San Francisco: The Facebook profiles of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan cannot be blocked because they have reportedly been blocked so many times that the social media giant is stopping it happening. When people do not want to see your posts, they will either unfriend you, stop following you or they will block […]
London: Parents must intervene to stop their children overusing social media and consuming time online “like junk food”, according to a top official. In an interview on Saturday, Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield slammed the ways social media giants use to draw children into spending more time. She said parents should be proactive in […]
London: Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman got slammed over social media after some of his fans reportedly walked out of his concert at Wembley Stadium because many of the songs he sang were in Tamil. Rahman performed the concert “Netru, Indru, Naalai”(Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) at the London event on July 8. However, according to reports, […]
San Francisco: As the people have started questioning social media sites about their role in countering terrorism, Facebook said that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to remove the terror-related content. The social media giant is currently focusing their techniques to combat terrorist content about Islamic State (IS), Al-Qaeda and their affiliates. “Although our use of […]
Moscow: In the age of social media, a worrying trend of sharing private and sensitive content with strangers is fast growing among youngsters, Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday. Almost 93 per cent of internet users share their information digitally, with 45 per cent of them sharing their private and sensitive videos […]
London: Instant messaging app WhatsApp on Wednesday encountered an outage with users across the globe reporting problems accessing the service. Issues with the Facebook-owned app, which is used by 1 billion people worldwide, included sending and receiving messages and logging in, the Independent reported. According to monitoring website Down Detector, hundreds of people complained about […]
New York: Facebook has brought back its purple flower emoji for Mother’s Day, the social media giant reported in a blogpost on Saturday. The purple flower — which stands for thankful — is added to the list of reactions that are available in every story, status update or pictures that are shared on Facebook. “When […]
London: WhatsApp has been fined over $3.3 million in Italy for ‘forcing’ users to share their personal data with its parent company Facebook. The popular chat app has been asked by all of the 28 European Union data protection authorities to stop sharing users’ data with Facebook as there were doubts over the validity of […]
New Delhi: People thronged Twitter after social media giant Facebook on Tuesday faced an outage in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and some parts of North America. Facebook users got an error message: “Sorry, something went wrong and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” Later, a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an emailed […]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has called for wider and more active use of social and new media for publicising work being done by the central and the state government, an official said on Thursday. The Chief Minister gave the direction during a late night review of the working of the Department of […]
New York: Micro-blogging site Twitter will soon allow media firms to post live streaming videos directly into the service, media reports said. According to a report in the Information on Thursday, Twitter will allow media firms to plug directly into Twitter’s software to go live by opening its streaming application programming interface (API) to them. “Twitter […]
New York: Facebook videos continue to dominate the social media, driving growth, engagement and media consumption, a new report has said. Social media analytics platform Quintly examined 167,000 profiles during the last six months of 2016 and found that 47 per cent of those profiles used video of some sort in their Facebook campaigns, including video […]
London: Certain words used on social media platforms like Flickr can warn us about extreme weather events before they happen — such as hurricanes, storms and floods, suggests new research. Photographs and key words posted online can signal weather risks developing in specific locations and times — for example, posts about water levels rising can alert […]
Bhadrak: Officials today stepped up the process of assessing the damage in Bhadrak town, where violence had erupted over alleged abusive remarks against Hindu deities on social media. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, during his visit to the arson-hit town yesterday, had directed the officials to make a detailed assessment of the damage and report within […]
Cuttack: A man was arrested for allegedly posting obscene pictures of his wife and sending her derogatory messages on social media at Kerilo village under Nemalo police limits in Cuttack district on Wednesday. Based on a complaint filed by the woman and her family members, the accused Bikash Ranjan Singh was arrested by the Nemalo […]
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