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Facebook Inc. has announced its renaming to Metaverse (Mata).   The announcement highlights Facebook’s intention to stake its future on a new computing platform — the metaverse, an idea born in the imaginations of sci-fi novelists.   In Meta’s vision, people will congregate and communicate by entering virtual environments, whether …

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening.       All three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure.               “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll …

Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms. The news code legislation had been fiercely opposed by the US tech giants. Last week Facebook blocked all news content to Australians over the row, but reversed its decision this week …