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Facebook wants to bring back young adults on its platform but they say there’s nothing much it can do to win them

In its July-September 2021 quarterly earnings conference, Meta’s cofounder Mark Zuckerberg seemed a little worried. He was vocal about it, too. He wants to see a shift. A shift that would take years. “We are retooling our teams to make serving young adults their North Star rather than optimising for the larger number of older people,” Zuckerberg said.…
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Russia will ban Instagram in the country from March 14, citing ‘calls for violence against Russians’ on the platform

Russia’s communications agency Roskomnadzor announced that it will ban Instagram in the country from March 14, according to a statement on the agency’s website. The statement, which was released on Friday, reads: “Roskomnadzor decided to complete the procedure for imposing restrictions on access to Instagram at 00:00 on March 14, providing users with an additional 48 hours of…
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ETSA 2021: India will lead the charge on new tech like Web 3.0 & metaverse, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India will definitely lead the charge on capitalising on the business opportunity emerging from next-generation technologies Web 3.0 and the Metaverse , said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Electronics and IT. Newer opportunities also extend into electronics, deep tech to quantum computing among others, the minister said speaking at the…
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rolls-royce ‘spirit of innovation’ is officially the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft

an electric airplane pioneered by rolls-royce has set two new world speed records, making it officially the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. named ‘spirit of innovation’, the plane reached a top speed of 555.9 km/h (345.4 mph) over 3 kilometers, and 532.1km/h (330 mph) over 15 kilometers when flown at a test site in the UK. the records have since been certified…
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Facebook temporarily allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence against invading Russians or Putin’s death

Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy. The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for…
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