Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are starting to come back online after a widespread outage lasted more than six hours on Monday, disrupting communications for the company’s roughly 3 billion users. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and …
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The person behind a leak of internal Facebook research that served as the basis for a series of news reports about the harm the social network’s platforms cause, publicly revealed herself on 60 Minutes on Sunday. She is a former algorithmic product manager at Facebook named Frances Haugen. Haugen, who worked at Facebook for about two years, told 60 Minutes …
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Facebook on Wednesday released its internal research regarding the impact of Instagram on teens after a Wall Street Journal investigation raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens, including girls’ body image. The report, based on a “trove of internal communications” reviewed by the Journal, prompted US lawmakers to press the world’s largest social network …
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Facebook plans to release internal research on Instagram to Congress and the public after a Wall Street Journal report earlier this month raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens. The social network will share the research in the “next few days,” said Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, during an online …
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TikTok has hit a new milestone, more than 1 billion monthly active users around the world. The popular social video app shared the news in a blog post on Monday. While it still has a long way to go before it catches up to Facebook in terms of users, the short-form video space is competitive, and TikTok is gaining ground …
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Instagram is pausing the development of Instagram Kids, a dedicated service it’s building for children, in order to spend time focusing on developing parental supervision tools. It also intends to use the hiatus to persuade the wider world that the an Instagram app for kids is, in fact, a good and necessary thing. The news that Instagram was working on …
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are fighting back against a new Texas “censorship” law. Trade groups representing the social media giants have sued the state of Texas over the law, arguing that it restricts the First Amendment rights of the companies in question. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB20 into law earlier in September. The law targets social media companies with …
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One well-known thing about iPads: They’re used for Zooms and video chats all the time, but their front-facing cameras aren’t ideally placed. Apple’s newest iPad Mini and entry-level iPad are able to help with the awkwardness, somewhat: Center Stage is a digital zooming tool built into the latest iPad’s wider-angle cameras to automatically keep your face (and your family’s) in …
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Cher Scarlett is a senior-level software engineer who initially learned programming by reading the code in websites she liked. Scarlett was hired to work for Apple about a year and a half ago, but she’s been doing a lot more than coding the past few months. She’s attempted to organize an internal employee compensation survey, publicized worker complaints and helped …
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Nov 2021 All of Apple’s new iPads have relatively fresh designs… except for the basic iPad. While the new iPad Mini just got a total makeover, the ninth-gen non-Pro, non-Mini, non-Air iPad still has that big old circular home button. And it still has big bezels around the screen. There’s no USB-C. No Magic Keyboard or newer Pencil support. But …
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