Tag: meta
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter Blue goes live in the UK
Twitter Blue, the social media platform’s subscription service that allows users to buy a blue verification badge for the first time, has gone live in the UK. Twitter users on Apple’s iOS can now sign up and pay for the service, which will give them the blue-tick badge next to their profile name on the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta to slash 13% of workforce
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has become the latest big tech player to wield the axe in the tougher global economy, laying off 13% of its workforce. The firm announced on Wednesday it will cut its global headcount by more than 11,000 employees as part of a wider shake-up of the business that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Facebook groups using carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content
Image: BBC Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools. The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji appears in place of the word "vaccine". Facebook's algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images.…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Leak reveals Samsung launch event details
Just one week before the next Galaxy Unpacked 2022 event, all the upcoming Samsung products have been leaked. Legendary leakster Evan Blass (@evleaks) published high-resolution press renders of the Galaxy Z Flip 4, Galaxy Z Fold 4, Galaxy Watch 5, Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro in all their regular color variants. This is not the first…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Shaun the Sheep to fly on NASA’s Artemis 1
Image: Aardman Ewe-ston we have a problem? The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its first astronaut to fly on its NASA's Artemis I lunar mission: Shaun the Sheep. No stranger to outer space following his exploits aboard a UFO in his big screen caper Farmageddon, the space-sheep will be going…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta accused of keeping deleted Messenger data
Meta has been accused of secretly keeping users' deleted Messenger data and sharing it with police by a former employee. Brennan Lawson, who worked for the social media company after leaving the US Air Force, has filed a legal complaint alleging that Facebook created a tool to access Messenger data that users thought they had deleted.…
Tech Digest daily roundup: US military hackers support Ukraine
General Paul Nakasone told Sky News that US Cyber Command was conducting operations in support of Ukraine. Pic: NATO CCDCOE US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News. In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Robot chef taught to chew and taste food
Robot chef tastes scrambled eggs and tomatoes. Image: University of Cambridge Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a bot to imitate the human processes of chewing and tasting, in order that they might eventually be able to produce food humans will not only enjoy - but which can also…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Facebook paid consultancy to undermine TikTok
The chief executive of a political consulting firm has responded to a report alleging Meta paid his company to "undermine" TikTok. Internal emails, apparently seen by the Washington Post, allegedly suggested Targeted Victory's campaign aimed to show TikTok "as a danger to American children". Zac Moffatt tweeted that the Post's report mischaracterised their work and "key…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Heineken launches virtual beer in metaverse ‘joke’
Image: Heineken A brewer has created a virtual beer to highlight the extremes businesses will go to to grab a slice of the next big thing - the metaverse. Heineken set up a virtual launch to promote the "product" - an experience described by one attendee as surreal. The metaverse does…