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WhatsApp rolls out feature to enable users find groups by contact name

With the new feature, users can get a list of all their recent groups in common with a contact by entering their name within the search bar

Mark Zuckerberg brings personalised digital avatars to WhatsApp users

Your avatar is a digital version of you that can be created from billions of combinations of diverse hair styles, facial features, and outfits

Meta, Bharti Airtel to bring 'world's longest' subsea cable to India

World's longest subsea cable system aims to provide faster internet to almost 3 billion people

Meta Quest Pro's new update adds mixed reality capture

With the new update, users can now record and show off those mixed reality moments, while using applications that merge their actual reality with a virtual one

WhatsApp starts working on 21 new emojis for future update: Report

In the latest beta build available on the Play Store, eight emojis have been updated, and 21 new emojis will soon be made available to all beta testers

Meta to roll out new mode in VR game to let players make their own levels

Sandbox mode will launch on December 14 within the VR battle royale game

Flipkart, Polygon partner to speed up Web3 & Metaverse e-commerce use-cases

To set up Blockchain-e-commerce Centre of Excellence towards this end

Flipkart joins Polygon to launch Metaverse use cases in e-commerce space

During the festive sale, Flipkart also partnered with eDAO to launch a virtual shopping experience in the metaverse called Flipverse

Meta purges 32 mn pieces of bad content on FB, Instagram in India in Oct

Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms, with more than 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports

India's revised data protection bill 'promising, clear': Meta's Nick Clegg

'Real process of openness' and listening to feedback in preparing legislation, he says

Metaverse needs brilliance of Indian developers, creative community: Clegg

Metaverse can deliver huge economic benefits to India and requires the brilliance, ingenuity of developers and creative community of the country, a senior official of the social media giant said on Tuesday. While speaking at the launch of industry chamber FICCI's XR Open Source Fellowship Program, former deputy prime minister of UK and Meta's global affairs president Nick Clegg said the enormous appetite, ingenuity for engineering and entrepreneurialism for new knowledge is immensely striking in India and it is the reason for India being one of the great pioneering nations in technological innovations. He said that Metaverse in one sense may sound like science fiction but it is the natural evolution of the internet. "The metaverse won't be built by one company alone. Through programmes like XR Open Source, we will support Indian developers working on these exciting technologies. With their talent, insight and effort, we hope to ensure the next generation of internet technologies are

Sony unveils Mocopi motion-tracking bands for Metaverse on smartphones

Mocopi is a set of six motion-tracking bands, which lets users animate and operate avatars inside various metaverse apps on Android smartphones and iPhones

Meta pledges $1 mn for extended reality fellowship programme in India

Initiative will help developers contribute to open-source projects on XR technology and lay the foundation for affordable, appropriate India-specific solutions localised to Indic languages

Meta supports FICCI, NeGD to train 100 India developers in metaverse tech

Meta announced it is supporting industry body FICCI with $1 million for the XROS fellowship programme that will help 100 Indian developers working on XR technologies for the future of metaverse

YouTube removed 1.7 mn videos in India in July-Sept, most in world

Around 5.6 million videos were removed globally for violating platform's community guidelines

Here's how Oxford zeroes in on its word of the year as people vote for 2022

As OUP leaves the word of the year to a people's vote, here's how the process works

WhatsApp announces 'Message Yourself' feature: What is it and how it works

The 'Message Yourself' feature is a 1:1 chat window on WhatsApp for the user to transferring media, documents, contacts, and more to self

India's requests to Meta for user data up slightly at 55,497 in H1 of 2022

Requests from governments across the globe for user data were up 10.5% to 237,414

Musk's top-down approach will harm Twitter, says Manish Maheshwari

Large platforms can also go into exponential decay if the network effect stops working in their favour, Maheshwari said

In a first, people to vote to choose Oxford Word of the Year 2022

For the first time, people from across the world will vote to choose the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, Oxford Languages has announced. A team of expert lexicographers have narrowed down a longlist of worthy contestants to a final choice of three words -- metaverse, #IStandWith, and goblin mode. The voting, which started on November 21, will close on December 2. Last year 'Vax' was adjudged word of the year. "2022 has been a year defined by opening back up. However, although we have finally been able to physically reunite and come together again, our world somehow feels more divided than ever," Oxford Languages said. "In recognition of this shift, we wanted to open up the final step of our Word of the Year selection process to the true arbiters of language: people around the world... For the first time in its history, the 2022 Word of the Year will be chosen by the public," a statement said. The three words are each relevant to the year in a different way. In 'metaverse', there i