. Alongside, the company also upgraded its native AI assistant with Llama 3 models. Meta AI can now respond more eff...

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  Facebook Introduces 'Link History' on Mobile App to Track Websites You Visit: How to Enable or Disable It

  Facebook has introduced a ‘Link History’ setting on its mobile app that keeps track of all the websites you’ve visited on the platform in the last 30 days. The setting, now available on the Facebook app on both iOS and Android, is an optional one but is turned on by default. Facebook users are reportedly getting an in-app pop-up that informs ...

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  X Restores Access After Thousands of Users Report App, Website Not Working [Updated]

  X (formerly Twitter) is down and users have reported that they cannot access posts on the microblogging platform. The outage appears to have started at 11am on Thursday and users cannot see posts on the website or mobile apps.

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  Meta Starts Rolling Out Web Version of Threads to Gain an Edge Over Rival X

  Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter. Threads' users will be able to access the microblogging platform by logging-in to its website from their computers, the Facebook and Instagram ow...

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  Elon Musk's X Adds 5-Second Delay to Links for NY Times, Reuters and Social Media Rivals Like Facebook: Report

  Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.