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Mark Zuckerberg released a song as a duet with rapper T-Pain - but Instagram seems to be blocking it

While Elon Musk is building his political career, Mark Zuckerberg is trying his hand at the music business. The head of Meta yesterday released his debut song titled "Z-Pain" — a cover of "Get Low" by Lil Jon, recorded at a slower tempo and featurin...

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A rare species of bee prevented Mark Zuckerberg from building a nuclear data center

In the competition to create infrastructure for artificial intelligence, Mark Zuckerberg encountered an unexpected obstacle — a rare species of bees residing on the site designated for Meta's nuclear-powered data center construction. According to th...

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Meta is developing its own AI-powered search engine to reduce reliance on Google and Bing

Meta Platforms is developing an artificial intelligence-based search engine to reduce its reliance on Google and Bing. This information is reported by The Information, citing a source involved in the strategy development.According to the source, a we...

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Meta fired 20 employees for "fraud" with grocery vouchers - they were spent on laundry detergent and acne patches

Meta has terminated approximately twenty employees in Los Angeles for misusing meal vouchers intended for purchasing personal or household items (such as pads, laundry detergent, or wine glasses). According to Arstechnica, some workers pooled their f...

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Modified Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses find all the data of a stranger by face

Two students utilized Meta smart glasses to swiftly identify any strangers on the street. Moreover, the device locates personal information about individuals, including their home address and contact details. Although the creators state they do not p...

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Meta and OpenAI executives were sent creepy packages with "six-fingered" gloves on them

Six-fingered gloves serve as a reference to the outcomes of neural networks, which frequently add extra fingers to people's images in their creations. It turns out that the initiative originated from the Finnish startup Saidot, which expressed its co...

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Meta fined nearly $102 million for storing passwords as plain text

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta $101.5 million. The penalty was imposed due to violations of user password storage regulations. The issue was discovered in January 2019 when it became clear that some user passwords were sto...

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Meta has revealed Orion AR glasses - with artificial intelligence and projectors to display holograms

During the Meta Connect event, the company unveiled information about its "fully holographic" augmented reality glasses, now named Orion. Meta is investing a lot of technology into this device, which has not yet been released to the market. Five year...

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Meta updated Ray-Ban smart glasses - more AI with live translation, reminders and QR code scanning

Meta's smart glasses, Ray-Ban, first unveiled last year, have received a significant update aimed at enhancing the device's intelligence. Among the new features is the "Reminders" function — the glasses can take pictures of what you're looking at and...

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Meta revealed the "budget" Quest 3S headset - Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, 2.5 hours of battery life and a $300 price tag

Meta has officially unveiled its new headset, the Quest 3S — a blend of the Quest 2 and Quest 3, but at a more affordable price point. The Meta Quest 3S offers the same mixed reality features and performance as the Quest 3, powered by the Qualcomm Sn...

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Not three years later: Meta banned Russian state media on Facebook and Instagram

The company Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has announced a ban on RT and other Russian state media across its platforms. Currently, the RT pages are absent on Facebook and Instagram. For many years, Meta had implemented m...

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Meta AI chatbot passed off a Business Insider journalist's number as its own - now the man is being terrorized by strangers

Business Insider journalist Rob Price discovered an issue with the privacy of his personal phone number after being added to a group chat where he was bombarded with random questions in Spanish. When Price inquired about who had added him to the grou...

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Meta has shut down Ready at Dawn, the 21-year-old studio behind The Order: 1886 and God of War: Chains of Olympus

The studio was acquired by Meta just a year and a half ago. According to Android Central, Meta has closed Ready at Dawn Studios following the July announcement regarding a 20% budget cut for its Reality Labs division through 2026. Founded in 2003 by...

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Turkey blocks Instagram without explanation - media link decision to Hamas leader's assassination

Recently, the country criticized Instagram for the mass deletion of posts expressing condolences over the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya. Turkey has blocked access to the social media platform Instagram, according to a statement from the local i...

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Instagram bloggers can create chatbots that respond to fan messages

Next time you send a message to a creator on Instagram, be aware that you might be conversing with artificial intelligence. Meta is gradually launching AI Studio on Instagram — a toolkit that will allow influencers, among other things, to create thei...

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