The number of active users rose by 19 percent from a year ago to 381 million at the end of September, while paying subscribers -- Spotify's main source of revenue -- also rose by 19 percent to 172 million, the group said.

Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users tried to convince US lawmakers they are safe as worry about Facebook's potential harms spills over to other platforms.

Google remains a centerpiece of online activity, with offerings such as its search engine, ad marketplace, and YouTube video platform that give it extensive global influence.

Haugen, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging Facebook knew its products were harming children's mental health, argued the platform was "unquestionably" fueling hate.

The social media giant has been battling a fresh crisis since former employee Frances Haugen leaked reams of internal studies showing executives knew of their sites' potential for harm, prompting a renewed US push for regulation.

Grab, Emtek and Bukalapak have joined hands to launch an extensive accelerator program dubbed Kolaborasi Nyata Untuk Masa Depan (Tangible Collaboration for the Future), or Kota Masa Dapan, targeting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) across the country.

South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday but failed to put its dummy payload into orbit.

The report from website The Verge, which Facebook refused to confirm, said the embattled company was aiming to show its ambition to be more than a social media site.

The name change will be announced next week, The Verge reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The instrument was designed by Charles Gould for the firm Cary around 1825 and is one of six surviving microscopes associated with the British naturalist, according to auction house Christie's.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice in Silicon Valley hype around the idea of the metaverse, which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.

Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency. 

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president of engineering Mohak Shroff.

Britain's Prince William blasted space tourism on Thursday, saying more attention should be paid to problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

With veteran actor William Shatner of Star Trek becoming the latest celebrity to go into space Wednesday, we look at the recent rush of amateur astronauts.

Anti-Semitism is being disseminated to a younger generation of social media users through platforms like Instagram and TikTok, according to analysis.

The Canadian -- who will forever be known to the sci-fi show's legion of "Trekkies" as Captain James Tiberius Kirk -- will launch from the company's West Texas base at 9 am (1400 GMT), after a day's delay due to high winds.

The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile) wide crater.

Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure.

The dogs, and their masters, potentially lived alongside giant animals, researchers say.

It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic, despite showing signs of abating, has wreaked havoc on the Indonesian economy. Even as the country is on the rebound, the pandemic’s effects are still being felt across industries, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

In February, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta visible from space. 

With many Indonesians barely able to survive the pandemic’s economic fallout, citizen-run initiatives have become a lifeblood for many.

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.

The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said.

Virtual YouTubers, or Vtubers, are entertainers with virtual anime avatars.

Theories about early human migration in Asia could be transformed by the research published in the scientific journal Nature in August, after analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or the genetic fingerprint, of the woman who was given a ritual burial in an Indonesian cave.

What actually caused the outage?

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.