Meta Platforms has hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial-intelligence networking technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the hirings in response to a request for comment, after Reuters identified 10 people whose LinkedIn profiles said they worked at Graphcore until December 2022…
The USÂ Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta’s Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on making money from minors’ data. Specifically, the FTC said Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their…
A US appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta’s Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law. Dozens of states led by New York asked the USÂ Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which USÂ District…
Cloud storage provider Dropbox said on Thursday it would reduce its global workforce by 16 percent to cut costs amid slowing cloud growth, and instead hire new talent to build its AI offerings. San Francisco, California-based Dropbox is the latest tech company to tap AI as Big Tech players from Microsoft to Facebook-parent…
The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers “the second draft of history”, is one of…
Meta Verified was launched earlier this year in February. Albeit, inspired by Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue plan, Meta Verified is a subscription-based service that verifies each profile with a legitimate government ID. The program rolled out in Australia and New Zealand previously before launching in the US earlier this month….
Gwyneth Paltrow is being roasted for her viral quote about losing “half a day of skiing” — and Busy Philipps is getting in on the fun. One day after the Goop founder’s testimony in her ski crash court case made headlines, Philipps posted a serious Instagram selfie while out for…
Meta Platforms on Friday launched its subscription service in the US, which would allow Facebook and Instagram users pay for verification in the same vein as Elon Musk-owned Twitter. The Meta Verified service will give users a blue badge after they verify their accounts using a government ID and will cost…
Alphabet-owned YouTube said on Tuesday it lifted restrictions on former US President Donald Trump’s channel, following a more than two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. Meta Platforms had reinstated Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts earlier this year, while his Twitter account was restored in November by…
At first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. But look more closely and things get a little strange. Firstly, there are two glowing earrings in the image hanging in the Mauritshuis museum in the Dutch city of The…
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