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Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents of teenagers’ parents from DigiLocker and use it to avail parental consent, people aware of the matter, told ET. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 years of age are allowed on many social media platforms. For users in India between 13 and 18 years of age to access any platform or avail services on the internet, apps may now have to get parental consent by verifying the identity of the children and their parents. If the parent agrees to share the data with the social media platform, she will have to enter a one-time password to provide consent.

Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online

A Thai Cabinet minister is threatening to try to shut down Facebook in the country, saying the social media platform does not do enough to screen the advertisements it runs, leaving people vulnerable to costly scams

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it was launching the web version of its new text-first social media platform Threads, in a bid to retain professional users and gain an edge over rival X, formerly Twitter.

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Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in nearly 100 languages, as well as full speech-to-speech translation for 35 languages, combining technology that was previously available only in separate models. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he envisions such tools facilitating interactions between users from around the globe in the metaverse, the set of interconnected virtual worlds on which he is betting the company's future.Meta is making the model available to the public for non-commercial use, the blog post said. The world's biggest social media company has released a flurry of mostly free AI models this year, including a large language model called Llama that poses a serious challenge to proprietary models sold by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google. Zuckerberg says an open AI ecosystem works to Meta's advantage, as the company has more to gain by effectively crowd-sourcing the creation of consumer-facing tools for its social platforms than by charging for access to the models. Nonetheless, Meta faces similar legal questions as the rest of the industry around the training data ingested to create its models. In July, comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against both Meta and OpenAI, accusing the companies of using their books as training data without permission. For the SeamlessM4T model, Meta researchers said in a research paper that they gathered audio training

ANI, Avdeev said that the mission will be a fruitful lunar program for India and it “will definitely be a great success". “Everybody in India and also myself are all eagerly waiting for tomorrow's event in the lunar orbit. I am sure that it will be a success for the Indian lunar program and the rover will land safely and start functioning...," said the ANI report quoting Avdeev.

Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday set foot on home soil for the first time since 2008, returning from self-exile to a Bangkok jail just hours before his allies attempt to form a government after weeks of political deadlock. Thaksin, the billionaire figurehead of the populist juggernaut Pheu Thai Party, fled abroad 15 years ago before he was jailed in absentia for abuse of power, two years after the military overthrew him and accused him of corruption and disloyalty to the powerful monarchy, which he denied. Thaksin appeared briefly with family members at a private jet terminal at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport, smiling and waving to hundreds of ecstatic supporters, before he was escorted by police to the Supreme Court, then to a prison to serve a term of eight years. As he emerged from the airport wearing a black suit, red tie and yellow lapel pin bearing a royal insignia, Thaksin bowed to the crowd in a traditional «wai» greeting before kneeling to pay respects before a portrait of the king and queen. «For the past 17 years, you felt isolated, lonely, troubled and missing home but you persevered,» said Thaksin's sister Yingluck, whose three-year stint as prime minister also ended in a coup, a criminal conviction and self-exile. «I will be strong and persevere.

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Thailand authorities have issued a warning to the social media giant Facebook, threatening to seek a criminal court order to sever its operations in the nation, over the rampant investment and cryptocurrency scam ads.

Meta Platforms on Tuesday asked a court in Norway to stop a fine that the country's data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching user privacy, in a case that could have wider European implications. Since Aug. 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a practice common to Big Tech. The company is asking for a temporary injunction against the order, which imposes a daily fine through to Nov.

Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the U.S. dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stablecoin after Facebook, now Meta Platforms, unveiled Libra in June 2019. The move, which comes as PayPal transitions to a new CEO announced last week, seems risky after Facebook's stablecoin was crushed by political opposition, and as regulators home in on the crypto sector following several meltdowns. But PayPal is in a stronger position than Facebook, said former officials, executives and analysts. Policymakers are more familiar with stablecoins, crypto tokens typically pegged to a fiat currency, than they were in 2019. A push to create federal stablecoin regulations has also helped boost their legitimacy in the eyes of lawmakers.

Also read: Chandrayaan-3 Update: Three days to landing on Moon; ISRO shares timing. See here The live coverage of this historic event is scheduled to commence on August 23, 2023, at 5:27 PM. Viewers can watch the soft landing live on various platforms, including the ISRO Website, ISRO's YouTube channel, ISRO's Facebook page, and DD National TV channel as well as National Geographic TV channel.

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Thailand is planning to seek a court-issued shutdown order against Facebook unless it takes steps to deal with alleged investment and crypto scam ads on its platform.

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Narendra Modi. ISRO said the Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on August 23, 2023, around 18:04 hours IST.

Justin Trudeau on Monday blasted Meta for banning domestic news from its platforms as wildfires rage, saying up-to-date information during a crisis is crucial. «Facebook is putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety,» he told a televised news conference in the Atlantic province of Prince Edward Island, saying the company's actions were «inconceivable.» Trudeau's comments represent the latest government attack on Meta, which this month started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada in response to a new law requiring internet giants to pay for news articles. Federal Liberal cabinet ministers last week described the ban as reckless and irresponsible.

Montana Bridges, have been reported missing, prompting an Amber Alert in Michigan. The infants were abducted on Monday morning by two unidentified Black women, media reports said. Michigan State Police have revealed that the suspects fled the scene in a black Jeep Cherokee with chrome trim around the passenger windows, bearing the license plate EHD1130. The vehicle was last spotted near the Quality Inn on Plymouth Road, between Merriman and Middlebelt roads. The Amber Alert was officially issued at 5:54 a.m. According to the grandmother of the twins, Lolita Vann, the incident unfolded as the family was staying in a hotel due to a recent break-in at their home. Vann explained that a woman had contacted her daughter through Facebook, offering assistance with diapers and other resources as she was a new mother. The woman visited the hotel the previous night to provide gift cards for essentials. However, when the mother briefly left the room to use a vending machine, she returned to find the twins missing, the reports said. Authorities are actively seeking information regarding the whereabouts of the missing twins. Individuals with any relevant information are urged to contact the Livonia police at 734-466-2470, extension 2, or call 911. Police advise against approaching the suspected vehicle and instead recommend contacting law enforcement immediately.

Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander module with a rover in its belly is expected to touch down on the surface of the Moon around 6.04 pm on Wednesday, ISRO had said on Sunday. Live actions will be available on the ISRO website, its YouTube channel, Facebook, and public broadcaster DD National TV from 17:27 IST on Aug 23, 2023. The Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on August 20.