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unsplash Facebook app uses more battery than necessary, and the company knows it The Facebook app purposely drains users’ battery, according to a former employee of Meta, the company that owns the social network. According to data scientist George Hayward, Facebook runs tests in the background while the app is …

Have you ever had the feeling that your cell phone’s battery drained quickly while using the Facebook application? Perhaps this is much more than an impression. According to a former Meta employee, the social network application drains the device’s battery on purpose. Data scientist George Hayward was …

Meta has announced that it will reinstate former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram account after a two-year suspension. The measure, which will take effect “in the coming weeks”, aims not to disrupt public debate on Meta’s platforms, according to a statement from the company. Meta …

Who never got into debt and got stuck when paying, and tried the craziest things, like selling real estate, cars, getting a loan from a loan shark to try to settle the amount? But a woman reached the extreme level to get rid of the debt of 4.2 million Indonesian …

A woman decided that she would not pay a debt of around R$1,417 (US$268), and asked her son to post photos on Facebook where she appeared to be dead. The idea came from deadbeat Liza Dewi Pramita, who lives in Indonesia and didn’t want to repay the money …

Meta and Alphabet have lost the dominance of the digital advertising market they had for years, while the duopoly is hit by fast-growing competition from rivals Amazon, TikTok, Microsoft and Apple. The share of US advertising revenue held by Meta, Facebook’s parent, and Alphabet, which owns Google, is expected to …

The executive claims he never managed to “kill stupid things before they did damage” One of the main creators of Doom and id Software, the legendary programmer John Carmack announced last Friday (16) that he is leaving Meta, the company that owns Facebook🇧🇷 A huge enthusiast of virtual reality, the …

Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Conference on Wednesday (30), Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said he believes Apple’s power as a gatekeeper of the apps market is problematic. “If you look at all the major competing platforms that have ever existed — iOS, Android, Windows — Apple stands …

In early September, Mark Zuckerberg rushed into a Meta lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sat down in front of more than a hundred high-resolution cameras, and prepared to prove his metaverse critics wrong. The photo shoot was designed to generate a more realistic avatar of Meta’s chief executive, as the social …

Technology HR departments have come out of the depths. After years of throwing money at anyone with a computer science degree or IT experience, companies are having to shed employees. Amazon and Facebook owner Meta are leading the pack in massive job cuts, with more than 10,000 each planned, while …