If you want to bury a controversy, come to India. There is a convergence of interests here. A government acquiring a reputation for minority-baiting and a social media company being charged with allow...

Ever since Facebook rebranded itself as Meta last month, a concept that was first mooted in a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson has become perhaps the most discussed and debated term in cy...

A few days ago, the public got a glimpse into Mark Zuckerberg’s fear that Facebook might shrivel into irrelevance. In a conference call to discuss Facebook’s financial results, Zuckerberg...

What is metaverse? A space where physical and digital worlds come together and representations of people — avatars — interact. How important is Meta to metaverse? Facebook or Meta&rsquo...

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, downloaded a popular new app, Phhhoto, on August 8, 2014, and took a selfie. Other Facebook executives and product managers soon followed suit. It th...

Facebook wants its users to like it again. The tech titan’s chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a rechristening last week: the holding company behind the digital behemoth would n...

A few days ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has been renamed Meta and the focus will be on developing a metaverse experience, a concept borrowed from sci-fi touchstones like Snow Crash and...

Mind the minders Sir — The Supreme Court order for an independent probe into the possible use of the Israeli spyware, Pegasus, to spy on Indian citizens is welcome (“Fresh air”, Oct...

Facebook rose to prominence over the past two decades with some of the world’s most recognisable branding: a big blue-and-white letter F. No longer. On Thursday, the social networking giant too...

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