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Certification in Web 3.0, Social Media and Metaverse program at IIT Delhi

The program is uniquely intended for graduates from any background looking for a lifelong career in the Web 3.0, social media, or Metaverse domains, as well as experts in the software and IT industry

Centre to act against Twitter on video of Manipur women being paraded naked

In the horrific video, two women are seen being paraded naked and molested by a group of men, who then drags them to a field. The women were allegedly gang-raped later

China man kept 7 cows in apartment, asked to remove animals by neighbours

The animals were present in the flat only for a day before neighbours annoyed by their mooing and smell apprised officials

Threads shows Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is just another faddist

There's a good chance both Threads and ChatGPT will become irrelevant over time, thanks to the erratic approach of its CEOs

15 websites selling e-cigarettes under scanner health ministry's scanner

The Union Health Ministry has sent notices to 15 websites selling e-cigarettes, which is banned in India, directing them to stop advertisement and sale of the products, official sources said. Six more websites are on the radar, they said, adding the ministry is also closely monitoring the advertisement and sale of e-cigarettes on social media and might issue notices to them soon. Of the 15 websites which have been issued the "takedown notice", four have stopped operations while the rest have not responded yet, an official source told PTI. "If they don't respond and comply with the law, the health ministry will write to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for taking down these websites. Legal action will also be taken against these websites accordingly," the source said. The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act came into force in 2019. The health ministry's not

Twitter cash flow remains negative, rate limit to be changed, says Musk

Separately, the billionaire announced late Saturday the platform will increase the number of tweets verified accounts can see each day by 50%, following complaints from users

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US lawmakers wary of Zuckerberg's Threads but about half have signed up

Members of Congress for now appear to be largely putting those concerns aside rather than risk missing out of a popular new communications tool

Musk still owes us $1.6 mn for legal bills: Ex-Twitter executives

The group - led by ex-Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal - says the legal bills accrued in connection with lawsuits and government probes of the company's activities while they ran it

Meta's Twitter challenger 'Threads' to raise stakes for Snap, Pinterest

Amid gains in megacap tech stocks, Meta has soared 161% this year, second only to Nvidia Corp. among components of the Nasdaq 100 Index

Meta Platforms Inc to fight EU charges over Facebook marketplace abuse

EU watchdogs alleged that Meta imposed unfair trading terms that enable it to use data on competing online classified ad services for its Marketplace platform

Threads breaches the 100 million signups-mark in just 5 days of its launch

It means that Meta's Threads has become the fastest-growing app in history outpacing ChatGPT and TikTok

Order on limiting Biden govt's contact with social media companies refused

A federal judge in Louisiana refused Monday to put a temporary hold on his own order limiting Biden administration officials contacts with social media companies. Biden administration attorneys had asked U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe to stay his own order, which was issued last Tuesday, while they pursue an appeal. That order came in a lawsuit filed by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, as well as a conservative website owner and four individual critics of government COVID-19 policies. The lawsuit claimed the administration, in effect, censored free speech by using threats of regulatory action or protection while pressuring companies to remove what it deemed misinformation. COVID-19 vaccines, legal issues involving President Joe Biden's son Hunter and election fraud allegations were among the topics spotlighted in the lawsuit. Doughty was nominated to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump. His injunction blocked the Department of Healt

Threads of engagement

Meta's new platform needs a clear business model

Threads to add $8 bn to Meta annual revenue by 2025, says analyst

Instagram's new app, designed as a direct rival to Elon Musk's Twitter, signed up 100 million users in the days since Meta launched the service last Wednesday

Elon Musk claims lawyers overbilled in fight to make him buy Twitter

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, among most profitable firms in US, exploited a brief, vulnerable period just as Musk was closing $44 bn deal, according to complaint filed in San Francisco state court

The cry of the wounded in movies reflects real life in India

'Aakrosh' (1981) depicted how India's tribal people, almost 8% of the population, are dehumanised by the state and the law

Twitter accuses Threads of using its trade secrets, threatens legal action

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a "copycat" app. Since launching Threads Wednesday night, Meta's new app has collected tens of millions of sign ups. The app, which was created by the company's Instagram team, arrives at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk's raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for USD 44 billion. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the report of Spiro's letter on Threads Thursday afternoon, writing, "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee that's just not a thing". In the letter, which Semafor first reported on Thursday, Spiro s

Threads: 30 million join Meta's Twitter rival, says Mark Zuckerberg

Text-based app seeks to rival Twitter, will be an extension of Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg posts first tweet in 11 years in Threads jibe at Musk

Meta's Instagram officially unveiled Threads, considered most potent threat yet to struggling social media service Musk owns. Hours later, Zuckerberg tweeted photo of identical Spider-Men facing off