Ivan Mehta
Five months after its launch in July, Meta’s social network Threads is now finally available to people living in the European Union.
In a post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is opening up Threads to more countries in Europe.
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C01LXhDrCAM
The Threads.net website has a “Use without a profile” mode,...
Instagram introduced its generative AI-powered background editing tool to U.S.-based users Wednesday.
Meta’s lead for generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle posted on Threads saying that the tool will let users change the background to their images through prompts for Stories.
When users will tap on the background editor icon on an image...
Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other ActivityPub protocol-supported networks.
“Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I’m pretty optimistic about this,” Zuckerberg said in...
With two large-scale elections in the U.S. in India next year, Threads aims to introduce a fact-checking checking program to the social network.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the social platform currently matches ratings from Facebook or Instagram to similar content. But next year fact-checkers will have tools to...
Independent music distribution service DistroKid launched its Android app today months after the company launched the iOS app.
The Android app has similar capabilities to its iOS counterpart, which has been downloaded over half a million times. Artists can upload their tracks directly from their phones, get alerts for payments,...
WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to pin chats within one-on-one and group conversations. The company said users can pin all kinds of conversations, including text, polls, images and emojis. However, users can pin only one chat at a time.
The Meta-owned chat app mentioned that you can pin a...
Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules.
Musk ran a user poll on X...
OpenAI is working with former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as a senior advisor to facilitate talks with the government about AI policy, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. OpenAI is also looking to set up a local team in India.
People familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that Jaitly has been helping...
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to tag only one topic per post to avoid tag spam.
The company began testing the tag feature in Australia last month, and...
After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger. In an announcement, Mark Zuckerberg said that personal chats and calls will get default end-to-end encryption. However, encryption for group chats still remains an opt-in feature.
End-to-end encryption is an important security...
