Facebook and Instagram appears to be coming back online as of 12:30 p.m. ET after a nationwide outage. Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according to Down Detector.
It’s day 2 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first round and today’s challengers are WhatsApp vs Dark Sky. Will Mark Zuckerberg win again? That’s up to you.
Welcome to Gizmodo’s first annual March Madness bracket. We want you to help us figure out which app is the greatest of all time. We’ve nominated 32 competitors, and two of them will go head-to-head each day until one app is chosen to wear the crown for eternity.
Facebook plans to “deprecate” its News tab for users in the United States and Australia by April, according to an announcement published Thursday night. What does that mean? As best we can tell, it means Facebook doesn’t want anyone to use the platform for news anymore and will be killing its dedicated News tab.
Google launched a new AI image generator earlier this month that, for all intents and purposes, was incapable of generating consistent images of white people. As you might expect, rightwing influencers wasted no time in noticing this issue and promptly accused the tech giant of reverse racism.
Reddit reportedly signed a $60 million deal with Google to allow its online communities to be scraped for AI training data, according to Reuters Thursday.
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Mark Zuckerberg hopped on Instagram Tuesday to post a detailed and obviously rehearsed take-down of the Apple Vision Pro, the iPhone maker’s $3,500 headset. Meta’s chief trash talker had a top-line message he wants the “fanboys” to hear: this thing stinks, and you should spend your money on his headset instead.
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