News & Reviews: Facebook
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Mar 23, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic means that health professionals and helpers on the frontlines constantly need to wear masks. Now, tech companies are looking to aid in the efforts by donating large numbers of masks. So far, companies like Apple and Facebook have already done so.
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Mar 23, 2020
It's now day 6 of the Movement Restriction Order and many of us have been staying indoors more than ever. With this, Internet usage have also increased and you may have noticed that your respective Telco and Internet providers network are slower as well. Besides, YouTube and Netflix have already reduced the video quality just so that they can free up the Internet space.
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Mar 20, 2020
MyEG has officially announced that they’ve thanked the Ministry of Health for removing a post on their Facebook page which claimed that that the COVID-19 rapid test kits were fake. Furthermore, MyEG has followed up by stating that the kits, which were manufactured by a Chinese biomedical firm have been cleared for use in various regions including North America, Asia, Europe, and more.
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Mar 20, 2020
Just last week, we managed to have early access to what Facebook desktop dark mode would look like and it looks pretty great. Now, it seems that the company is done with the testing and a few users will be able to opt-in the new design. Here's how it works.
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Mar 19, 2020
Update - The COVID-19 Information Centre has rolled out to Malaysia!
While businesses are either closing temporarily or minimizing human contact with "Contactless Delivery", Facebook has announced a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Centre on their mobile app. The new update will take some time to roll out, but here's what we know about the feature so far.
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Mar 17, 2020
Based on a statement by AndroidHeadlines, it seems that WhatsApp by Facebook will most likely come with self-destructing messages which will delete themselves within an hour or up to a year. With that said, the aforementioned feature is expected to be available only on private chats while group chats will not have it.
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Mar 16, 2020
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture(Motac) is now facing criticism by netizens after allowing the Malaysia Travel Fair 2020 to proceed. Despite the Prime Minister’s call to postpone or cancel all forms of events and gatherings, the event was held at PWTC from 13-15 March and it attracted a large amount of crowd during that period of time.
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Mar 13, 2020
So something cool just happened - when I opened my Facebook page on the desktop, I was given early access to a new Facebook design layout! It seems not only a few selected ones got to experience this as my colleagues don't have it yet. So without further ado, here's the first look of possibly the new Facebook desktop design layout in the near future!
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Mar 10, 2020
In its pursuit of expanding its reach, Facebook has been testing all kinds of features. The company has been focusing on Stories a lot in recent weeks, even in Facebook Messenger, with its latest undertaking being the cross-posting of Stories to Instagram. If the feature works, social media managers will have a little less work when managing the postings.
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Mar 09, 2020
While Facebook can be pretty annoying on showing you ads about something you just talked about, the company have decided that they enforce a temporary ban on ads of medical masks. This is to prevent exploitation by groups or individuals in the wake of COVID-19.
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