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India First To Partner With Facebook On Disaster Response

9Nov By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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India First To Partner With Facebook On Disaster Response

India is the first country to partner with social networking site Facebook on disaster response, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said today. He invited other technology companies to create tailored solutions for disaster-related challenges. Addressing an event on disaster management, Rijiju said technology can be leveraged in providing quick response and information to people in times of need. Rijiju said the world is moving towards partnerships, where people are proactively partnering with the government in responding to disasters. "This partnership is a benchmark and first of its kind. We are the first government to partner with Facebook on disaster response," he was quoted as saying in a press release issued by the Union home ministry. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home Affairs...

The Story of 21-Year-Old Wunderkind, Who Forced Facebook and Google To Fight For Him

29Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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The Story of 21-Year-Old Wunderkind, Who Forced Facebook and Google To Fight For Him

Michael Sayman, a 17-yo joined Facebook Inc. as an intern and soon became a full-time engineer by the time he reached 18. Now this Wunderkind is leaving to join Alphabet's Google. By the way he is only 21! At Facebook, Sayman joined as a product manager who helped the social media giant to understand how his generation uses their phones, advised on experimental products for teens and helped executives understand trends. At Google, he’ll be a product manager for Assistant, its voice-based service built on the search engine’s giant database. Google Assistant is a top priority for Sundar Pichai. The Mountain View, California-based company is working to embed the tool across a range of its own products and on other companies’ devices, facing stiff competition from Amazon.com’s Alexa and ...

Facebook Loses First Round in Suit Over Storing Biometric Data

6May By reutersNo Comments

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Facebook Loses First Round in Suit Over Storing Biometric Data

Facebook Inc lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it "unlawfully" collected and stored users' biometric data derived from their faces in photographs. The judge presiding over the case in a California federal court on Thursday turned down Facebook's motion seeking dismissal of the suit. Facebook filed the motion arguing that the users could not file a complaint under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) as they had agreed in their user agreement that California law would govern their disputes with the company, and that BIPA does not apply to "tag suggestions." The court found that Illinois law applies and that the plaintiffs have stated a claim under BIPA. The complainants had alleged that Faceb...

VIDEO CALLING ON WHATSAPP FOR IOS AND ANDROID USERS COMING SOON

23Dec By NitishNo Comments

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VIDEO CALLING ON WHATSAPP FOR IOS AND ANDROID USERS COMING SOON

As per the recent reports WhatsApp is testing a new feature for its popular messaging service Video Calls. Video Calls will first come to the iOS platform and then most likely will get to the Android smartphones. It is a natural extension for the Facebook-owned world’s largest messaging service provider to have support for video calls. The video calls on WhatsApp will work on both the Cellular networks (3G / 4G / 5G) and also will be functional on the WIFI network. User will have an option to either make an Audio call from the Whatsapp or opt to make a video call. There is also option as shown in the picture to swap the front and rear camera on the smartphone to make it easier for users. WhatsApp video calls for iOS will come with the update of software to the version ...

Now Facebook Video Can Load Through HTML5 by Default

19Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Now Facebook Video Can Load Through HTML5 by Default

Facebook Inc. announced today that all of its videos will load through HTML5 by default. Like Facebook Many other tech giants are working to kill off Adobe Flash due to the format’s vast bugs and security flaws. “We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform,” Facebook front-end engineer Daniel Baulig wrote in a blog post, “but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.” “We decided to initially launch the HTML5 player to only a small set of browsers, and continuously roll out to more browsers, versions, and operating systems as we improved it and fixed small bugs,” Baulig said. Not only did launching the HTML5 video player make development easier, but it also improved the video experience...