As Donald Trump is just a few hours away from becoming US' 45th President, Barack Obama took to Facebook, shared his farewell letteron Facebook. Expressing gratitude to the American people, Obama on Thursday wrote: "Throughout these eight years, you have been the source of goodness, resilience, and hope from which I've pulled strength. I've seen...
January 20, 2017On social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, emojis and emoticons have replaced non-verbal cues like facial movements, voice pitch and other gestures to clarify a message, a study has found. More than 90 per cent of online population uses emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails. Researchers from the Edge Hill University...
January 18, 2017On social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, emojis and emoticons have replaced non-verbal cues like facial movements, voice pitch and other gestures to clarify a message, a study has found. More than 90 per cent of online population uses emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails. Researchers from the Edge Hill University...
January 18, 2017The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking to put in place regulation to protect the privacy of contents of messages of WhatsApp and Facebook users. The court also issued notices to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, online messaging service WhatsApp and the social networking site Facebook. Chief Justice...
January 16, 2017Facebook stopped working for many users across the globe on Friday as its app stopped showing updates on Timeline and News Feed did not refresh, the media reported. However, shortly after the snag, Facebook fixed the issue. "Earlier today some people may have had trouble accessing some Facebook services for a short period," a Facebook spokesperson confirmed...
January 14, 2017Facebook stopped working for many users across the globe on Friday as its app stopped showing updates on Timeline and News Feed did not refresh, the media reported. However, shortly after the snag, Facebook fixed the issue. "Earlier today some people may have had trouble accessing some Facebook services for a short period," a Facebook spokesperson confirmed...
January 14, 2017To give publishers additional control and flexibility over their broadcasts, Facebook has rolled out a feature enabling users to go live through a web browser to Pages. "A variety of broadcast types – like daily vlogs – benefit from an easy, stable camera setup, and bringing Live to laptops and desktops will make this style...
January 12, 2017Facebook has acquired emotion detection start-up FacioMetrics to push its artificial intelligence (AI) research into building facial gesture controls. FacioMetrics developed an app called Intraface that can detect seven different emotions in people’s faces, TechCrunch reported on Thursday. “Future applications of deep learning platform on mobile: Gesture-based controls, recognize facial expressions and perform related actions,”...
November 17, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter has said. Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for...
November 16, 2016Facebook accidentally declared live users dead, acknowledging after fixing the problem that it had committed a “terrible error.” “For a brief period, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP. “This was a terrible error that we have now fixed.” Media reports indicated that some two...
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