Meta to Discontinue “Facebook News” Feature in UK, France, Germany: Here’s Why

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it will discontinue the “Facebook News” feature on its social media app in the UK, France and Germany, later this year.

Users will still be able to view links to news articles and European news publishers will continue to have access to their Facebook accounts and pages after the change is implemented in December, Meta said.

However, Facebook will not form new commercial deals for news content on “Facebook News”, nor offer product innovations for news publishers in these countries.

“Facebook News”, which curates a feed of news articles, is a dedicated tab in the

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PasarPolis Boosts Gadget Insurance Penetration via Shopee

Insurance Media, JAKARTA – PasarPolis, the leading insurance technology (insurtech) company in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, continues to strengthen its strategic collaboration with Shopee Indonesia to facilitate inclusive access to insurance. In the last three years, purchases of gadgets via e-commerce have had the highest average transaction value compared to other product categories such as fashion and beauty

PasarPolis again presents insurance in the form of gadget protection for people who buy various gadget products through Shopee. Apart from offering a claims process seamless only through the application, this insurance product also offers affordable premium prices, starting from IDR 25,000,

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Catalog of Missing Devices Illustrates Gadgets that Could and Should Exist

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its “Catalog of Missing Devices”—a project that illustrates the gadgets that could and should exist, if not for bad copyright laws that prevent innovators from creating the cool new tools that could enrich our lives.

“The law that was supposed to restrict copying has instead been misused to crack down on competition, strangling a future’s worth of gadgets in their cradles,” said EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow. “But it’s hard to notice what isn’t there. We’re aiming to fix that with this Catalog of Missing Devices. It’s a collection of

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iOS 18 Will Bring Massive Changes to iPhone Users

On the other hand, Apple is reportedly considering rebranding the name Apple ID to Apple Account. This change is said to be carried out at the end of 2024.

Quote Apple InsiderSaturday (2/3/2024), Apple ID is a way for users to log in to Apple Services.

When you have logged in to your Apple ID, users can use Apple’s service ecosystem. Starting from Apple Music, the App Store, to searching for lost devices.

Apple ID itself is now an integral part of everything related to Apple. That said, it’s hard to say since when Apple ID existed.

However, in

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Google: Google’s AI-powered note taking app is now available for all users

From time to time, Google does release certain ‘experimental’ apps. These apps aren’t initially rolled out to all users but a small group of testers and then if they are a ‘success’, then they are rolled out to a wider group of users. NotebookLM is one app that is now rolling out to more users. “NotebookLM, an experimental product in Labs designed to help you do your best thinking, is now available in the US to ages 18 and up,” said Google in a blog post.The app will now use Gemini ProGoogle’s latest AI model.


What is NotebookLM?

NotebookLM

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Nadiem and Franka Spill How to Keep Children Away from the Influence of Gadgets

Jakarta: Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim has three young daughters. Just like most parents, Nadiem doesn’t want his children to be exposed to gadgets from an early age.

Nadiem and his wife Franka Makarim have their own principles in looking at children’s use of gadgets. According to Franka, technology cannot be stopped, but children’s use of gadgets can be controlled.

“We cannot stop the use of technology, but how quickly we introduce it and how, with what, that is what we can control,” said Franka in her Instagram post with Nadiem, quoted Monday, November 20

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Latest 2023 OPPO HP Price List from the A Series

GADGET RECOMMENDATIONS – JAKARTA. Products released in 2022 still meet the price list for the latest 2023 OPPO cellphones from the A Series below. Naturally, OPPO has not yet shown any movement to release new products.

While waiting for the arrival of the newest OPPO cellphone in 2023, all the product choices released in 2022 are clearly still very suitable for use this year.

Some of the most popular names in the latest 2023 OPPO cellphone price list below are OPPO A77s, OPPO A96, and OPPO A17.


OPPO A77s is equipped with a Snapdragon 680 processor, 8GB + 8GB RAM,

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Daftar Ponsel Android dan iPhone yang Tidak Bisa Pakai WhatsApp Lagi Mulai 1 Maret 2024

TRIBUNMANADO.CO.ID – Daftar ponsel baik Android maupun iPhone ada yang tidak lagi bisa menggunakan WhatsApp (WA) mulai 1 Maret 2024. 

Penghapusan WhatsApp pada beberapa ponsel pintar itu karena aplikasi perpesanan instan WA mengumumkan menghentikan dukungan untuk sejumlah smartphone berbasis sistem operasi (OS) Android versi lawas mulai Maret 2024, khususnya bagi perangkat Android versi 5.0 ke bawah.

Maka WhatsApp hanya akan kompatibel untuk perangkat yang menggunakan sistem Android 5.0 Lolipop atau versi yang lebih baru.

Saat ini, kami mendukung dan merekomendasikan penggunaan perangkat berikut:

1. Telepon Android yang menjalankan OS 5.0 dan yang lebih baru
2. iPhone yang menjalankan iOS 12

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